Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street

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In 2021, Horwood released the single a Christmas single "It's Christmas, Merry Christmas!'" with Rietta Austin, charted at 21 on British iTunes. [69] Horwood announced a duets album with Austin, scheduled for release in 2023. [70] Publications [ edit ]

I didn’t want to do it,” he admitted. “I didn’t think, for me, celebrities could learn to dance what professional dancers do all their lives. Craig, who was born and raised in Australia, turned to exercise and dance after not doing well in school. Craig and his fiancé Jonathan Myring. (Image credit: Karwai Tang/WireImage) He's performed a musical of his lifeCraig has previously spoken to WalesOnline about the marriage, saying: “Despite the perfect wedding, the marriage, as it turned out, was not quite so flawless.

BBC Two – Strictly – It Takes Two, Series 9, Episode 11, Craig on Illegal Lifts". BBC . Retrieved 11 March 2020. Horwood has been a member of the judging panel on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing since its inception in 2004. [49] He has a reputation for being the harshest of the judges and is often the recipient of jeering and booing from the studio audience; [50] he also received criticism for his apparent bias towards Emma Bunton in the fourth series of the competition. [51] Horwood is known for stringently applying rules, as for example when marking down for an 'illegal lift' in some dances if the lady's foot leaves the floor. [52]

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His schedule is getting busier so he will be cherishing each moment in his Northamptonshire home that he can get. Revel is Horwood's middle name; it is not double-barrelled. [10] In his autobiography, Horwood reveals that at the age of 17, he made money by appearing as a drag queen in bars and clubs and that his relationship with an unnamed celebrity was akin to prostitution. [11] Career [ edit ] Theatre [ edit ] West End and UK [ edit ]

Interview with Craig Revel Horwood; it ran from 4 December 2008 to 18 April 2009 at the Comedy Theatre. Craig’s other West End Theatre credits include Munkustrap in Cats, Miss Saigon at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Harry in Crazy for You at the Prince Edward Theatre. Craig directed and choreographed Strictly Ballroom The Musical, which is currently touring the UK and Ireland, and the 2016/17 tour of Sister Act The Musical as well as the Strictly Come Dancing Live tour. He also choreographed the film Paddington 2. We did the first show and it wasn’t too bad, by the third week it had captured the hearts and minds of the nation.” Bryony Gordon, "The Queen, Camilla and Craig", Daily Telegraph, 28 October 2011. Accessed 25 December 2011.Inspired by Joan Collins’ look in Dynasty, Lavish wore huge shoulder pad dresses, six-inch stilettos and an incredible auburn wig. "I used to go to clubs and sing as myself but people weren't interested," Craig told The Mirror. “And then I turned up as a woman and suddenly everyone was interested. Thankfully, in the Eighties, big hair and shoulder pads were in.” One of the things I find most interesting is when the most reserved celebrities, usually those who are not performers, or actors who hide behind their characters, start to peel off the layers of inhibition. Can you be a good dancer if you don’t have that freedom of personality? “You can, you just have to be taught to release it. If you self-judge, you will always freeze, you will never be able to do anything.” It’s about, he says, “just getting up and doing it, not worrying about what people think. There is no fear, I don’t believe in fear.” Dancing is natural for humans, he adds: “Dance comes before language. It’s about the rhythm of getting on or off a train, or on to an escalator. That’s just movement, just rhythm in life.” During 2022 Craig traveled up and down the country with his one-man show The All Balls and Glitter Tour. Other celebs rumoured to join Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke on the panel are Kevin Clifton and Stacey Dooley (Image: PA) A choreographer and director in the West End, Revel Horwood had been brought in as a fourth judge at the last minute and he is one of the show’s last survivors, alongside presenter Tess Daly and Du Beke. How long will he do it for? “I don’t have any intention of leaving.” He loves what he calls his “Saturday job”, and how inclusive it is, as a mainstream show. “That does teach the world, in all seriousness, that it’s OK to be different. It’s OK if you want to wear heels; it’s OK for men to wear pink sequins.”