Strictly Come Dancing signs up another BBC star as ninth contestant confirmed
Strictly Come Dancing's class of 2023 are being revealed one by one ahead of the glittering BBC reality show returning this September.
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Strictly Come Dancing's class of 2023 are being revealed one by one ahead of the glittering BBC reality show returning this September.
Strictly Come Dancing 2023 is fast approaching, with the ninth contestant now confirmed - joining the likes of Adam Thomas, Zara McDermott and Angela Rippon
Nikita Kanda is the new permanent presenter on BBC Asian Network Breakfast after covering the show for the last six months.
Stand-up returns to the BBC Asian Network - Comedy show back after three years
"I always had this dream when I was younger that I wanted to be a missionary and that I wanted to just travel the world and do humanitarian work," she says. In high school, she went on several different missionary trips, including to Dayton, Ohio, where she traveled for three years in a row to help out at a local African refugee community. "Every single year we would go and we would add a different aspect to the community," she says. "One year we built a basketball court for the kids there who were coming from different countries around Africa. Another year, we went and we worked on a house t...