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McFly\u2019s Tom Fletcher<\/a> is taking on the samba for this weekend\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing<\/a>, for which he\u2019ll be dancing to the Harry Styles hit Watermelon Sugar.<\/p>\n While the song is not only an ideal tune to shake your hips to, Fletcher has revealed that he also has a \u201cnice connection\u201d to the track, having worked with Harry Styles in the past.<\/p>\n On why he and professional partner Amy Dowden chose the song to samba to, Fletcher said in an exclusive interview with\u00a0RadioTimes.com<\/a> that they wanted a contemporary track.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were doing the Salsa and we wanted something contemporary. I\u2019m so rubbish, I don\u2019t really listen to a lot of contemporary music so if Amy sent through a song that I didn\u2019t really know, I wanted to learn something I know and I love.\u201d<\/p> \u201cWatermelon Sugar was the first suggestion so once that had been put out there\u2013\u201d Amy said, before Tom added: \u201cIt was always like, \u2018Is it as good as Watermelon Sugar? No.\u2019 So Watermelon Sugar just led the way.<\/p>\n \u201cAlso, you know I\u2019ve worked with Harry [Styles] and I know Harry Styles so it just felt like a nice connection that we\u2019re dancing to a song by someone that I\u2019ve worked with.\u201d<\/p>\n It hasn\u2019t been smooth sailing for Fletcher in this year\u2019s series, with the McFly star having contracted COVID in Week Two and self-isolating.<\/p>\n Fletcher returned to the competition for Week Three, however, and didn\u2019t disappoint \u2013 scoring 32 for his jive to Chuck Berry\u2019s Johnny B Goode.<\/p>\n Yesterday, Judi Love<\/a> announced that she would be sitting out of Saturday\u2019s show after testing positive for coronavirus<\/a> herself and needing to self-isolate.<\/p>\n By Lauren Morris Published: Friday, 22 October 2021 at 12:00 am McFly\u2019s Tom Fletcher is taking on the samba for this weekend\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing, for which he\u2019ll be dancing to the Harry Styles hit Watermelon Sugar. While the song is not only an ideal tune to shake your hips to, Fletcher has revealed that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6138,"template":"","categories":[5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/strictlys-tom-fletcher-reveals-surprise-connection-between-his-samba-and-friend-harry-styles.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/strictlys-tom-fletcher-reveals-surprise-connection-between-his-samba-and-friend-harry-styles-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/strictlys-tom-fletcher-reveals-surprise-connection-between-his-samba-and-friend-harry-styles-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/strictlys-tom-fletcher-reveals-surprise-connection-between-his-samba-and-friend-harry-styles.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/strictlys-tom-fletcher-reveals-surprise-connection-between-his-samba-and-friend-harry-styles.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/strictlys-tom-fletcher-reveals-surprise-connection-between-his-samba-and-friend-harry-styles.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/strictlys-tom-fletcher-reveals-surprise-connection-between-his-samba-and-friend-harry-styles.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Lauren Morris Published: Friday, 22 October 2021 at 12:00 am McFly\u2019s Tom Fletcher is taking on the samba for this weekend\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing, for which he\u2019ll be dancing to the Harry Styles hit Watermelon Sugar. While the song is not only an ideal tune to shake your hips to, Fletcher has revealed that…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/6137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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