Johannes Radebe has denied he will be quitting Strictly Come Dancing.
Earlier this week, The Sun reported that the professional dancer could walk away from Strictly after this season because of his busy professional schedule.
Johannes is set to follow the Strictly season with a starring role in the West End musical Kinky Boots The Musical from January 2025. He is also developing a musical film based on his childhood in South Africa.
The dancer hit back at the rumours of a Strictly Come Dancing departure on Thursday (November 7) in an Instagram video, where he promised he's "going nowhere".
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In a caption, he wrote: "I'm not going nowhere! The story isn't true – I love @bbcstrictly and I want to do this beautiful show for as long as they want me – and the body will allow.
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"I have Kinky Boots and other work in the pipeline yes but nothing will take me away. 🪩Love you all Jojo."
Johannes is still in the thick of Strictly Come Dancing training along with celebrity partner Montell Douglas. The pair survived landing in the bottom two last Sunday when they won a dance-off against Olympian Sam Quek and professional partner Nikita Kuzmin.
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The duo are looking to improve their scores this Saturday night when they perform a Paso Doble to The Shapeshifters' 'Lola's Theme'.
Away from the dancefloor, Johannes has partnered with producer Richard Johns, whose credits include Disney+'s The Shepherd with John Travolta, on a film version of his memoir JoJo: Finally Home.
The movie musical is set to dramatise how Johannes used the art of dance to overcome homophobic discrimination during his childhood in the South African township of Zamelda.
Strictly Come Dancing airs on Saturdays on BBC One, while spin-off Strictly: It Takes Two airs on weeknights on BBC Two. Both shows are available to stream on BBC iPlayer.
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