Wow !!!
We haven't had any Strictly press releases from "he should not be named" for a few years.
Time was the papers were full of Cowell stable nobodies (former X-Factor or BGT alumni) "being lined up for / has turned down" Strictly
Most ridiculous one was the Ashleigh and Pudsey one, where they had just won BGT, and her "prize" was performing at the Royal Variety show, which meant she physically could not have done Strictly anyway, whatever the circumstances.
Maybe the X-Factor auditions are not going so well !!