Who can forget Mark Ramprakash’s salsa crisis in Series 4? It’s a classic Strictly moment: he and his partner became entangled in a microphone cable and had to stop their performance. Bruce Forsyth sprang into action – quickly ascertaining the problem and getting the OK from producers for them to start again, positively giddy with the spontaneity of it all. “I love it, this is LIVE television!” he hooted.

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