SCD 2024 #2 : First slebs announced, warm up continues - No Spoilers Please (added by MNHQ at request of the OP)

[EineReiseDurchDieZeit]

KEEP DANCING EVERYONE

Hopefully this thread will see some closure to the unpleasantness in the form of findings; as well as the build up to the beginning.

Thanks for the new thread! Looking forward to finding out who's announced next... 💃🎵

💃Trying to stay positive that Strictly will stay its wonderful sparkly self this year.

Thanks for the new thread @EineReiseDurchDieZeit . Hoping things settle down a bit and we can enjoy the run up to the new series.

Second this!
SCD is one of the hi lights of my year and always just do joyful.

*so joyful

So I guess the question is: which unemployed politician is going to turn up, and which Olympian? Please God not Michael Gove.

Chris Mcausland said he was the worst kept secret 😀

I thought JB had done it before I was so convinced I was right I googled it!

The Olympian is Tom Dean @Marseillaise

I suspect there might be a few more.

My all time dream sign would be either Keith Duffy or Shane Lynch. Every year I hope one of them signs up!

Yeah JB did a Christmas one. He just seems well balanced for someone who's been in the music business, owning a farm and his faith is very important to him - he's really good on Songs of Praise.

Thanks @EineReiseDurchDieZeit

New Season Strictly!. Likeable comic and a boy bander!

What a shame that there was never a 2023 season and Gio and Graz mysteriously emigrated for no known reason, never to be seen again.

But never mind, Lovely Aljaz is back from paternity leave!

😂

Ah ok all that I could find was the reveal. I knew I'd seen him.

The Media Show podcast was interesting, especially what Krishnan said about how much power the BBC has over the media where Strictly is concerned.

Yay! New thread.

Reporting for duty.

All male celebs announced so far?

Is alijaz back for good? I seemed to think he is just back for the 20th anniversary special? (And likely last min stand in from graz!).

Love alijaz though! I hope he's back for the foreseeable!

Hello! In a rare event for me, I know both of the first announcements.

I know all three.

I probably won’t know the EastEnders one when they’re announced because I stopped watching soaps in around 2013. I won’t know the influencers either - didn’t know Joe Sugg or Zara before they began (but came to like them both).

So good that Amy is feeling strong enough to return.

Completely agree. I'm so pleased the first couple of Celebrities have been announced so the focus can be on something positive! I love this time of the year with the announcements and then the excitement of it starting and it's all part of the cosiness of Autumn and Winter!

Yes, it heralds the start of Christmas.

The start of darker nights.

The start of staying up on Saturdays to see the Spoiler.

Can't wait for this year hope it survives and flourishes

It does. It is. It’s so fabulous. The best thing on tv x

Eastender - wonder if it’ll be Shona whatshername who played Whitney?

I’m looking forward to this year, especially Chris McCausland. He was on a travel programme with comedians taking him to well known beauty holiday spots and describing it to him. His best experience was with Liza Tarbuck who went with him to Niagara Falls, where they went on the Maid of the Mist boat ride and he got the sense of scale and power of the falls, by being immersed in the water. He didn’t like beach holidays, and wasn’t enamoured of the camels in Egypt or the description of Petra, the red city. He seems very upbeat. Hooray

Maybe she's not long left so she'd be free for training.