Stop dancing.. for a year

Call to shelve next Strictly series to save its reputation

- BY SHELLEY SPADONI

Tess and Claudia hugging on their last show

STRICTLY Come Dancing should be scrapped for a year to save its reputation, says an executive who helped to launch the show.

Sam Hodges, an ex-BBC TV head of communications, thinks shelving it in a Glastonbury-style fallow year would allow new energy to return.