King Charles chats with Reeta and Clare Balding (Image: BBC) BBC Breakfast: Stacey Dooley discusses Strictly Come Dancing Reeta Chakrabarti is one of the most familiar faces on BBC News, having a key role on the election night coverage. But once the count is done, thoughts will turn quickly to Strictly Come Dancing in the autumn. In fact, many TV journalists have waltzed their way to even greater fame -- Susanna Reid , Kate Garraway, Khristian Guru-Murthy, Ranveer Singh, and Angela Rippon.
It’s definitely something the long-time BBC staffer has thought about. Chakrabarti, 59, said: “I've never been offered it,” she admits, “but I do get asked about Strictly by people, and this is a very head and heart division. “My heart says how wonderful it would be.
And the head says, ‘I don't think that it goes with reading serious stories on the news’. And the news is serious, isn't it? You know, it can be awfully grim. “I know that Krishnan Guru-Murthy [Channel 4] carried it off with style, and that’s great.
.. “I think that's a very long-winded way of saying ‘No’.
” Back to the election, she believes the BBC “will bring the nation together” whatever the election result. Reeta will be in the BBC ’s London studio analysing the results as they come in – as well as dealing with Jeremy Vine’s Swingometer from Cardiff. “As a long-time BBC staff member,” she says, “it is sort of heartening, really, that there is a unifying role that the BBC does play.
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