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Bonnie McLaren

Tom Hiddleston teases Strictly Come Dancing appearance

Tom Hiddleston has said he’s up for an appearance on Strictly Come Dancing.

The Night Manager actor, 44, has said he would “absolutely” want to star on the BBC dancing programme.

While promoting the second series of The Night Manager, Hiddleston apparently replied “yes” when he was asked if he would appear on either Strictly, or The Celebrity Traitors.

“Yeah, absolutely,” he said. “Yeah. I'm a massive, massive fan of both.”

Tom Hiddleston and fiancée Zawe Ashton (Ian West/PA) (PA Wire)

Hiddleston has already revealed he’s a big fan of The Traitors, telling Radio 2 it’s one of his favourite things to watch.

“I mean the celebrity one would be amazing,” he said.

“I think the whole show, the format is just the most ingenious thing, isn't it? It's completely compulsive. Maybe the best television I've ever seen.”

Though Hiddleston might have made his career acting, surprisingly, he says he’d love to be a Faithful.

“I'd like to be a Faithful because then you can play detective, right?

“And you know that your conscience is clean and your heart is pure, and you're just watching and trying to figure people out,” he added.

“If you're a Traitor it's more of an acting exercise, right? It's a game, you have to keep deceiving and cloaking and dissembling and basically lying to people.

“It would be interesting though. I don't know, I think being a Faithful would be more of a curiosity scratcher somehow.”

Cat Burns, Claudia Winkleman, Alan Carr, Nick Mohammed, David Olusoga, and Joe Marler in the Celebrity Traitors final (BBC/Studio Lambert/Paul Chappells) (BBC/Studio Lambert/Paul Chappells)

The fourth series of The Traitors is currently on air, following the hugely popular celebrity spin-off last year, which was won by comedian Alan Carr.

In other news, The Night Manager’s executive producer has revealed the show “always intended” the shock twist at the end of Sunday night’s episode.

The latest instalment of the hit BBC drama, which stars Hiddleston, saw the return of the villain played by Hugh Laurie in the first series.

Speaking to the Press Association, Stephen Garrett, 68, said that showrunners “played on ambiguity” surrounding Laurie’s return to the show, and said: “He was never not going to be in it.

“It was a question of, how do we bring him back in the most exciting way possible?”

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