Oti Mabuse is a professional dancer, choreographer, presenter and actress best known for her star quality on BBC’s Number One show Strictly Come Dancing and Oti’s Boogie Beebies which kept children entertained during lockdown.
Oti was born in South Africa in 1990, the year Mandela was released, and has been dancing since the age of four. Whilst training and competing as a dancer, she also studied civil engineering at the University of Technology in Pretoria. She is one of the most successful South African dancers in the world and starred in Let’s Dance in Germany before joining Strictly Come Dancing in 2015, winning the coveted trophy in 2019. Her incredible Strictly performances led her to become a Dance Captain on BBC One's The Greatest Dancer.
Samara Hardy has always loved to draw. As an illustrator, she was Highly Commended in the Macmillan Children’s Picture Book Prize, and won first place the Plum Pudding Awards Alice in Wonderland Competition.
