{"id":458925,"date":"2026-05-20T19:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458925\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:59:08","slug":"new-strictly-hosts-react-to-landing-dream-presenting-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458925\/","title":{"rendered":"New Strictly hosts react to landing dream presenting job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Willis has said she “can’t find the words” to describe how she feels after it was announced she is among the new hosts of Strictly Come Dancing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The TV presenter was joined by her co-hosts, Josh Widdicombe and Johannes Radebe, as the group discussed how “exciting” it is to be the faces of the hit BBC dancing competition.<\/p>\n

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\nNew Strictly hosts Josh Widdicombe, Emma Willis and Johannes Radebe<\/p>\n

The trio were seen asking each other how they feel about their roles in a series of behind-the-scenes posts shared to the show\u2019s official Instagram page on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

As the group were gathered in what appears to be a dressing room, Radebe asked Widdicombe how he was feeling, to which he responded: “It feels like\u2026 it doesn\u2019t feel real, right?”<\/p>\n

Radebe, who joined the show as a professional dancer in 2018, laughed and said: “You\u2019re telling me.”<\/p>\n

The comedian and The Last Leg star went on to ask Radebe how he feels about “not being part of that dancing team and having to interview them”.<\/p>\n

He said: “Listen, I\u2019m not hanging up my dancing shoes just yet. That I\u2019m definitely not doing. I cannot\u2026 I mean, what is my life without a cha cha cha?”<\/p>\n

In a second video, the three hosts were seen standing in a huddle and Widdicombe said: “Genuinely, this is the most exciting thing in my life that I\u2019ve ever kept to myself.”<\/p>\n

Willis, who was wearing rollers in her hair, a striped cardigan and jeans in the video, said: “I still can\u2019t find words because my tummy is just flipping consistently.”<\/p>\n

Mimicking the start of each episode, which sees the hosts walk down stairs to introduce the show, Willis continued: “I would imagine it\u2019s how you feel when you know you have to walk down the stairs – ‘dancing the cha cha\u2019 – and like everything goes to jelly.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s how I feel thinking about what we\u2019re about to do.”<\/p>\n

Radebe added: “It\u2019s petrifying, but I cannot tell you how exciting it is.”<\/p>\n

The group were also seen laughing together and making jokes amongst themselves, and Willis said: “We\u2019re just going to laugh a lot, aren\u2019t we? Just lots of laughing.”<\/p>\n

In a third clip, Widdicombe joked that the upcoming series will be an “absolute disaster” as he is set to host alongside “two of the most striking looking people on television”.<\/p>\n

He added: “Emma is like one of the great TV hosts of our generation, and Johannes is one of the great dancers of our generation. And I\u2019m here as well.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m looking forward to the first episode, because I think it\u2019ll be the only episode in the history of Strictly where the presenters are more nervous than the dancers. It\u2019s gonna be great.”<\/p>\n

Willis, Widdicombe and Radebe were revealed to be the hosts of the flagship entertainment programme by the BBC on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The long-awaited line-up will take over from Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, who announced their departure from the programme in October 2025.<\/p>\n

Press Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Willis has said she “can’t find the words” to describe how she feels after it was announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-458925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}