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The Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2012 Strictly Come Dancing decks the halls with glitterballs as JB Gill wins the 2012 Christmas special. Just a few days after the grand finale of the 2012 series, Strictly Come Dancing quickstepped back to screens to deck the halls with glitterballs for a one-off seasonal special, which saw [...]

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2012  | Photographs Some of the photographs for the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special have been released today, ahead of the actual programme which will be transmitted on Christmas Day. Taking part this Christmas are : Bobby Ball                      Katya Virshilas Katy Brand                     Anton du Beke JB Gill                             Ola Jordan Sheila [...]

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2012 The Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special will be on Christmas day on BBC One and BBC One HD. Diary note Len Goodman’s Dancing Feet Strictly So Far … Strictly Come Dancing Week 9 | The Results Strictly Come Dancing week 9 STRICTLY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL NAMES ARE CONFIRMED Strictly Come [...]

Ballet News brings you … Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2011 With dancing Snowmen and Santa’s reindeer, are you ready to dance off your dinner ? Christmas jumpers are all the rage this year, and a couple of ginormous crackers will get this party started for the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special.  Do you wish it [...]

Strictly Come Dancing Grand Final Part 2 So, Chelsee, Harry and Jason have each danced twice – a dance chosen by the judges and their Show Dance.  Now one couple faces elimination, after which the remaining two couples will dance again twice – a new dance and one of their choosing. On a day when it’s been [...]

Strictly Come Dancing in Blackpool for the final in 3D Chelsee Healey. Harry Judd. Jason Donovan. Three finalists. Four dances. One glitterball. Spartacus meets Frankie Goes to Hollywood opens the show; or rather, the Strictly professional men, later joined by the Gladiator girls complete with fishing nets. And then the three finalists arrive by chariot [...]

Strictly Come Dancing semi final results Kristina Rihanoff opens the results show in vibrant pink, to Paint it Black, accompanied by two of her professional female colleagues and three of the Strictly pro men, who are dressed in sparkly black. It’s surely the photo of the season !  Captured to make her dress look like [...]

Strictly Come Dancing Semi Final week 10 Strictly Come Dancing reaches the semi final stage this week, with each couple dancing twice and a double elimination. Harry & Aliona are first onto the floor with their Charleston. It looks as though they’ve been having fun in training but will it translate to the performance ? [...]

Strictly Come Dancing | Movie week results (week 10) Is there a better dance to get you in the swing of things that the Charleston ? The Strictly pro dancers lark their way through a sepia tinted routine packed with tricks and spills. Oh Lord. Tess has wrapped herself in too-short gold lame and tottering [...]

Strictly Come Dancing | Movie week 10 Saturday night at the movies…. with the Strictly pros. Vincent hamming it up, Len serving the popcorn; perfect Saturday night entertainment. Tess & Bruce have a red carpet, as the camera pans on the celebrities in the audience, including last year’s Champion Kara Tointon. As you can see [...]

Strictly Come Dancing week 9 – the results Last night saw the celebrities trying to raise their game as the competition speeds towards the final.  It wasn’t entirely successful.  Harry and Aliona danced a great Quickstep but Holly and Artem struggled with Holly’s innate reticence which is gradually impeding her chances of reaching the final [...]

Strictly Come Dancing week 9 It seems to be taking forever and a day for this series of Strictly to lift-off. The vastness of Wembley last week served only to highlight the yawning gap between the quality of this series and some of those from earlier years at this stage in the competition.  Bigger is not necessarily [...]

 Strictly Come Dancing | Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cornwall visits Strictly Studio Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cornwall today (Friday 25 November) paid a visit to the set of Strictly Come Dancing at BBC Television Centre. A fan of the series, The Duchess, who is President of the National Osteoporosis Society, attended [...]

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Day Special Strictly quicksteps back to bring a sprinkling of festive sparkle to your Christmas day. Five new twinkling stars will don their sequins and dust off their dancing shoes in the hope of delivering a Christmas treat. The five-star line-up will bring together stars of stage and screen, sport and [...]

Strictly Come Dancing results | Wembley week 8   Last night’s Strictly Come Dancing show came live from Wembley Arena, and now it’s time to see who has been voted off. But first…… Not one but two glorious Mini’s decked out in Union Jacks take pride of place on the stage, as a Beatles medley plays and [...]

Strictly Come Dancing | Wembley Week 8  So, here we are.  Wembley. Appropriately, the Strictly pros open the show with We Will Rock You, Radio GaGa etc in a Queen medley. Even the judges have a cameo appearance. There are silk walkers high above the stage and a raised dias, but the space still looks [...]

Strictly Come Dancing | The BBC Newsreaders for Children in Need Tonight, for Children in Need, four BBC Newsreaders – Sian Williams, Sophie Raworth, Emily Maitlis and Susanna Reid teamed up with Strictly Professional dancers Vincent Simone, Pasha Kovalev, Robin Windsor and Ian Waite to dance a Cha Cha Cha. The newsreaders and professional dancers [...]

Strictly Come Dancing week 7 The X-factor is on Strictly  With the Wembley show now within sniffing distance, which couple has lost the public vote this week ? First we are off with six Strictly professionals, dressed, on Rembrance Sunday, in patriotic red, white and blue. Tess seems to be wearing a bandage, but at least her poppy [...]

Strictly Come Dancing week 7  Tonight Strictly is at the half-way point.  Next week it’s Wembley, and an audience of over 6000, a goal some of the celebrities have been aiming for. But first there is the small matter of tonight’s show, with the first Argentine Tango’s of the series as well as a Jive, [...]

Strictly Come Dancing week 6 – results show The Strictly professional ladies open the show, dancing to Beyonce’s Run the World (Girls). Claudia (in her pajamas – heavens, what is wrong with the styling this series?) introduces the treats to come – Bruce Forsyth singing and Westlife. Then we run through last night’s show as the [...]