STARS should be able to ditch their Strictly dance partners who have refused to get jabbed, according to the ex-vaccine tsar.
Dame Kate Bingham, in charge of overseeing Britain’s successful rollout, says contestants should be given a say on whether they want to be close to someone who is not inoculated.
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Dame Kate Bingham, in charge of overseeing Britain’s successful Covid vaccine rollout, says Strictly stars should be able to ditch unjabbed professional dancers Credit: Getty
It comes after The Sun revealed several dancers on the show are causing chaos behind the scenes by refusing to get jabbed.
Dame Kate told the BBC it was "very hard to force things on people" but suggested the contestants should be able to refuse partners without the vaccine
She added: “Partners and people around them should have a choice as to whether they would like to dance with somebody who has not been vaccinated.”
Ministers did a U-turn on plans to force people to use vaccine passports at nightclubs and other large venues over fears Tory MPs would refuse to back them.
The Government has stressed they may keep them as a possible option later this winter in case covid spirals out of control once again.
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