Strictly Come Dancing revealed the full line-up for its 2025 UK tour on Tuesday, which will kick off in the new year – but two huge stars are missing.
Actor Jamie Borthwick, opera singer Wynne Evans, JB Gill and Tasha Ghouri will be donning their dancing shoes once again.
They will be joined by their co-stars Gladiator and Olympian Montell Douglas, actress Sarah Hadland and singer Shayne Ward who were previously announced.
Sadly, Semi-finalists Pete Wicks and Chris McCausland are missing and it hasn’t gone unnoticed by fans of the show.
The celebrity contestants who appeared on this year’s 20th anniversary series of the competition will take the show around the country from January 17 to February 9.
Joining them will be Strictly Judges Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood will also take part and for the first time on the tour, Motsi Mabuse.
Strictly Come Dancing revealed the full line-up for its 2025 UK tour on Tuesday, which will kick off in the new year
JB Gill and Tasha Ghouri will be donning their dancing shoes once again
Meanwhile It Takes Two’s Janette Manrara will returning to host the tour once again.
Sharing their disappointment that Pete and Chris would not be participating, fans wrote to X: ‘We’ve got tickets already and I am a little bit gutted not to see Pete in the line up. I knew Chris wouldn’t be doing it, but Pete felt like he had earned it!!!’; ‘My little girl will be gutted. Pete and Chris are her favourites!’
Elsewhere, the Strictly Come Dancing 2024 semi-final songs and dances have been revealed.
Following Montell’s departure as the 10th celebrity eliminated during Musicals Week, the competition is heating up with a fresh and diverse lineup of songs on the roster.
Each couple will perform twice, delivering an exciting variety across the 10 chosen routines.
Tasha and Aljaž Škorjanec will perform a Waltz to Aretha Franklin’s (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman as well as a Salsa to Something New by Girls Aloud.
While Sarah and Vito Coppola are set to do the Tango to Big Love by Fleetwood Mac, followed by a Jive to The Pointer Sisters’ hit I’m So Excited.
JB and Lauren Oakley will dancing a Salsa to Red Alert by Basement Jaxx, before taking on the Paso Doble to Requiem for a Tower by Clint Mansell.
Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell will bringing the energy with a Charleston to The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn’s When You’re Smiling, before slowing down with a Viennese Waltz to Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters.
Actor Jamie Borthwick and opera singer Wynne Evans will also join the line-up
Strictly Judges Shirley Ballas (pictured), Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood will also take part and for the first time on the tour, Motsi Mabuse will join
Sadly, Semi-finalists Pete Wicks and Chris McCausland are missing and it hasn’t gone unnoticed by fans of the show
Elsewhere, the Strictly Come Dancing 2024 semi-final songs and dances have been revealed
Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell will dance the Charleston to The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn’s ‘When You’re Smiling’ and the Viennese Waltz to Metallica’s ‘Nothing Else Matters’
Sarah Hadland and Vito Coppola are set to Tango to ‘Big Love’ by Fleetwood Mac and a Jive to ‘I’m So Excited’ by The Pointer Sisters
JB Gill and Lauren Oakley will perform a Salsa to ‘Red Alert’ by Basement Jaxx and Paso Doble to ‘Requiem for a Tower’ by Clint Mansell
Last but not least, Pete and Jowita Przystal will perform an Argentine Tango to The Verve’s ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ and a Foxtrot to Bobby Darin’s ‘Beyond the Sea’
And last but not least, Pete and Jowita Przystal will perform an Argentine Tango to The Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony and a Foxtrot to Beyond the Sea by Bobby Darin.
Montell finally fell foul of the dance-off on Sunday night, as she became the tenth celebrity to be sent packing from Strictly Come Dancing during Musicals Week.
The Gladiators star, 38, and her professional partner Johannes Radebe landed in the bottom two of the public vote for the third week in a row, up against Tasha and Aljaž.
First to take to the floor, Montell and Johannes performed their Rumba to I’m Here from the musical The Color Purple, followed by Tasha and Aljaž’s Argentine Tango to Ex-Wives from Six.
After both couples had danced their hardest, it was down to the judges to deliver their verdicts with Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke all choosing to save Tasha and Aljaž.
While head judge Shirley Ballas agreed with her fellow judges, and said that she would have also decided to send Montell and Johannes home.
Despite narrowly missing out on a place in the semi-finals, Montell gushed about her experience on the show, as she described how her confidence had grown, while Johannes had become her ‘friend and brother’.