Judge Motsi Mabuse will miss the show this weekend after closing contact with COVID | News about Ant-Man & Art

Another serious team judge from prom will be absent from the board this weekend after being notified by NHS Test and Trace that he is self-isolating.

Last weekend, Cynthia Erivo fills in Craig Revel Horwood, after he tested positive for COVID-19, and the actress will replace Motsi Mabuse this week after she announced that she would miss the show.

The dancer and TV star, who travels back and forth between the UK and Germany, has announced she will miss the show after being told she had been in close contact with someone who had the results. tested positive for coronavirus.

She would normally be exempt from isolation as she has had two shots and a booster shot, but her German vaccine is not recognized in the UK.

She said in a statement on Instagram: “I am subject to UK Government guidance and can only return to the UK after 30 November 2021.

“Our health is the most important thing and luckily I have been tested several times this week and negative.

“I’m healthy, I’m with my family, that’s important.”

A statement from Seriously come to dance “We can confirm that Motsi Mabuse will not be starring in this weekend’s serious prom drama.

“We are delighted that Cynthia Erivo will be joining again as a guest judge, with Craig Revel Horwood, Anton Du Beke and chief judge Shirley Ballas on the jury.

“We look forward to having Motsi back with us next weekend.”

Academy Award nominee and stage star Erivo joined Mabuse, Du Beke and Ballas on the jury last weekend for musical week while Revel Horwood was in isolation, and impressed as she give actress Rose Ayling-Ellis, the show’s first deaf contestant, feedback for her dance. habits through sign language.

There have been a series of absences from this year’s series.

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Revel Horwood, dancer Amy Dowden and the contestants Judi love and Tom Fletcher All tested positive for coronavirus throughout the series, while comedian Robert Webb and partner Dianne Buswell withdrew from the show because of the TV star’s ill health.

Former rugby player Ugo Monye is also sidelined with a back injury.