Strictly Come Dancing will sashay into our living rooms from Wembley Arena on Saturday when the nine remaining couples take to the dance floor in front of a 6000-strong audience. The live extravaganza, in aid of Children in Need, will have a spectacular Dancing Down the Decades theme, complete with Charleston, foxtrot and jive, plus plenty of surprises. TV&Satellite Week magazine caught up with judge Craig Revel Horwood, who last year wowed the crowds by flying onstage as part of a Queen tribute, to find out what the show has got up its sleeve this year... I’m planning to fly again... It’s just so lovely to let people see that I have legs and I am actually the tallest judge on the panel. Everyone thinks I’m a weasel. The Wembley show will be fabulous, darling... Viewers loved it last year when Russell Grant was fired from a cannon. The best thing about Wembley is that it gives an opportunity for a huge audience to come and see a live show, and all the ticket money goes to Children in Need. Ann and I are in panto together again this year... She plays my servant in Snow White in High Wycombe after we sold out in Dartford last year. Ann’s really lovely but, sadly, no better a mover than in the past. I have tried, but she has absolutely no musicality. Darcey Bussell is much classier than the rest of the judges... It’s exciting to have someone of her stature and experience on the show. I have a lot of respect for her. People are saying I’m being much nicer this year... But I think people just like me more. Have I finally won the hearts and minds of the nation, darling? No, the simple answer is that the dancing is better this year, although there are a few atrocities as well. On the Halloween programme I was part of the group dance and I want to do more dancing... I keep telling the producers, but they don’t seem to want to have me. Maybe they don’t think I’m any good. I’d like to have my own chat show... I’d want it to have musical numbers and be very theatrical, to knock that John Barrowman off his perch. Now I’m putting it out there, I’m sure TV bosses will be beating down the door.
