There's a joy I feel when watching Strictly that I don’t get from other TV shows.
Disgust and ridicule are two things that people with dwarfism face every day. All too often, they are dehumanised for ‘entertainment’ in films and television, but this year, another Paralympian, Ellie Simmonds, proved everyone wrong when she was partnered with Nikita Kuzmin.
Who can forget Rose Ayling-Ellis? I know I can’t. I loved watching Rose every week, and it made me reflect on ways that I was excluding people in my own life. Ever since her spectacular win, I always add subtitles to all my social media video content. It takes me a lot longer, but it's not worth the guilt I feel if I don’t do it, especially after supporting Rose for all those weeks.
When boxing champion Nicola Adams and her partner Katya Jones became Strictly’s first same-sex pairing in 2020, the show had its highest first-day ratings in three years. The pair may have been forced to withdraw due to Covid, but despite the backlash from homophobic fans,Star John Whaite with my beloved Johannes Radebe in 2021. The result? The greatest Paso the world has ever seen.
This year comedian Jayde Adams was paired up with Karen Hauer after requesting to dance with a woman when she signed up for the show. And, once again, I was left crying on my sofa, watching her perform her epic flash dance routine in a leotard. As a plus-size woman, it was a statement, one designed to prove that television and the dance space need to embrace body positivity as well. To see her dance around that stage without being covered up with a wrap dress was so cathartic for me and even more so to know that my mum was watching it with me.
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