Well pre-production team to be precise. Only gives me information after her work is complete so unfortunately I had no insight into who the celebs would be beforehand. It really was panic stations at one point though as the male celebs were very thin on the ground. A couple dropped out quite late in the day. As Oti was a new signing she had to have a partner and therefore Joanne lost out but had they known the struggle they'd have getting male celebs Oti would never have gotten recruited in the first place. Anthony and his injured shoulder was definitely not in the original line up.

Thanks for sharing, that's all very interesting.

Perhaps the production team might reconsider the awful VTs, dreadful themes, and ridiculous music choices in a bid to get more celebs to sign on the dotted line?

If only! But unfortunately whilst Louise Rainbow is in charge the "comedy"clips, themes and props will remain.

Very interesting Doesn't bode well for the quality of male contestants in future series though - they were already scratching at the bottom of the barrel when they signed Mark Wright

how interesting - thank you

poor Jo, feel a little bad for her but I understand how they couldnt drop Oti having just signed her

Any idea who the couple where who dropped out?

No idea who dropped out other than with one of them it was a scheduling problem as they had other commitments that didn't fit well round Strictly.