The BBC has banned bottled water from the Strictly Come Dancing studio in the broadcaster’s latest green push.
The BBC committed to getting rid of all single use plastic after Sir David Attenborough’s The Blue Planet II highlighted the scale of sea pollution.
Bring your own bottle Strictly dancers and the show’s crew are now being asked to bring their own reusable water bottles.
An email informed production staff that “we will no longer provide bottled water in the studio” by the end of the current series.
Priority for Strictly The email read: “In light of Monday night’s (BBC1) documentary Drowning in Plastic, we feel this should be a priority for our production and would like to make the change over as soon as possible.
Please can I kindly ask you all to bring your own reusable bottle.” Extra water coolers have been placed around the Elstree studios.
For dehydrating celebrity dancers, “runners will always be available to refill your bottles if you’re not able to do so yourself.” Strictly’s greenest year Some bottled water will be kept aside for audience members who are taken ill.
This year’s Strictly promises to be the “greenest” yet, following the Government’s ban on on the sale of plastic microbeads.
All the liquid glitter used in Strictly’s theme weeks is sourced from Burt’s Bees which is biodegradable, as are all the show’s make-up wipes.
For special effects, Strictly uses 50 per cent biodegradable confetti, the BBC said.