Ann: Anton Is "The Perfect Partner"

Ann Widdecombe has been singing Anton's praises while visiting her former Kent consituancy.

BBC News reports that while Ann was opening a shop in Headcorn, shoppers were dying to know all about Strictly. She told them: "[Anton] is absolutely wonderful, because he is very patient and he has the ability to gear the routines to the person's strength. He tells this wonderful story about how he once had a student who simply could not move backwards for some reason. He devised an entire foxtrot coming forwards and apparently the judges never even noticed."

She also said that she didn't know all of the participants when she found out who she'd be up against: "Some of them I knew very well, but others I'd never heard of and I'm not going to say which was which."

Don't worry, Ann. I had to use Google for three of the participants, and I'm not saying who either...