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The UK TV’s compulsive viewing show Strictly Come Dancing is coming back for Season 21 and will feature yet another same-sex pair in the series: actor Layton Williams and pro dancer Nikita Kuzmin.
Williams is best known for performing in West End theatre productions of Billy Elliot, Hairspray, Rent, and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. He also starred in the TV show Bad Education, and recently narrated the gay British dating series I Kissed a Boy.
Kuzmin is a dancer and choreographer who was cast as a pro dancer in season 19 of Strictly Come Dancing, where he competed alongside Tilly Ramsay and placed sixth overall. He returned for season 20 and was paired up with Ellie Simmonds, this time finishing in 10th place.
In season 21 they will be the only same-sex couple “I’m happy so long as it’s a guy,” Williams said in his introduction video for the show. “I’ve said I want to dance with a man, I want to be thrown around.” After being paired up with Kuzmin, the actor added: “He is going to whip me into shape and keep me on the straight and narrow. I do like to think I know what I am doing and do the most, but I really don’t have a clue!”
PS If you don’t live in the UK you can view the show via a VPN
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