The British "Dance with the Stars" will form a couple of dancers

“Stricly come dancing” will form a couple of dancers.

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A first in 16 years of existence.

The

ultra-popular

, Britain's version of

, brought together a same-sex dance couple for the first time, a participant said on Wednesday.

Two-time Olympic boxing champion Nicola Adams will dance with another woman in the new season which will air from October on the BBC, she said, explaining that it will be "great for the LGBT community".

"The time is definitely for change"

"I think it's very important, the time has definitely come for a change," the champion told the BBC.

"It's time to move on and make more room for diversity."

“It's an incredible step in the right direction,” she added.

The production has yet to reveal who Nicola Adams will dance with.

The popular Saturday and Sunday night show, which drew no less than 11 million viewers for its final last year, had previously shown two men dancing together, but only once during training.

The BBC had also received nearly 200 complaints for this sequence.

Celebrities who previously appeared on the show gave their support to the decision to have two women dance together.

BBC targets criticism

The public audiovisual group has been regularly attacked in recent months by conservative deputies.

Accused of wanting to be "too politically correct", the BBC notably came back on Wednesday on its decision not to sing two patriotic hymns associated with colonialism on the last evening of its famous annual series of concerts, the "Proms".

According to press reports revealed earlier in the week, the next BBC chief executive, Tim Davie, intends to cut some comedy shows as they would be 'left-handed' and convey a bias on issues like Brexit. .

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