Strictly Come Dancing’s Musicals Week did not disappoint \u2013 but it wasn’t just the celebrities and their partners that wowed fans.<\/p>\n
There were two special guests in the ballroom \u2013 McFly’s Tom Fletcher took to the stage to perform The Explorer & The Bear from Paddington: The Musical<\/a> and was joined by none other than Paddington himself, which sent the studio crowd wild.<\/p>\n Fletcher welcomed the bear to the stage and then performed a duet with him to close out the song, which is a number that was written for the hit West End musical by the McFly frontman.<\/p>\n Want to see this content?<\/p>\n Sign out of ContentPass<\/p>\n Plenty of production value and innovation has gone into making Paddington ready for the stage, with a performer inside the suit and an animatronic head that is controlled from by a remote puppeteer while an actor voices the character from off-stage.<\/p>\n On a night when Amber Davies and Nikita Kuzmin scored a perfect 40<\/a> for their Charleston to Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat from Guys and Dolls, it was the appearance of the much-loved bear that really had Strictly fans talking.<\/p>\n “Amazing and beautiful performance from Paddington The Musical and Tom Fletcher on Strictly Come Dancing musicals week,” said one fan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Many others agreed that the bear’s appearance was the highlight on Saturday’s episode of Strictly.<\/p>\n Want to see this content?<\/p>\n Sign out of ContentPass<\/p>\n Want to see this content?<\/p>\n Sign out of ContentPass<\/p>\n Want to see this content?<\/p>\n Sign out of ContentPass<\/p>\n Read more:<\/p>\n Given it had already been an emotional episode, with EastEnders star Bavinder Sopal having to be consoled<\/a> by judge Motsi Mabuse after Sopal and Julian Caillon received a standing ovation for their moving Viennese Waltz to Never Enough from The Greatest Showman, it is perhaps no surprise that Paddington’s appearance had plenty of Strictly fans sobbing.<\/p>\n One fan said: “Tom and Paddington making me cry wasn\u2019t on my agenda tonight.” And another added: “Paddington was so beautiful! Made me tear up! Paddington is alive!!!”<\/p>\n Want to see this content?<\/p>\n Sign out of ContentPass<\/p>\n Having stolen the show on Musicals Week, you’d imagine the Strictly chiefs may try to get Paddington back in the ballroom sooner rather than later…<\/p>\n Strictly Come Dancing returns to BBC One and iPlayer on Sunday, 7th December at 7:45pm.<\/p>\n Add Strictly Come Dancing to your watchlist on the Radio Times: What to Watch app<\/a> \u2013 download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more.<\/p>\n Check out more of our Entertainment<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing’s Musicals Week did not disappoint \u2013 but it wasn’t just the celebrities and their partners…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-172815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}