“We go to nightclubs and girls dance with girls all the time and professional female dancers dance with girls all the time, so I don’t think it’s a big deal.”
It will reveal which professional dancers are paired with this year’s celebrity contestants, including DJ Clara Amfo, EastEnders star Maisie Smith and comedian Bill Bailey.
“I just wanted to do something different and I didn’t get the big deal being paired with another female.
“It was nice not knowing the pairings – that’s spoilt Saturday night,” one upset fan wrote on Twitter, with another adding: “So allegedly the strictly pairings have leaked online.