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lgbt
Entertainment
Strictly Come Dancing
Ann Widdecombe is wrong – Strictly’s same-sex pairing is exactly what families should be watching
Nicola Adams helped change the world.Performing with Katya Jones in front of 10million people, she was part of the first competitive routine by a same-sex couple in Strictly Come Dancing history.Joyfully dancing a fast-paced quickstep that scored 7s across the board, it was a huge moment – not least because there was so much predictable but exhausting nay-saying in the run-up to it happening.Yep, as is the case whenever someone from a minority group so much as breathes on prime-time television, there were Ofcom complaints, there were tweets that started with the killer phrase, ‘I’m all for equality, but…’, and, of course, there was Ann Widdecombe. The national sweetheart of bigots.
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