

… You can’t risk one of your players being absent,” said the judge. No production company could take that risk. Let’s say I arrive a day late, the way things are these days, you never know. “Can you imagine? I’m stuck at Heathrow, they’re waiting for me in America. He added that he would hate if travel delays caused him to “let someone down.” They said, ‘It really is not feasible.’ And I said, ‘It really is not,” said Tonioli. “We looked into whether there was a way of making both shows work for me like before and it was a mutual decision. He said that the conversation about leaving “Strictly” was “very civilized” and that they both just wanted to do what was best for both shows - “Strictly Come Dancing” and its U.S. It’s like James Bond, right? You have Sean Connery and Daniel Craig but they are both still Bond,” said Tonioli.

He also praised the “very good job” that Du Beke has done replacing Tonioli because he has made the role “his own,” comparing it to the way the James Bond franchise changes actors and there is no jealousy there. I was a successful choreographer, but this was like going back to the beginning as a performer. “‘Strictly’ changed my life, it was like being born again. A post shared by Bruno Tonioli went on to praise “Strictly Come Dancing, saying that it “changed life.”
