Strictly Come Dancing's Nikita Kuzmin's hidden health 'superpower' and why dance show 'changed everything'
04.03.2024 - 20:53
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Nikita Kuzmin is known for his role as a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing but he's expected to be swapping the ballroom for the iconic Celebrity Big Brother house when the hit show returns after six years on Monday (March 4).
But what do we know about Nikita? To start, he's 25 and a professional dancer who was born in Ukraine and moved to Italy with his family at the age of nine with his parents Natalia and Ievgen Kuzmin and his older sister Anastasia, who is also a dancer and appears on the Italian version of Strictly, Ballando con le Stelle.
Speaking of his family and home city of Kyiv, in 2022, Nikita spoke about his fears for his loved ones amid the Ukraine-Russia war. Speaking on Loose Women, he said that many of his extended family - including his grandparents, aunts and uncles - were trapped in the war-torn nation.
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Soon after, he was able to share that he rescued his grandmother after she fled to Poland. He told followers on Instagram: "Picked up my grandma from Poland! She is so incredibly brave & strong, 2 nights without sleeping, walking 8km+ in the freezing cold, when on a normal day, she can barely walk! She travelled from Kyiv, my mom flew from Rome and I drove from Frankfurt and we all reunited in Krakow! Just so happy to be together."
He added: "When I was waiting for my mom and grandma at the train station, I've been immersed in this situation for the first time in real life. Although I know I should have been happy for my family, I couldn't. Just had tears on my eyes, because of how sad the situation is. How many thousands