The latest celebrity to join Strictly Come Dancing 2023 was snuck into the BBC studios in a Traitor's-style cloak to avoid detection ahead of their cast announcement.
Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy was unveiled as the fourth star to join this year’s ballroom show on Claudia Winkleman’s BBC Radio 2 show earlier this morning (August 5).
But to avoid press photographers capturing his involvement prior to the announcement, the broadcaster wore a cloak bearing more than a slight reference to The Traitors, the hit BBC reality show hosted by Strictly co-host Claudia. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. Taking to Twitter after he was revealed to be taking part in the show, Krishnan tweeted a photo of him wearing the cloak outside the BBC studios alongside another photo of a caped Yoda from Star Wars.
He tweeted: “The Traitors cloak they made me wear to keep the secret going into the BBC….from two different angles #strictly.” His followers were quick to shower the newsreader with Star Wars references.
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