Going for Glitterball Glory

Following last year’s ground-breaking run, the 21st series of the multi-award-winning Strictly Come Dancing will launch at 6.35pm on Saturday 16 September on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, once again bringing glitter, glamour and glorious dancing to homes across the nation.

The celebrities quickstepping onto our screens this year are Adam Thomas, Annabel Croft, Amanda Abbington, Angela Rippon, Angela Scanlon, Bobby Brazier, Eddie Kadi, Ellie Leach, Jody Cundy, Krishnan Guru Murthy Layton Williams, Les Dennis, Nigel Harman, Nikita Kanda and Zara McDermott

Hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman welcome our celebrity contestants onto the Strictly dancefloor as they make their dancing debut and we discover which professional dancer they will be paired with. Once the pairings have been announced, the celebrities and professionals will perform an eye-catching group routine, launching the new series in style.

Watching their every move and making notes ahead our first live show will be our Strictly Judges – Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke and Head Judge Shirley Ballas.

Our dazzling professional dancers for the upcoming series are: Dianne Buswell, Nadiya Bychkova, Vito Coppola, Graziano Di Prima, Amy Dowden, Carlos Gu, Karen Hauer, Katya Jones, Neil Jones, Nikita Kuzmin, , Gorka Marquez, Luba Mushtuk, Lauren Oakley, Giovanni Pernice, Jowita Przystal, Johannes Radebe, Michelle Tsiakkas, Kai Widdrington, Nancy Xu.

This year’s series will include all the viewer favourite theme weeks; Movies, Halloween, Musicals and of course our week in the home of Ballroom, Blackpool. Autumn is about to get a lot more fab-u-lous!