THERE won't be a dry eye in the house when dazzling dance duo Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace tour for the last time.

The couple's new show The Last Tango will be living up to its name when it opens in Manchester next week as they have announced that there will be no more theatre tours once it comes to the end of its run.

"We are not quitting dancing" said Flavia. "It's just we will not be touring any more. We've been on the road virtually non stop for the past six or seven years and we have loved every minute of it, you couldn't do it if you didn't. But the time has come for us to take on new projects."

Vincent and Flavia became household names after becoming two of the most popular professional dancers on TV's Strictly Come Dancing.

Flavia won the competition with gymnast Louis Smith before leaving the show in 2012. She also met her husband, actor Jimmy Mistry, who was her partner on the show in 2010. They married three years later.

"I did Strictly for seven years," said Flavia, "and it became part of my life. I have got so many wonderful memories from being on the show but it was also extremely hard work."

The Last Tango is the third show that Vincent and Flavia have taken on tour around the UK.

"We actually did three tours of Midnight Tango and a West End run," said Flavia, "and then two tours of Dance Til Dawn.

"Every time we put a show together the pressure is on us to come up with something that people will enjoy.

"For The Last Tango we have been working on it for four months. It has a much more emotional and intense storyline.

"When we were putting it together Vincent and I would be overcome, we couldn't really concentrate."

The Last Tango began to tour the country's major theatres in September and will come to Manchester Opera House on Tuesday for a week. It will end in July next year.

"The reaction to the show has been amazing," said Flavia. "We have met people at the stage door afterwards and they have been sobbing, they found it so emotional.

"We just wanted to make sure that our final show was special and that we were leaving on a high.

"With every show we have done we have tried to push the boundaries but The Last Tango is both musically and in its choreography really out there. It is deliberately ambitious and will be a real challenge every single night. I think we'll just cross our fingers and hope for the best.

"I think those last few weeks of the tour are going to bee horrendous. It will be very very tough for us. We are nightmares when any run comes to an end so goodness knows what we'll be like with this. It's hard to get your head round. Touring has become part of our life and then suddenly we won't be doing it any more.

"Who knows we may get a West End run for the show which would really be a fitting end but that all depends on theatre availability, we'll have to wait and see."

Before they appeared on Strictly, Vincent and Flavia were former World Argentine Tango champion

"We have been dancing together for 20 years ," said Flavia. "That is what we do. We have cone from competition to TV and then theatre and now hopefully there will now be something else.

"We are going to see what comes along and we'd love to do film work or a documentary.

"We are just so pleased to have had the opportunity to work in the theatre with our show and the fact that they have been so successful and the response that we have to is amazing.

"I think we have always had a desire to move on to the next thing and realise that we have only got a certain number of years when we can dance to our maximum.

"Vincent and I will always need to dance together."

The Last Tango, Manchester Opera House, Tuesday, November 10 to Saturday, November 14. Details from 0844 871 3018