Stacey Dooley to be joined by Kevin Clifton for 2:22 A Ghost Story tour
TV presenter Stacey Dooley will be joined by her partner Kevin Clifton for a tour of 2:22 A Ghost Story.
The Luton-born presenter, who has one child with professional dancer Clifton after they announced their relationship in 2019, made her acting stage debut last year.
Clifton told BBC One programme BBC Breakfast, this will be the 'first project' that will see them work together since they won Strictly Come Dancing in 2018.
Dooley, 38, has said she thinks rehearsals are going to feel 'quite bizarre' as it is 'unknown territory' to be working together as a couple.
'We know each other like, properly as people now, like, this is different to when we did Strictly,' he said.
Dooley made her stage debut in a West End production of the supernatural thriller last year.
She said she 'really loved it' and 'it was a delight, like the whole experience. I just thoroughly enjoyed it'.
'I was probably slightly apprehensive, because it wasn't my world at all. Actually, I just couldn't get enough of it,' she added.
'And then, when the opportunity presented itself again, we wondered if there was a world where we could sort of do it together.
'And yeah, here we are. We're taking it all over the country.'
Clifton said it is an opportunity for them to be on tour 'together as a family' as they will bring their two-year-old daughter Minnie on tour with them, who will be looked after by a family member while they are on stage.
Dooley and Clifton will play married couple Jenny and Sam, who argue about whether their home is haunted by a ghost or not over the course of an evening with friends.
The production premiered in 2020 at the Noel Coward Theatre, and has seen singers Cheryl, and Lily Allen, former Love Island presenter Laura Whitmore and Babs actress Jaime Winstone in the play.
Clifton was on Strictly from 2013 to 2019, and has gone on to be in musicals Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Dirty Dancing The Musical, and Singin In The Rain.
Dooley recently presented the BBC programme Rape On Trial, which covers the delays to court cases and waiting times for victims of rape and sexual assault, and has also fronted documentaries Stacey Dooley: Locked Up With The Lifers, and Stacey Dooley: Stalkers.
The tour of 2:22 A Ghost Story begins at Manchester Opera House In August and will travel to venues including Bristol's Hippodrome, Glasgow's King's Theatre, and the Sunderland Empire.
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