Strictly Come Dancing’s Camilla Dallerup has said the show needs the age and experience of Arlene Phillips.

Camilla told the Daily Mirror she will miss Arlene, 66, who has been replaced on the judging panel on the BBC show by 30-year-old Alesha Dixon.

The Danish dancer, 35, said: “I have a lot of respect for Arlene and feel privileged I got to work with her, everyone will miss her.”

She added: “It’s important to keep older people on programmes like Strictly because it was fantastic to have someone with so much experience. You can’t beat it.

“I hate to think her going was to do with her age. That would be very sad. Arlene always got the best out of the dancers. Alesha has big shoes to fill.

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STRICTLY Come Dancing star Camilla Dallerup hit back yesterday after Arlene Phillips dubbed her an “ice maiden”.

Camilla, 34, insisted the judge was the only one creating a freeze on the BBC1 set.

Acid-tongued Arlene, 64, last week claimed Camilla’s partner, Holby City actor Tom Chambers, would struggle to “melt” her.

But Camilla said the only cold front on the Strictly set was in the atmosphere around Arlene.

And the blonde bombshell vowed to answer her critics by winning the show with hunky Tom, 31.

She told TV Biz: “I can’t believe she called me an ice maiden.

“I’m not too upset though, because I know I’m not — and I’m happy she really likes Tom, even if she doesn’t like me. She can be very hard.”
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The Welsh Dragon and the Danish Beauty are out of Strictly Come Dancing and Camilla is not too happy; well you wouldn’t be would you!?

A studio source said: “Camilla was livid. She really wanted to win. She threw a real tantrum. She was in tears and her makeup was a mess.

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Camilla has revealed that Gethin’s performances on Saturday made the evening one of her favourite nights ever on Strictly.

‘I don’t know what I’ve done to Gethin,’ she says. ‘I looked at him and thought ‘this man has the potential to go all the way’. We felt a lot of pressure from Len’s comment last week. I just thought please let Gethin come out and perform the Jive – and he did.’

‘If I had to sum up Saturday’s performance,’ says Gethin, ‘it would probably be something like this: WOO-HOOOOOOOO! It’s mental, the speed I was at. I burnt a hole in my trousers! I think it was technically better than the Salsa. I’m delighted to be in the semi final.’

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Blue Peter hunk Gethin Jones says he’s still young, free and single despite being joined at the hip to his Strictly Come Dancing partner Camilla Dallerup.

The 29-year-old presenter has set tabloid tongues wagging since wowing the judges on the hit BBC1 show every Saturday with his Danish dance beauty.

Last week millions of viewers saw gorgeous Gethin treat Camilla to a night on the tiles in London as they prepared to take to the floor.

But despite being encouraged to ask Camilla out on a date by his mum, Cardiff bachelor boy Gethin insists the pair’s relationship is Strictly professional.
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Sexy Kelly Brook has been paired up with heartbreaker Brendan Cole for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Rod Stewart’s wife Penny Lancaster, actress Stephanie Beacham and football legend John Barnes will also be competing in the BBC1 show which attracted more than 12 million viewers last year.

TV presenter Kelly, who is engaged to Hollywood star Billy Zane, was delighted to be teamed up with professional dancer Cole who split up with his fiancé, dancer Camilla Dallerup, after he got “too close” to newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky during the first series.

“He seemed quite shy on the first day,” said Kelly. “So far so good. He hasn’t really played up too much. He hasn’t met Billy yet, we’ll have to wait and see.”

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