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Coventry Telegraph
|September 19, 2025
COMEDIAN CHRIS MCCAUSLAND IS THE CURRENT STRICTLY COME DANCING CHAMP. MARION McMULLEN LOOKS AT OTHER COMEDY STARS WITH RHYTHM NOW THE TV DANCE CONTEST IS BACK
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1989 PLEASURE ISLAND: Benny Hill joined dancing girls on a desert island stage set complete with palm trees. He once said: "If you can mix glamour and gags then you can catch the audience twice over."
1971 TUTU MUCH: Ronnie Corbett tackled some ballet moves for the London Palladium's Christmas pantomime Cinderella. He once joked: "I leapt onto the dance floor and did my rather racy impression of John Travolta. I suppose it must have been the animal in me. Well, I had a ferret down my trousers."
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