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Yes, Covid restrictions means reality TV show? Which contestants are bunking down in a cold Welsh FASHIONISTA Dis odd really because ballroom castle, but we’re all still glued to our screens. dancing is not exactly a mass My friend AJ Pritchard is a contestant, and my GET UP, DRESS UP pursuit. But it’s the chance to money is on him to mount a challenge to be STYLE EDIT watch a bunch of celebrities King of the Castle. AJ and his brother, Love OK! LOVES trying to tango that makes Saturday nights the Island’s Curtis, invited us for a sneak preview FASHION SPY highlight of our week – in my house anyway! of their stunning new home (p30) just before BEAUTY EDIT Good Morning Britain’s political editor heading to Wales. And Curtis confessed he’d BEAUTY BUZZ Ranvir Singh has already taken the dance floor be voting for AJ to do every single trial! That’s by storm. From parliament to the paso doble, sibling rivalry for you! Last year, my eldest she’s wowed us all with her sparkling debut. tricked his brother into trying some dried LIFESTYLE Personally, I don’t know how she does it. As a locusts he’d bought from the supermarket. single mum, she’s up at 3am for work and still I wonder if the Duke and Duchess of ANDCHAT manages to perfect her dance while caring for Cambridge are fans of the show. They’ve been OK! REVIEWS her son, doing the shopping and walking the busy during this second OK! ICONS dog. We’re rooting for you, Ranvir! lockdown, with Kate OK! HEALTH And talking of supermums, our cover star comforting families of OK! DRINKS Kate Ferdinand chats to us (p18) about her the armed forces (see OK! RECIPES impending arrival and the close bond she p12). But when they OK! TRAVEL hopes will grow between the new baby and relax at home, I bet they CHARLOTTE SELIGMAN OK! HOTSPOT her three stepchildren, who she’s already very squirm at the witchetty OK! EDITOR OK! STARS close to. That will be one hectic household! grubs like the rest of us! charloe_seligman OK! LIFELESSONS VISITOURWEBSITEWWWOKCOUK /OKMAGAZINEUK @OK_MAGAZINE @OK_MAG PHOTOS: DAVID VENNI , GETTY, @INGLOTUK, KARIS KENNEDY/TESCO, LORNA ROACH, NICKY JOHNSTON/CAMERA PRESS, JOHNSTON/FUTURE PU VENNI , GETTY, PHOTOS: DAVID WWW.OK.CO.UK 3 4 DANCINGQUEEN ‘ITWOULDBE HILARIOUSIF IWASHITBY THESTRICTLY CURSE’ RANVIRSINGHTAKESTIMEOUTFROMHER HECTICSCHEDULETOCHATEXCLUSIVELYTOOK! ABOUT“SIZZLING”STRICTLYDANCEPARTNERGIOVANNI PERNICEBODYCONFIDENCEANDWORK-LIFEBALANCE t happens every year. A celebrity contestant Here, Ranvir, who lives with her eight-year-old makes their sparkling debut on the Strictly son Tushaan – from her marriage to ex-husband ballroom floor and their life is transformed. Ranjeet – and their new puppy Shmizzles, shares And we’re not just talking about the beautiful her Strictly story so far… Iballgowns. It’s like the famous glitter ball has a magical, hypnotic effect. From parliament to the paso doble – you Good Morning Britain political editor Ranvir are smashing it on the dance floor, Ranvir! Singh, 43, can vouch for this. She is one of the You must love every minute of Strictly… lucky ones who, five weeks in, is still living in the I do, and I feel very, very lucky to be part of star-studded parallel universe that the show. But it’s a very peculiar is BBC One’s Strictly Come feeling, standing in front of Dancing. On planet Strictly, you With her the judges and hearing their spend your days quite literally in son, comments and scores. I can’t the hands of a professional dancer, Tushaan believe it’s my life sometimes. But surrounded by sequins. Tough, but it is – every minute. I’m counting we guess someone has to do it. the steps in my sleep! “It’s totally surreal,” Ranvir admits. “I don’t feel like myself when I’m How are you feeling physically out on the stage. It’s taking some – you look like you’re working getting used to!” hard… Given that she’s already topped Well my hip hurts today. There’s the leaderboard, we think Ranvir always an ache. And I’ve been might have a few more weeks to wearing slippers on my feet under get used to it… which could well my newsdesk on GMB as the balls take her all the way to the final. of my feet are so sore! Susanna And that really would be magical. [Reid] keeps asking what’s WWW.OK.CO.UK 5 wrong with me, but I swear My son is now at an age she’s blanked all the bad where he appreciates what stuff out. Strictly is quite I’m doing and can be really an extreme physical excited about it with me. I’m experience. To really do trying my best but I do feel it justice, you’ve got to go like there is a good energy for it and commit to the in my life at the moment. training. It’s a bit like Bear I feel very blessed. Grylls but with sequins and a ballroom! You’ve got to Does being single mean be completely dedicated. you might fall victim to the famous Strictly curse? Clearly you are. You’re If I got hit by the curse, it a working single mum would be a bloody miracle! to your son Tushaan, too. Oh my God, that would be How do you manage hilarious. Do you know most to fit it all in? of the dancers were born Well they do say, if you in 1990 or something? I’m want a job done properly, old enough to be their ask a busy mum! It’s so true. mother! It’s very optimistic Because I have so much and complimentary that to balance, I have to anyone would think I would stay focused and alert. be struck by the curse. You know, we learnt the foxtrot dance in two days? You and Giovanni work Unbelievable, right? I so well together – you’re obviously work well under sensational on the dance pressure. An imminent floor. Is it the same when deadline might make Dancing the you’re off camera? some people feel sick and paso doble You know, Giovanni is nervous, but I thrive in that to Beyoncé so amazing, he doesn’t situation. Don’t get me need me to be sensational! wrong though, there is an He sizzles all by himself. element of dread and It doesn’t matter whether nerves just before I go on I’m in the room or not, stage. But the difference is it ‘GIOVANNIISSO he’s sizzling away! Seriously doesn’t make me shrink though, the guy is all about into a tiny ball, it powers AMAZING–HESIZZLES the performance. In the me to rise up. I can handle paso doble, it’s all about it, because that’s my job – to ALLBYHIMSELF’ brooding and sultry looks, present on live TV. At least and the chemistry. Then, I could bring that to the in the quickstep, I played table, because apart from the shy girl and he was that, I had nothing else to offer Giovanni, the poor chap! flirty and romantic while convincing me to dance with him. I’ve played the Dreamgirl who’s in love Now in your forties and single after a marriage with her manager and then in last week’s cha-cha-cha, break-up a few years ago, do you feel like Strictly I was rotating my hips in a bar when he spots me has come at the perfect time in your life? and can’t help but dance with me! The dances are Absolutely, 100% true. Sometimes in life, you feel like all about being romantic and, of course, we have to you’re going against the tide somehow. You’re trying to make them convincing. get things done and nothing goes the way you want it. And then out of nowhere, something changes and it all And it does look very convincing! works out. I definitely feel like this was the right time for Well, you’ve got to be game when you take part me to do Strictly.