Olympic boxer Nicola Adams, who won a gold medal for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, and again in Rio in 2016, will make Strictly Come Dancing history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Adams, who is now retired from the sport, was asked whether the idea to have a female partner came from her or the show’s producers, she explained: ‘I asked the show about it.
They wanted to know if I wanted to be on the show and I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it, but I want to dance with another female dance partner.”Strictly has previously featured two male professionals dancing together in a one-off routine, when Johannes Radebe and Graziano di Prima performed to Emeli Sande’s Shine last.