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Actress Michelle Gayle and singer Heather Small (pictured) are among the celebrities who have signed up to take part in a new BBC dancing competition.
Dancing On Wheels sees the celebrities partnered with wheelchair users who have never danced before.
The winning couple of the six-part series will represent the UK at the Wheelchair Dance Sport European Championships in Israel this autumn.
BBC Three boss Danny Cohen said the show would be "fun and glamorous".
He added: "This is a really important project for BBC Three, and underlines our commitment to covering disability in a mainstream way, following the success of Britain's Missing Top Model last year."
Gold medallist Mark Foster, actor Kevin Sacre, rugby legend Martin Offiah and presenter Caroline Flack have all signed up to compete.
Professional ballroom dancer and wheelchair dance teacher Brian Fortuna will choreograph the couples.
The couples will train intensively and perform in front of a panel of judges, who will decide each week which couples stay in the competition.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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