Courtney Act thinks it's time Strictly Come Dancing had a drag act.

The Celebrity Big Brother winner and RuPaul's Drag Race finalist would love to join the top BBC show

"I hope the BBC would be open to it," she told the Daily Star. "They love a stunt casting. Surely it's time for the BBC to do it."

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Courtney, real name Shane Jenek, added that she already has a huge plan in place if she was ever to take part.

"I would want to be Courtney and dance with a male partner. And then half way through the series I'd come out as Shane and there would finally be same-sex dancing on the show.

"I've seen same-sex ballroom dancing and it's just as fabulous."

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Having same-sex couples on the show has been a big talking point for a number of years.

Judge Rinder, who was a contestant in 2016, said he thought the idea was "absurd".

"It's a perfectly reasonable question and I completely understand why people are asking it," he explained. "It was the first question I was asked by everybody and my immediate, serious and thoughtful reaction was... don't be absurd," he said.

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"Nobody was asking me to get married to my partner or engage in any sort of geography with her – that's probably the worst euphemism, but you get the sense. They just wanted me to dance with her."

Last year's contestant Susan Calman was previously trolled online for insisting that she didn't want to dance with another woman.

"My decision was to dance with a man," she insisted at the time. "I want to dance with a man, and I think sometimes, politically, there's nothing more powerful than having an openly gay woman on the biggest show on television, whose wife is in the front row, doing what she wants to do."

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