Strictly Come Dancing
Week 1 2025
Season 23 Episode 2
Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman present the first live edition as the ballroom dance show returns. The celebrities and their partners perform their opening routines, safe in the knowledge that no one is being voted off this week, although judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke will offer their comments - good or bad. The audience are bound to be cheering on actress and Love Island star Amber Davies, who has been drafted in at the last minute to replace the injured Dani Dyer, while the rest of the celebrities are Alex Kingston, Balvinder Sopal, Stefan Dennis, Lewis Cope, Vicky Pattison, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Karen Carney, Chris Robshaw, Ellie Goldstein, Ross King, La Voix, Thomas Skinner and George Clarke