Hairy Biker lined up for this year's Strictly Come Dancing

 
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2 September 2013
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A Hairy Biker is lined up to star in this year's Strictly Come Dancing along with a Bond girl and a model, it was reported today.

The BBC1 ballroom show has lined up fifteen stars including Murder on the Dancefloor singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, rugby player Ben Cohen and Coronation Street's Natalie Gumede for the upcoming series.

The Sun reported the full line-up also includes Fiona Fullerton, who starred in A View to a Kill, Ashley Taylor Dawson from Hollyoaks, Patrick Robinson from Casualty and fashion designer Julien Macdonald.

Other names include actor Mark Benton, BBC Breakfast host Susanna Reid, Dragons Den star Deborah Meaden, and TV chef Dave Myers.

Already named were Countdown star Rachel Riley, model and TV presenter Abbey Clancy, golfer Tony Jacklin and Vanessa Feltz.

Reid told BBC Breakfast that, while she was "really excited" about taking part in the "Strictly experience", she was worried about the competition from the other celebrities.

She said: "When I saw them in rehearsals they already looked like pros."

The presenter said she was already feeling the strain of training and was "aching in places I've never ached before".

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