A host of celebrities will hit the dance floor when the 21st series of the Strictly Come Dancing competition begins later on Saturday.
An opening show aired last weekend where the 15 celebrities were paired with their professional dance partners.
Celebrities taking part in the Glitterball Trophy this year include actress Amanda Abbington, broadcaster Angela Rippon, former Family Fortunes presenter Les Dennis and EastEnders star Bobby Brazier.
Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Anton du Beke appeared in the launch show of Strictly Come Dancing 2023 on ` One (Guy Levy/`/PA)
The ` has revealed which songs the couples will dance to and which dances they will perform first.
Bad Education star Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin will perform the samba to Little Mix’s ‘Touch’.
Rippon and Kai Widdrington will dance the Cha Cha to “Get The Party Started” by Shirley Bassey.
Brazier and Dianne Buswell will do the foxtrot to “All About You” by McFly and Paralympian Jody Cundy and Jowita Przystal will do the quickstep to “I’m Sitting On Top Of The World” by Bobby Darin.
Irish TV presenters Angela Scanlon and Carlos Gu will also dance the tango to Miley Cyrus’ “Prisoner” with Dua Lipa.
Actress Ellie Leach and Vito Coppola will star in Zara Larsson’s Can’t Tame Her.
Former tennis player Annabel Croft and Johannes Radebe will perform the cha cha to “Uptown Girl” by Billy Joel and comedians Eddie Kadi and Karen Hauer will dance the quickstep to “Two Hearts” by Phil Collins.
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Dennis and Nancy Xu will tango to Don’t You Want Me by the Human League.
Waterloo Road’s Adam Thomas and Luba Mushtuk will cha-cha-cha to the Jonas Brothers’ Waffle House.
Sherlock actress Abbington and Giovanni Pernice will dance the Viennese Waltz to Lewis Capaldi’s Pointless, while EastEnders actors Nigel Harman and Katya Jones will perform the Paso Doble to Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly at the launch of Strictly Come Dancing 2023 on ` One (Guy Levy/`/PA)
Radio host Nikita Kanda and Gorka Marquez will perform the waltz to “Run To You” by Whitney Houston and reality star Zara McDermott and Graziano Di Prima will perform the cha-cha to “Rush” by Jennifer Paige.
The final pair in the mix are Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Lauren Oakley, who will perform the Cha Cha to Apache Indian’s Boom Shack-A-Lack.
The judges for the show this year are Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke and head judge Shirley Ballas.
Meanwhile, Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman will host the show.
Strictly Come Dancing will go live on ` One and ` iPlayer from 6.15pm on Saturday.
Strictly It Takes Two will return to ` Two on September 25th from 6.30pm with presenters and singers Janette Manrara and Fleur East.
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