Craig takes plunge with a strictly Oz style pool party

IT’S strictly swimwear at Craig Revel Horwood’s New Year’s Eve party.

‘My New Year’s resolution is always the same,’ the acidtongued Strictly Come Dancing judge tells me.

‘Keep the swimming pool heated, so everyone can jump in there in bikinis and I can pretend I’m back in Australia.’

The Antipodeanborn choreographer, 56, who’s just released a duet with Rietta Austin, It’s Christmas, Merry Christmas!, recently moved into a Northamptonshire mansion with his horticulturalist fiance Jonathan Myring, 35.

Adds Craig: ‘I always say to my guests: “Bring your bathers, darling.” At the stroke of midnight everyone strips down to their bikinis and trunks and jumps into the pool and we spend the rest of New Year there.’

G’day everybody!