The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - The Telegraph Magazine
Care to dance?
From political movers and shakers to frolicking future kings, famous faces take to the floor
Prancing politicians
1. Sources say Theresa May considered moonwalking to the podium at this year’s Conservative Party Conference, before settling on the ‘broken marionette’ routine instead.
2. Vladimir was Putin on the Ritz as he waltzed with Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl on her wedding day earlier this year.
3. Invited to dance during a White House event for malaria awareness in 2007, George W Bush pulled out his best move: the shouty supermarket shelf stacker.
4. Forget grainy shots of a drunken roadside kiss – the most unappealing photo of
Strictly Come Dancing’s Katya Jones was taken last year as she attempted to limbo through Ed Balls’ legs.
Caught in the act
5. Hugh Jackman can act, he can sing, and at the South Korean premiere of The Wolverine in 2013, he proved he can mime riding a Shetland pony, too.
6. Apparently it’s a condition of South Korean film premieres that leading men must dance. Here, Tom Hiddleston shows off his fancy footwork ahead of the Thor: The Dark World debut.
Right royal knees-ups
7. The Duke of Cambridge brushes something from his shoulder during a 2011 charity Christmas reception in London, and inadvertently becomes the Royal family’s smoothest mover.
8. They say the tango is the dance of love, so deduce what you will from the Prince of Wales’s expression as he sashays the night away in Argentina in 1999.