Arlene Phillips reveals she turned down Strictly three times before joining BBC show
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dailystar.co.ukStrictly Come Dancing three times before joining the BBC show.The 78-year-old choreographer appeared as a judge alongside Len Goodman, Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno Tonioli from 2004 until she was replaced by Alesha Dixon in 2009.She told Celebrity Search Engine podcast host Abbie McCarthy about why she signed up for the programme.Arlene explained: "I said no three times.
So I went to do this pilot, and Len Goodman was there, there was another kind of judge stand-in person, and there were some of the dancers we know, Anton was there, Brendan was there… it felt like chaos!"Then Len turned to me and he said, 'I don't know about this, are you going to do it?', and I said, 'I don't know, are you?' and he said, 'I'll do it if you do it!'.
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