Kristina Rihanoff's Strictly Come Dancing diary - Kristina Rihanoff

Kristina Rihanoff's Strictly Come Dancing diary

Each week, award-winning Strictly Come Dancing professional Kristina Rihanoff brings iVillagers all the latest news on her training with Jason Donovan, her progress in the show and the odd piece of backstage gossip from this year's series. Don't miss the weekly instalments as Kristina reveals what it's really like behind the showbiz spotlight

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Dec 02

I've never been this far in Strictly

Hi everyone! Well, after the success of last week's Q&A with iVillage.co.uk we decided to do the same again. If it ain't broke... There’s obviously a really good atmosphere among the dancers and celebs. With the competition entering the final stages, have things become more...

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Nov 24

Cracking the Charleston

Hi All! This week, I had a little Q and A session with the lovely team at iVillage.co.uk... What can we expect from you in this week’s show? This week is the Charleston, it’s a really unusual dance. It’s my first Charleston ever on Strictly and I’m really excited to do it...

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Nov 10

A song to Goo Goo too

Hi Guys, Hope everyone is well! Thank you so much as always for everyone that voted for Jason and myself. We are thrilled to be in Strictly Come Dancing for another week! We trained really hard for last week’s performance and although our scores weren’t the best we have had I was very...

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Oct 27

Dancing in the kitchen

As always I want to start by saying a huge thank you to everyone that voted for Jason and myself in last week's Strictly Come Dancing. It’s fantastic and we appreciate it so much! We are having so much fun putting on a show for you and hope to get better each week. Last week was...

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Oct 20

Colour, costumes and choreography

I want to start by saying a huge thank you to everyone who voted for Jason and myself to stay in Strictly Come Dancing. We are so happy to be in the show another week! We were both really happy with how our performance went and our hard training paid off. It was fun to do such a colourful...

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Oct 13

Setting our sights on Broadway!

So we are through to the next week of Strictly Come Dancing, which is great – it’s hard work but I am really enjoying it as always. Jason Donovan is a fantastic partner and works very hard – he is a perfectionist so sometimes this can take longer but I’m happy to have a...

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Dec 22

It's been a blast!

First of all I would like to congratulate all three finalists. It’s been a long journey and a tough one, but the right three couples made it to the final and they deserved to be there. I thought the finale was very special this year. All of the show dances were cleverly done, especially...

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Dec 13

And then there were three

It was a tough time on Strictly this weekend due to the double elimination. I’m really happy that Gavin made it all the way to the semi-finals, who would have thought it?! He was the most improved from week one and has been on an amazing journey. He faced his fears and got over his...

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Dec 07

Girl power!

It came as a real surprise when Ann was voted off last night, as I thought she was going to be in the competition forever! I think it proves that the joke has gone a bit too far and that my old partner, John Sergeant, who left in the same week a couple of years ago, definitely made the right...

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Nov 30

Anton's genius

I spent last week rehearsing for the Strictly Christmas special and I think the line-up is really great, with a real interesting mix of characters. Everyone has great ideas and I think the new format is going to work really well. I am very lucky to be dancing with the lovely John Barrowman....

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