‘Dust off your dancing shoes’: Strictly Come Dancing 2022 launch date confirmed – and we haven’t got long to wait

It’s again!! (Image: PA)

Strictly Come Dancing is again for an additional collection of glitz and glamour and the countdown for the launch is formally underway.

The BBC flagship programme is for its twentieth 12 months and there’s been plenty of pleasure surrounding the milestone collection.

In a press release, present bosses revealed that the launch present shall be recorded on Wednesday September 7, and is more likely to air on Saturday September 10 with presenters Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly welcoming the brand new this 12 months’s line-up.

They wrote: ‘Mud off your dancing footwear, Strictly Come Dancing is again!

‘The beautiful twentieth collection returns, bringing glamour and show-stopping dancing again to Saturday nights on BBC One – and we’re extraordinarily excited to have the ability to welcome an viewers again to the studio for this 12 months’s reveals.’

And if that wasn’t thrilling sufficient, the Strictly professionals are set to carry out a spectacular quantity celebrating 100 years of the BBC.

Claudia Winkleman (l) and Tess Daly (r) shall be again as hosts (Image: PA)

The beloved competitors will welcome a contemporary batch of celebrities – that are but to be confirmed –  to the ballroom, with Craig Revel Horwood, Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse and Anton du Beke serving because the judges.

Elsewhere, 4 new skilled dancers shall be seen on our screens, taking the full quantity to twenty – the best ever on the present.

These newcomers are Vito Coppola, Carlos Gu, Lauren Oakley, and Michelle Tsiakkas.

Dianne Buswell, Nadiya Bychkova, Graziano Di Prima, Amy Dowden, Karen Hauer, Katya Jones, Neil Jones, Nikita Kuzmin, Cameron Lombard, Gorka Marquez, Luba Mushtuk, Giovanni Pernice, Jowita Przystal, Johannes Radebe, Kai Widdrington and Nancy Xu have already been confirmed for the upcoming run of Strictly.

Actress Rose Ayling-Ellis was topped champion final 12 months (Image: BBC/Man Levy)

Strictly professional Oti Mabuse give up the present after seven years (Image: REX)

Sadly, Oti Mabuse determined to depart the present after seven seasons, and Aljaž Škorjanec will even be absent.

A number of notable names have been related with this 12 months’s present together with former England rugby star  and Girl Louise Windsor.

Whereas cleaning soap actor Adam Thomas and TV chef Gino D’Acampoare additionally rumoured to participate.

Followers noticed Rose Ayling-Ellis carry the Glitterball trophy again in 2021, alongside companion Giovanni Pernice. 

However who will find yourself following in her footsteps?