Star performer pulls out of Strictly tour Barclaycard Arena tells fans

ONE of the star performers on the 2015 Strictly Come Dancing UK tour has been forced to withdraw, the Barclaycard Arena has told fans.

The Birmingham venue said Saturdays’ star Frankie Bridge had reluctantly had to step down from performing on the advice of her doctor.

The singer, who said she was “devastated” to be missing the tour, is pregnant with her second child but has a condition called Hyperemesis Gravidarum, which can affect the early months of pregnancy.

The Strictly tour opens at the arena on January 16 and will still go ahead as scheduled. The producers of the tour – Stage Entertainment and Phil McIntyre Entertainments – have said a replacement celebrity will be named shortly.

They will join 2014 Strictly champion Caroline Flack, fellow finalists Simon Webbe and Mark Wright, together with Scott Mills, Alison Hammond and Thom Evans.  The new judging panel for the tour features 2008 Strictly winners Tom Chambers and Camilla Dallerup, who will join TV judge Craig Revel Horwood.  Zoe Ball will host the show.