Strictly Come Dancing to start revealing contestants on The One Present
The BBC will welcome a brand new batch of well-known faces to the twenty first sequence of its flagship present this autumn, with the primary character anticipated to announce their involvement in model on the inexperienced couch on Friday night.
The dancing competitors present tweeted on Friday: “It’s time to start revealing our #Strictly class of 2023. Tonight @BBCTheOneShow 7pm.”
Among the names being speculated to affix this 12 months’s Strictly roster is 37-year-old England cricketer Stuart Broad, after asserting his retirement from cricket final week.
English ballroom dancer Shirley Ballas, who has been dubbed the Queen of Latin, can be head decide once more as Australian-born choreographer Craig Revel Horwood, South African dancer Motsi Mabuse, and ballroom and Latin dancer Anton Du Beke additionally return to the judging panel.
Tess Daly, who has introduced the BBC One present since its first sequence in 2004, and Claudia Winkleman, who took over from Sir Bruce Forsyth as the principle co-host in 2014, are additionally set to return.
Dave Arch and his band will as soon as once more present the soundtrack to Strictly on Saturday and Sunday nights as opponents once more head to the distinguished Tower Ballroom in Blackpool.
In April, the BBC introduced that present reigning champion Jowita Przystal, who final 12 months lifted the glitterball trophy with wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin, is returning to the present together with 2022’s runner-ups Gorka Marquez, Carlos Gu and Vito Coppola.
Dianne Buswell, Nadiya Bychkova, Graziano Di Prima, Karen Hauer, Katya Jones, Neil Jones and Nikita Kuzmin had been additionally confirmed to be among the many professionals within the line-up.
Those taking to the dancefloor additionally embrace Luba Mushtuk, Giovanni Pernice, Johannes Radebe, Kai Widdrington, Nancy Xu, Lauren Oakley and Michelle Tsiakkas.
Meanwhile, South African skilled dancer Cameron Lombard, who joined the present in 2021, won’t be a part of the line-up for Strictly Come Dancing 2023 as he pursues “exciting future projects”.
It comes as former Strictly professionals Janette Manrara and Aljaz Skorjanec welcomed their first youngster collectively, who they named Lyra Rose Skorjanec, after discovering out in regards to the being pregnant simply earlier than beginning IVF remedy.
The couple starred alongside one another on Strictly Come Dancing for a few years earlier than Manrara stepped down in 2021 to develop into a co-host of the spin-off present It Takes Two.
In April, the BBC revealed that Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two presenter Rylan Clark would step down from the spin-off after 4 years, with singer and former Strictly contestant Fleur East taking his place alongside Manrara.
Meanwhile, Strictly star Amy Dowden won’t function as an expert dancer this 12 months as she undergoes chemotherapy remedy after asserting in May that she had been identified with breast most cancers, and revealing she had undergone a mastectomy in June.
Doctors later discovered one other kind of most cancers within the Caerphilly-born dancer, which she described as a “massive blow” because it meant she wouldn’t be capable of compete in Strictly this 12 months.
The announcement additionally comes days after an episode of Kate Garraway’s Life Stories aired on ITV which noticed decide Du Beke reveal he had spent three days in hospital after he was stabbed within the abdomen and the leg by his father in a childhood incident.
The final sequence of Strictly noticed Yassin and Przystal carry the glitterball trophy, after beating different celeb {couples} East and Coppola, Molly Rainford and Gu, and Helen Skelton and Marquez in a public vote in the course of the dwell present.
In 2021, Strictly’s first deaf contestant Rose Ayling-Ellis gained with companion Pernice following their acclaimed silent dance, following comic Bill Bailey who turned the oldest celeb to win in 2020 with Oti Mabuse after their must-watch couple’s alternative dance to Rapper’s Delight.
Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher and Mabuse took house the trophy in 2019 and presenter Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton had been topped dancefloor champions in 2018.