The news couldn’t have come at a worse time. Aljaz Škorjanec is leaving Strictly Come Dancing after nine years of bringing warmth and sparkle to the coldest, darkest months of the year.
Hot on the heels of Oti Mabuse quitting, it feels like the spirit of the show is in danger of being lost – but Aljaz’s exit is even more upsetting than it first appears.
Our headlines are being dominated by male violence whichever way we look, from – at the most extreme, genocidal, nuclear end of the scale – Vladimir Putin ’s evil destruction of Ukraine to – at the other end of the seriousness spectrum – the Oscars featuring a live assault.
