Strictly Come Dancing contestant Dani Dyer said she is “grateful” to be given a second chance as she showed off her makeover ahead of the launch show.<\/p>\n
The former Love Island winner, 30, is taking part in the upcoming series after she was forced to drop out early last year due to an ankle fracture.<\/p>\n
Dyer shared her official Strictly 2026 photo in a pink sequinned dress and wrote: “Forever grateful for a second chance\u2026 strictly 2026 lets go.”<\/p>\n
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Fellow contestant Jaime Winstone posted a photo of herself in a purple tasselled mini dress along with another snap of the entire celebrity cast.<\/p>\n
Alongside the post, she wrote: “See you in the Ballroom.”<\/p>\n
Model Cara Delevingne commented to wish Winstone support, writing: “YES JAMIE! LETS GO GIRL!”<\/p>\n
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EastEnders star Lacey Turner shared her photo and wrote: “Well I never thought I would say this but here we go\u2026 Strictly 20206 lets go!”<\/p>\n
Celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton wrote: “And we’re off” alongside his photo and his client Kim Kardashian commented: “OMG OMG you\u2019re gonna kill it!”<\/p>\n
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TV presenter Will Best shared his photo and wrote: “ITS ACTUALLY HAPPENING. Me and both my chest hairs ARE DOING STRICTLY!!<\/p>\n
“And with such an amazing gang of fellow dancers too. I\u2019m a very very lucky boy. Honestly still can\u2019t believe it\u2026”<\/p>\n
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Sarah Storey posted her photo and wrote: “Pinching myself this is actually happening and alongside this wonderful team. Strictly class of 2026\u2026 LET\u2019S DO THIS.”<\/p>\n
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Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly star Graeme Hall shared a photo of the entire cast and wrote: “Don\u2019t we scrub up well, eh?”<\/p>\n
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Social media personality John Nellis wrote: “Time to find out if I can dance” alongside his photo.<\/p>\n
Emmerdale star Lawrence Robb posted his official snap and wrote: “Guess it\u2019s time to learn about ballroom. Here. We. Go!”<\/p>\n
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This series will be the first hosted by new presenters Emma Willis, Josh Widdecombe and Johannes Radebe.<\/p>\n
They have replaced former hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, who departed the show last year.<\/p>\n
Judges Shirley Ballas, Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke will all return for the new series.<\/p>\n
Strictly Come Dancing returns to BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 7.25pm on Saturday, 19 September and will air every weekend until Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing contestant Dani Dyer said she is “grateful” to be given a second chance as she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-621355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}