Strictly 2025 : Warm Up Chat

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Thought I’d sound the KLAXON and round everyone up for some Strictly chat about possible/rumoured contestants. They usually start announcing soon!

I’ve heard Dani Dyer, Stacey Solomon, Ashley Cain and Tom Parker Bowles

If we’re talking gymnasts then Nile Wilson (plus Ash and Luke) need to be in the running for the hilarious copycat videos alone!

Oh sorry! 🙄 🤦‍♀️ for some reason I thought he went earlier than he should have

Maybe that was just wishful thinking because he just ball balanced with his shirt off🙄 😂

Older ladies? I'd love to see Jenny Seagrove dancing, she's beautiful!

Alison Steadman has never done it, she’s a shout maybe?

Laura Trott Kenney and / or her husband Jason???

I did think about her but I thought I saw recently that she was on crutches due to an injury?

@CaveMum Oh really? She’s got time though!

The new pro Alexis Warr looks very good, she is from the DWS troupe as well as winning " So you think you can dance" 2022. She asked the pros to be part of her TikTok y'day at the rehearsal. She is definitely brining something new to the pro group.

The new male pro Julian knows Craig from DWS Australia.

I'd love an ice skater. We must have some retired ones or ex DOI pros?
My favourite contestant ever was Meryl across the pond. She had an advantage when it came to being lifted but also her performance wow factor/ability to express and create chemistry was off the charts.

Alex Kingston rumoured. I used to love ER.

Love her
I would be voting for Alex, week in, week out.
She said she couldn't ever compete with Sarah Hadland as Sarah was ballet-trained, but they'd both love to do it.
The new Aussie guy can train her.
Doctor, doctor
Bad case of loving you
Cry me a river
Dr Who theme
Possibilities are endless <3

ADORE Alex Kingston so hope this is true, I wouldn’t imagine she’s short for either work or money though

What about someone from Amandaland/Motherland. Lucy Punch, Phillipa Dunne, Tanya Moodie, Diane Morgan. Anna Maxwell Morgan is probably too big a celeb.

Good shout with the ‘Kenney’s’ @CrushingOnRubies .

Wynne Evans has apparently put a complaint in alleging that two stars in his cohort took cocaine backstage. It’s on Sky News but the main source is The Sun on Sunday which I won’t be linking to. The stars are unnamed.

Yeah i saw it as breaking news on Bbc. Wynne really thinks he has been wronged doesn't he ? I don't condone drug taking obviously and.it should be investigated but it just looks like he is trying to make himself look better

It’s a very clear case of you ruined my career - I’ll ruin your show. If it comes out that these two stars did, it probably still won’t cancel Strictly though if that’s what he’s trying to achieve….

It just seems petty to do it now.

Why drag this up now 9/10 months later? And celebs take coke shocker. All seems very petty and playground antics.

Well it didn’t cancel Blue Peter when Richard Bacon took coke. He got fired but that was more because it was a kids show more than anything.

Why drag this up? his career is in the shitter and he wants revenge as you say @CrushingOnRubies like with Richard Bacon any fallout over coke antics will hurt the individuals concerned not the overall brand. He’s just lashing out.

Last year was so boring even coke couldn't make it exciting!

Wynne is just a horrible man, isn't he? When he was initially investigated I thought it was just a case of the BBC being a bit heavy-handed in dealing with someone with a puerile sense of humour. His vindictive reaction, in ensuring his supposed best Strictly friend, Jamie, went down with him and now dobbing in other people, is worse than the initial crime. If he thinks being cancelled is the worst thing to happen to him then why inflict the same fate on other people? Altogether a nasty piece of work.

Any idea when they're going to start announcing celebs?

It usually starts when the pros are rehearsing the season's pro dances, which is around now. (I think.).