Oti Mabuse is a South African talent show judge, television presenter and Latin dance champion.
She captured the hearts of the British public as a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing, and is the only professional to have won the show twice concurrently in both 2019 and 2020. In television she can currently be seen as Head Judge on Dancing With The Stars in Ireland on national broadcaster RTE, has appeared as a Dance Captain on The Greatest Dancer, a panellist on The Masked Dancer and a judge on Dancing on Ice.
In 2022 Oti embarked on a journey of self-discovery in her BBC One documentary Oti Mabuse: My South Africa and with her sister Motsi in ITV’s emotional DNA Journey. She entertained the nation’s young children during lockdown with her Cbeebies’ show Boogie Beebies, hosted the hit ITV show Romeo & Duet, and took on 2023’s Comic Relief Challenge Frozen. In 2023 she launched Oti Mabuse’s Breakfast Show every Saturday morning on ITV1 – a new lifestyle and entertainment chat show and in 2024 cemented herself as one of the nation’s favourite television stars, appearing as a campmate on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here.
Oti’s children’s book series Dance With Oti celebrates dance, movement and expressing your feelings – as well as teaching a short, simple 10-step dance routine. And in 2024 announced an exciting book deal with leading publisher Simon & Schuster for her very first fiction novel Slow Burn that was released in September 2025.
Oti has hosted two series of the BBC Sounds podcast Oti Mabuse’s Dancing Legends in which she explores the extraordinary people who have changed the course of dance as well as Oti Mabuse: The Rhythm of Life, where she sits down with her closest celebrity friends, digging deep to show a side of them we’ve never seen before.
In the world of theatre, in 2022 Oti embarked on a nationwide tour with her solo entertainment show I Am Here, choreographed the critically acclaimed The Cher Show and in 2024 choreographed the Watermill’s production of Barnum which embarks on a nationwide tour in 2026. And in 2025 she took to the stage on her nationwide solo tour Viva Carnival.
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