Janette Manrara wants to do Celebrity Race Across The World
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two host Janette Manrara is "desperate" to take part in the BBC series Celebrity Race Across The World with her husband Aljaz Skorjanec.
Janette Manrara wants to take part in Celebrity Race Across The World with her husband Aljaz Skorjanec.
The Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two host is a huge fan of the BBC show - which sees stars race to reach a certain destination on the globe using any method of transport other than flight - and thinks that she and Aljaz would be the perfect team on the programme.
Janette, 42, told The Sun newspaper's TVBiz column: "I would love to... campaign that for me, 'cause we are desperate to do it.
"It's such a good programme. I really enjoy it.
"I feel like Aljaz would be really good at it. I'll just follow his lead, like I do with everything else in life."
Janette doesn't believe the the pair would argue with each other if they took part in the programme.
She said: "No, we're a really good team.
"We would do good on that show, I think. Famous last words..."
Janette is among those to have been suggested as a potential replacement for former Strictly Come Dancing presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman - who both bowed out at the end of last year's series of the BBC Latin and Ballroom competition - and recently admitted that the job would be very hard to turn down.
Speaking to Women and Home last week, the American star said: "To be honest, I keep giving the same answer - who doesn't want that job?
"If you love fun, family entertainment that makes people's hearts smile, it's the dream job. So, I think anybody that is in my field would love to do it so we'll just see. We'll see what happens!"
Janette had previously teased that she would be interested in hosting Strictly in an interview last month.
The presenter - who was a professional dancer on the show from 2013 to 2020 - told BBC Breakfast: "It is the dream, you know to do that, but It Takes Two has been so good to me.
"I have to say, as a professional dancer on the show, it's so hard to go off and do other things, and the fact that I've been given the opportunity as a professional dancer to now go and host It Takes Two, and of course Morning Live, is really phenomenal.
"I kind of still pinch myself that it happened. So if I get it, the party will be big!"
