How ballroom dancing gripped Britain
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What Is the Difference Between Come Dancing and Strictly Dance?
Strictly Come Dancing has been on the screen now for almost 20 years. The BBC launched a program without stars called Strictly Dance Fever, hosted by Graham Norton in 2005 and 2006. There are two successful TV programs in Britain that predate Strictly: TV Dancing Club and Come Dancing. By the 1960s, the press had lost interest in dancing; it was rare to find any mention of anything related to dancing. Peggy Spencer campaigned tirelessly to get ballroom dancing into the Olympics and to get better coverage.
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