Strictly Come Dancing 2026: All this week's songs and dances plus first look at Ballroom Vs Latin professionals dance-off

It's murder of the dance floor (almost)
Natasha Rigler
By Natasha Rigler

Strictly Come Dancing‘s professionals will be going head-to-head this weekend in an ultimate dance-off – and here’s a first look.

The dancing pros will be taking part in Ballroom Vs Latin for their latest group routine.

Anton Du Beke will be leading Team Ballroom alongside Shirley Ballas’ squad, Team Latin.

The Strictly professionals are going head-to-head in a Ballroom Vs Latin dance-off (Credit: BBC)

Craig Revel Horwood, meanwhile, will be refereeing the entire thing alongside his assistant, Neil Jones.

The routine will air during this Sunday’s Strictly: The Results show, but here is a sneak peek of what to expect.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Ballroom Vs Latin dance-off

Team Ballroom and Team Latin will be split into couples for this dance-off.

The Ballroom ladies will all wear matching floaty orange skirts with bright pink high-necked tops. Their male partners will be dressed in traditional tuxes.

Team Latin, meanwhile, will sport flamenco outfits in the same colours, with additional polka dots. Expect to see a few bare chests among the guys too – there’s plenty of open shirts!

The sneak peak pictures almost resemble scenes from West Side Story, with both Teams almost tussling as they go head-to-head.

Keeping the peace, however, are refs Craig and Neil. They are both dressed in black and white striped T-shirts and even have whistles around their necks and red and yellow cards in their pockets.

Is this a football match for a dance-off?! What ever it is, we’re here for it.

Neil Jones is referring the dance-off with Craig Revel-Horwood (Credit: BBC)

All the Strictly Come Dancing songs and dances for this weekend

We are now going into Week 3 of Strictly Come Dancing 2026. Unlike last week’s Movie Week, there is no theme. But there will be plenty of great dances and good tunes nonetheless.

Here are all of this weekend’s songs and dances:

  • Bethany Antonia & Nancy Xu: American Smooth – Love Song by Sara Bareilles
  • Dani Dyer & Nikita Kuzmin: Tango – Show Me Love by Robin S
  • Delta Goodrem & Kai Widdrington: Salsa – Always There / Ain’t Nobody by Jocelyn Brown / Chaka Khan
  • Jaime Winstone & Carlos Gu: Viennese Waltz – Never Tear Us Apart by INXS
  • Lacey Turner & Vito Coppola: Samba – Bamboléo by Gipsy Kings
  • Melanie Walters & Aljaž Škorjanec: Charleston – Ooh Ahh…Just A Little Bit by Gina G
  • Dame Sarah Storey & Julian Caillon: Paso Doble – California Dreamin’ by Sia
  • Tabby Stoecker & Mark Karmalita: Argentine Tango – hate that I made you love me by Ariana Grande
  • Cach Mercer & Maddie Ingoldsby: Couple’s Choice – Beware.. The South London Lover Boy. by RAYE
  • Graeme Hall & Lauren Oakley: Jive – Reet Petite by Jackie Wilson
  • John Nellis & Katya Jones: Cha Cha – Rock Your Body by Justin Timberlake
  • Lawrence Robb & Jowita Przystał: Rumba – back to friends by sombr
  • Shaun Wright-Phillips & Alexis Warr: Quickstep – I’m a Believer by The Monkees
  • Will Best & Dianne Buswell: Waltz – With You I’m Born Again by Billy Preston & Syreeta
Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke are the team captains (Credit: BBC)

What time is Strictly Come Dancing on this weekend?

This weekend’s Strictly Come Dancing live show will kick off at 6.15pm on BBC One tomorrow night (Saturday October 10, 2026). It will also be able to stream on BBC iPlayer.

Sunday night’s Results show starts at the slightly later time of 7.10pm on BBC One on Sunday October 11.

There, you’ll be treated to the Ballroom Vs Latin dance-off before another contestant and their professional partner says goodbye to the show.

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Strictly Come Dancing continues at 6.15pm on BBC One on Saturday October 10, 2026.