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Ellie Taylor Named It Takes Two Host After Posting About Son’s A&E Scare

It marks a key move in the BBC’s shake-up of Strictly presenters ahead of the revamped late-September season.

Overview

  • Earlier this month the BBC revealed Ellie Taylor will take over presenting It Takes Two, an announcement made on Emma Willis’s BBC Radio 2 Strictly special.
  • Taylor posted over the weekend that her toddler’s mild cough worsened into breathing difficulty while on a Sussex holiday, prompting a late-night trip to Chichester A&E.
  • She said doctors at Chichester prescribed steroids and the family returned home the same night with the child improving.
  • Taylor’s post also described further holiday mishaps, including her son cutting his leg on gravel, and the social-media update has been widely picked up alongside the presenter news.
  • The hire follows departures of previous It Takes Two hosts and frames Taylor’s return to the Strictly family before the show’s refreshed series launches in late September.