Oti Mabuse is returning to Strictly Come Dancing
(Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)Oti Mabuse is set to return to Strictly Come Dancing for the first time since announcing her exit from the beloved series earlier this year.
The dancer picked up the glitterball trophy twice during her seven-year stint on the BBC favourite before stepping away from the ballroom in February to focus on her judging roles on Dancing on Ice and Masked Dancer.
However, fans of the dancing series are in for a treat as Mabuse, 32, will return to choreograph a routine for the show’s pros to open Musicals week, airing December 2.
The star, who teamed up with fellow choreographer Nikki Trow to create the routine, told Women’s Health UK: “What an amazing opportunity.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Mabuse talked about the conversation she had with her sister Motsi Mabuse before she won Strictly.
The South African dancer won the celebrity dance show in 2019 and 2020 with Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher and comedian Bill Bailey, respectively.
Her sister Motsi, 41, had been a dancer then a judge on the German version of Strictly, Let’s Dance, before joining the BBC series as a judge in 2019, replacing Darcey Bussell.
Oti, also a former Let’s Dance professional, explained what that period in her life was like.
She said: “At that point, I’d been on the show for four years, and I go (to Motsi), ‘Oh my gosh, when is it (winning Strictly) gonna happen?!’
“We had a conversation and we were like, ‘Look, we have to be amazing. You have to do your job, be honest, criticise, and do the best you can do and then I have to do the same’.
“What people don’t understand is that she and I didn’t have an option… it’s so easy to take all the incredible work away by saying, ‘They’re sisters’.”
