STRICTLY star Ola Jordan could end up rehearsing for the hit show in Huddersfield.

She’s partnering magician Paul Daniels in the latest series, which kicked off on Saturday.

And he’s due in Huddersfield later this month to perform in a variety show at the Town Hall.

Daniels said he had told dance partner Ola she would have to follow him across the country as he completes his variety show.

Making his first appearance on the hit ballroom dancing show, he joked: “It’s not even Christmas and I’ve pulled a cracker” – when he was introduced to his professional partner.

The 72-year-old will now spend the next three weeks following an intensive rehearsal schedule with Ola, who is last year’s champion.

He said: “I’m still on tour so Ola has to go up to Newcastle and across to Rhyl and Huddersfield with me.

"So I’m having to travel on the morning and Ola, I assume, travels on the morning to where I’m going to appear that night. In the afternoon we will have time to practice and then we do the show at night and the next morning we travel to the next venue and that will be the way it will be.

“Speaking of which, I have to take my hat off to the people who run the Huddersfield Town Hall because the Strictly Come Dancing news broke at just after midnight. Twitter went mad and one twitter from Huddersfield Town Hall came about when I’m appearing.

“Most places are not that up on publicity.”

Daniels is due to appear with the Best of British Variety Show in Huddersfield on September 27. Others on the bill include The Krankies, Dana, Syd Little and Christopher Biggins.

The new series of Strictly started on Saturday.

Good Life star Felicity Kendal and former EastEnder Kara Tointon emerged as early favourites to carry off the reality television title.

Kendal, who impressed the other contestants with her ballet moves in rehearsals, revealed her secret weapon was the time she had spent at the venue for another reality show – Pineapple Dance Studios.

She said: “In my 30s I used to go to the Pineapple Studios to do bar work so I’ve always done that kind of stuff, but that is not the same as dancing.”

Tointon already won Strictly – or at least the Sport Relief version where she danced with Mark Ramprakash – so the judges are giving her less time to train in case she gets an unfair advantage.