Strictly star wants to 'move on' from race row.Byline: Strictly Come Dancing Come Dancing is a BBC TV ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off from 1949 to 1998, becoming one of television's longest-running shows.The show was created by Eric Morley, the founder of Miss World, and began in 1949 by broadcasting from regional star Laila Rouass Laila Rouass (born June 22, 1975) is an English actress of Moroccan Indian decent. She is best known for her role as Amber Gates, on British drama, Footballers' Wives. Early Life and Career She was born in London to a Moroccan father and an Indian mother. wants to draw a line under the show's race row. Summary: Strictly Come Dancing star Laila Rouass wants to draw a line under the show's race row. Strictly Come Dancing star Laila Rouass wants to draw a line under the show's race row. There were complaints after she was insulted by her partner on the series, Anton Du Beke Anton du Beke (born Tony Beak) is a professional ballroom dancer. His dance partner is Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003. His reasonably late entry to dancing began at 14, and at 17 he decided to specialize in ballroom. . The professional ballroom star used a derogatory de·rog·a·to·ry adj. 1. Disparaging; belittling: a derogatory comment. 2. Tending to detract or diminish. word to describe her after she had a spray tan and also asked if the half Indian, half Moroccan actress was a terrorist. Anton has now apologised for the comments and issued a statement insisting he is not racist. Laila, who starred in hit series Footballers Wives, said: "This happened a few weeks back, before we went on air. Since then we've settled our differences, We've been having a great time since then, so I would like to move on". The BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. is standing by Anton, despite a flood of posts on the programme's message board calling for him to be sacked. Kristina Rihanoff who dances with boxer Calzaghe is also backing Anton. She said: " He's a really nice man, I don't think he'd ever say anything to be rude to anybody". Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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