Ann Widdecombe and Russell Grant will make a heavenly return to Strictly – dressed as angels.

They drop in to the studio on wires before being reunited with their former dance partners Anton du Beke and Flavia Cacace for a Children In Need special.

Russell Grant and Ann Widdecombe will return to Strictly for a charity special – and will FLY together.

Producers want to hoist the pair up on wires to recreate Ann’s famous flying scene from the 2010 series. It will be broadcast during Children In Need’s telethon on November 16.

Pudsey meet Pudsey - Children in Need's bandaged bear will team up with his dancing dog namesake for the charity show. Viewers will see the show's mascot perform a dance routine with the Britain's Got Talent winner on the BBC appeal next month.

Former Strictly Come Dancing stars Ann Widdecombe and Russell Grant will also return to the dance floor to team up with their partners Anton Du Beke and Flavia Cacace.

It's anything but a Grimm start to the panto season as Ann Widdecombe is re-teamed with her Strictly nemesis Craig Revel Horwood.

The Daily Express columnist is starring in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs for the second year running with Craig, 47.

A former Conservative Home Office Minister are amongst those who will be given honorary degrees at the University of Birmingham graduation ceremonies in July 2012.

Ann Widdecombe was a Member of Parliament for Maidstone, and then Maidstone and The Weald from 1987 until her retirement in 2010. Previous to her parliamentary career Ann worked in marketing at Unilever, and as a senior administrator at London University.

A fresh hairstyle gives Ann Widdecombe a powerful new look...but she is not planning a political comeback.

Instead the style, which she showed off on ITV’s This Morning, yesterday, is for her role as the Duchess in the comic opera La Fille Du Regiment by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.

If anyone had said to me when I was retiring this time two years ago that I would be dancing on prime-time television, touring in live shows with Craig Revel Horwood, hosting a quiz show and appearing in pantomime my response would have been: “Lie down and have an aspirin.”

Yet it has all happened and I often think nothing can surprise me again. Nevertheless I did think it was a wind-up when my agent rang to say she had received a bid for me to appear in an opera at Covent Garden.

Ann Widdecombe has said that she plans to be her own quizmaster on her new Sky Atlantic show - and will not be emulating anybody else.

The former MP and Strictly Come Dancing star will front Cleverdicks, which begins this week - but refuses to follow in the footsteps of other quiz show hosts such as Ann Robinson. "I do not like Ann Robinson's style," she said. "I like Ann Robinson, but I didn't want that ritual humiliation and rudeness.

Look out for Ann Widdecombe hosting new quiz show Cleverdicks on Sky Atlantic. The former politician and Strictly star tells What's On TV what it’s all about...

Ann Widdecombe has now done 30 shows in the panto season and has another 19 to go.

She marvels at the way the dwarves, animals and dancers, who are all children under 11, never seem to become bored or fractious. The grown-ups are beginning to yawn in the wings but as soon as the curtain goes up all fatigue vanishes in a rush of adrenalin.

As I came to the end of my time on Strictly Come Dancing last year, I remarked to Craig Revel Horwood that I would be naming that particular chapter of my autobiography Three Months in Luvvyland, to which he replied “It might be a bit longer than that, Daahling.”

He was right. We began the year by touring the country and dancing at venues as huge as Wembley and the O2 on the Strictly Live Tour, have appeared together on programmes such as The Antiques Road Trip and Pointless and we are now ending it by acting together in pantomime.

Ann WIddecombe has been reunited with Strictly Come Dancing nemesis Craig Revel Horwood – as his Servant in her debut pantomime performance.

The former Conservative MP, described by Craig as "a dancing hippo", joined the acid-tongued judge in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs at the Orchard Theatre in Dartford, Kent.

Her fans – and there are many, judging by the numbers who voted to keep her in last year’s Strictly Come Dancing for 10 weeks – are surely rubbing their hands with festive glee.

Ann Widdecombe is back, and in the most unlikely of places. She is preparing to make her stage debut in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs later this week.

It's all change as this fluffy daytime TV show gets a welcome peak-time slot.

Each week antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction

Ann Widdecombe is to host a quiz show called Cleverdicks.

The daily teatime Sky Atlantic programme will see the ex-Tory minister try to catch out contestants with brain-box questions.

After taking his criticisms on Strictly, Widdy puts the head judge on the spot about the nation's favourite dance show

Whatever fun I might have had on Strictly last year I would never have claimed that it left me an expert in dance so I was pleasantly surprised at how often the judges alighted upon the same points I had noted: the unconvincing, fixed smile of Rory Bremner, the tendency of Robbie Savage to let Ola do all the work, the carefully placed rather than fluent footwork of Harry Judd.

Poor Anton du Beke. This year he actually draws somebody who looks as if she might be able to dance but her self-regard and boasting will probably guarantee early elimination by a public who prefers people who know how to laugh at themselves.

Spare a thought for the professionals on Strictly Come Dancing. Some of the best of them have never made the final because the celebrities with whom they have been paired have never had a chance.

Ann Widdecombe has quickstepped into a Strictly catfight — by calling sultry Nancy Dell'Olio a "battleaxe". Fiery Nancy has been paired up with Anton Du Beke — who partnered Ann last year.

And the ex-MP reckons Anton's going to have his hands full. Ann, 63, said: "Nancy will be more high maintenance than me. I hope I have prepared Anton for knowing how to handle battleaxe women — because he'll need it with Nancy.