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BBC Searching For New Dance Group

Choreographers Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli are returning to BBC One with a new series which will see them scouring the country searching for dancers to form a new group.

Thirty years after Arlene's sexy troupe Hot Gossip revolutionised dance on TV, she and Bruno are hoping the country's most talented hot–trotters will turn up at countrywide auditions.

Arlene said: "We're looking for the coolest, hippest dancers and singers, who have the drive and ambition to make it big and be part of the most exciting new group of the 21st century."

In the new programme, Arlene and Bruno will go head-to-head as they take two teams of finalists under their wings. Each week, the hopefuls strut their stuff with the latest dance moves and show off their vocal talent in the hope that they won't be put up for elimination.

Auditions start off in Glasgow, Manchester, Bristol and London. waveguide

Ben Shepherd To Host New BBC Dance Show

GMTV presenter Ben Shepherd is to host the new BBC show that will search for a new dance group - a 21st century version of Hot Gossip.

Details of the new programme were revealed last week by Waveguide.

Shepherd hosted the ITV2 X Factor spin-off the Xtra Factor and is reported to have been upset that Dermot O'Leary was chosen over him as the new presenter of the main show over him. waveguide