{"id":24799,"date":"2022-10-29T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1728718"},"modified":"2022-10-29T10:17:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T08:17:22","slug":"strictlys-fleur-east-reveals-pre-show-ritual-centred-around-late-father","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/strictlys-fleur-east-reveals-pre-show-ritual-centred-around-late-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly\u2019s Fleur East reveals pre-show ritual centred around late father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lidia Molina-Whyte\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 29 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div class=\"&quot;editor-content\" mb-lg=\"\" hidden-print=\"\" js-piano-preview-content=\"\" data-placement=\"&quot;Body&quot;\">\n<p>The <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/strictly-come-dancing-2022-line-up\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Strictly Come Dancing 2022 contestants<\/a> will soon be donning some scary costumes and dancing to some spooky tunes for Halloween Week. Most of them, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Rather surprisingly, singer <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/fleur-east-strictly-come-dancing-2022-contestant-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Fleur East<\/a> and pro partner Vito Coppola have opted to salsa to Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Break My Soul. Whether they Halloween-ify it or not remains to be seen, but Fleur will surely be hoping to impress the judges for the third time in a row since being in the bottom two in Week Three\u2019s <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/strictly-come-dancing-2022-leaderboard\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Strictly leaderboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, she has a pre-show ritual that helps ground her before taking to the dance floor to help with that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/Fleur-East-Strictly-8dfbbd5.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Fleur East and Vito Coppola on Strictly Come Dancing 2022.<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI have a ring that I wear,\u201d she told <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">RadioTimes.com<\/a> during an exclusive chat. \u201cIt\u2019s a special ring that me and my sister got made from my father\u2019s ring after he passed away. So that\u2019s one ritual that I have, is that I always have to like, just touch my ring on my finger just before we perform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not Fleur\u2019s only pre-show ritual. She also revealed that seeing her family is also a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to see my family, that\u2019s a big one. I have to spot them in the crowd,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s hoping it brings her luck tonight.<\/p> <p><strong>Strictly Come Dancing 2022 continues on Saturday 29th October at 6:50pm on BBC One. 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