Strictly Come Dancing is a British dance contest show in which celebrities partner with professional dancers to compete in mainly ballroom and Latin dance. Each couple is scored by a panel of judges. The title of the show is a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing. The format has been exported to 60 other countries under the title Dancing with the Stars, licensed by BBC Worldwide, and led to a modern dance-themed spin-off Strictly Dance Fever. The Guinness World Records named Strictly as the world's most successful reality television format in 2010. The series is currently presented by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman. Bruce Forsyth co-presented the series with Daly until 2014.
Lilia Andreyevna Kopylova is a Russian professional dancer.
Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, originally starting ballet and later moving into ballroom, Latin and jazz. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, she moved to Australia as a teenager to progress her dancing career, before moving to London in 1996.
James Jordan is an English ballroom dancer and choreographer. His dance partner is his wife Ola Jordan, with whom he turned professional in 2000. Jordan appeared as a professional on Strictly Come Dancing from 2006 to 2013. In August 2014, he participated in the fourteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother. He finished in third place. He returned as an All-Star for the nineteenth series, where he was evicted in thirteenth place.
Pavel "Pasha" Kovalev is a Russian professional Latin and ballroom dancer.
Aliona Valeriya Kavanagh, also known by her stage name Aliona Vilani, is a Russian-Kazakh TV personality and was a professional dancer in the BBC series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Aljaž Škorjanec is a Slovenian dancer and choreographer, who is known for appearing on the BBC series Strictly Come Dancing as a professional dancer from 2013 to 2021, and from 2024 onwards.
Giovanni Pernice is an Italian professional dancer based in the United Kingdom, best known for his appearances on the British television show Strictly Come Dancing. He is also an Italian Open Latin Dance Champion (2012), and the Guinness World Record holder for Jive kicks and flicks, as well as Charleston swivels.
Katya Jones is a Russian dancer and choreographer. She is best known for being a professional dancer in the competition show Strictly Come Dancing, which she won in 2017 with her dance partner Joe McFadden. In the 2020 series, Jones was paired with the retired professional and Olympic champion boxer Nicola Adams, the first same-sex couple to compete in the UK competition's format.
Gorka Márquez is a Spanish professional dancer, best known for appearing on the British dance show Strictly Come Dancing.
Dianne Claire Buswell is an Australian professional dancer. She is best known for her appearances on the British television show Strictly Come Dancing, winning in 2024 with her celebrity contestant and dance partner Chris McCausland.
Amy Dowden is a Welsh professional ballroom and Latin American dancer from Caerphilly, Wales, best known for her appearances on the BBC One television show Strictly Come Dancing. Dowden joined the series in 2017, and in 2019, she was a finalist in the seventeenth series with TV presenter Karim Zeroual. Dowden and her partner Ben Jones are former British National Latin Dance Champions. She has the Guinness World Record for the most back-Charleston kick-steps in 30 seconds (2022).
Kai Widdrington is an English dancer and choreographer. In 2010, he was the Junior World Latin American champion. In 2012, he reached the final of the sixth series of Britain's Got Talent. Between 2017 and 2020, he was a professional dancer on the Irish version of Dancing with the Stars, and in 2021, he became a professional dancer on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing.
Strictly Come Dancing Live! is a nationwide arena tour in the United Kingdom which was first staged in 2008 and has continued every year since. It is directed and co-choreographed by Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood.
Strictly Come Dancing returned for its seventeenth series with a launch show on 7 September 2019 on BBC One, and the live shows beginning on 21 September. Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman returned as hosts, while Zoe Ball returned to host Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two alongside new addition Rylan Clark.
Nancy Xu YouJie is a Chinese dancer and choreographer. She is best known for being a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing since 2019.
Nikita Kuzmin is a Ukrainian dancer and choreographer. He is best known for being a professional dancer on the RTL and BBC One dance competitions Let's Dance and Strictly Come Dancing. Kuzmin is also the holder of six Italian Championship titles. In 2024 he was the runner-up on the 23rd series of Celebrity Big Brother.
Jowita Maria Przystał is a Polish ballroom dancer. She is known for appearing and winning both The Greatest Dancer in 2020 and Strictly Come Dancing in 2022. She has been a professional on Strictly Come Dancing since 2021.
Michael Danilczuk is a Polish dancer and choreographer best known for winning the second season of the BBC One competition series, The Greatest Dancer with his partner, Jowita Przystał. He is also a professional dancer on the Polish and Irish versions of Strictly Come Dancing.
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Natasha Kaplinsky, winner of series 1 (2004)
Darren Gough, winner of series 3 (2005)
Mark Ramprakash, winner of series 4 (2006)
Alesha Dixon, winner of series 5 (2007)
Kara Tointon, winner of series 8 (2010)
Harry Judd, winner of series 9 (2011)
Louis Smith, winner of series 10 (2012)
Abbey Clancy, winner of series 11 (2013)
Caroline Flack, winner of series 12 (2014)
Jay McGuiness, winner of series 13 (2015)
Stacey Dooley, winner of series 16 (2018)
Bill Bailey, winner of series 18 (2020)
Rose Ayling-Ellis, winner of series 19 (2021)
