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With a question mark hanging over foreign holidays this summer, the super-rich are upping the ante in the English countryside instead and renting out stately homes for stratospheric sums.
For some, it’s a full-time escape during the pandemic. “We’ve seen a mad scramble among people with very high standards and unlimited resources looking for something really special to avoid a long period of incarceration in their London homes,” says Roarie Scarisbrick, partner at Property Vision.
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She said: “It’s quite a unique event – eight leading (ballet) companies and they’ve all said they’ll do it. At the time where there hasn’t been any performances it’s been so important to get audiences back into the theatre.”
Dame Darcey studied at The Royal Ballet School from the age of 13 and went on to become the then youngest-ever principal dancer at the Royal Ballet in 1989 when she was 20.
In 2006 she announced she was retiring as a principal ballerina and in June 2007 performed her last dance.
She was made a Dame in the Queen’s 2018 New Year Honours list for her services to dance.
Darcey Bussell: Returning to Strictly Come Dancing as a guest judge would be lovely
Speaking to Jonathan Ross, the dancer also revealed what it was like to snog Harrison Ford
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Dame Darcey Bussell says it would be lovely to appear on Strictly Come Dancing as a guest judge, but has ruled out a permanent return.
Now that she s had some distance from her years as a
Strictly judge, Dame Darcey reflected on her legacy with the show during an interview for this weekend s
Jonathan Ross Show on ITV. It was a big thing for a ballet dancer, she explained. It was fabulous, I had seven years. I miss that – it s like being part of a company again. BBC
Strictly Come Dancing for a stint as a guest judge, but nothing permanent. It would be lovely to be a guest judge or something, she said. I ve had lots of other jobs and I ve really enjoyed all of the different things I do. It was a great commitment, the nice thing was it really celebrated dance in a great way. It was great for the ballet world to have a judge as a ballerina.