■ MY DISCLOSURE

yesterday that Bruno Tonioli has quit Strictly Come Dancing surprised Dame Arlene Phillips, who was one of his three fellow judges when it started in 2004. However, the choreographer, 78, does not believe it will leave the hit BBC show damaged. ‘Strictly always carries on fine,’ Phillips, who was sacked in 2009, tells me at the first night of Grease The Musical at The Dominion Theatre in London’s West End. ‘If it can carry on without me, it can carry on without Bruno.’