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 celebrities are Alex Kingston, Balvinder Sopal, Dani Dyer, 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
Strictly Come Dancing airs on BBC One Northern Ireland HD at 6:55 PM, Saturday 27 September. (Subtitles, new, audio description.)
Topics
Tess Daly
Host
Claudia Winkleman
Host
Shirley Ballas
Judge