{"id":3903,"date":"2025-09-05T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/3903\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:04:06","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-2025-first-look-trailer-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/3903\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing 2025 first look trailer released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the first trailer for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing, giving viewers a fresh glimpse at what Strictly has in store when it returns to BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Saturday 20 September.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-second clip sees Strictly&#8217;s Professional Dancers and Head Judge Shirley Ballas enjoying one last burst of summer at a fab-u-lous pool party, held in the grounds of a glamorous mansion.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer gives an early taste of a sizzling full-length routine that will form part of Strictly&#8217;s hotly-anticipated Launch Show, airing on the evening of Saturday 20 September. The party soon turns into a dazzling group number, that will feature appearances from fellow Strictly judges Anton du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse &#8211; plus the debut of Strictly&#8217;s brand new Professional Dancers, Alexis Warr and Julian Caillon, whose arrival makes a big splash.<\/p>\n<p>Strictly Come Dancing: The Launch Show will reveal who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/articles\/2025\/strictly-come-dancing-2025-celebrity-contestants-confirmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this year\u2019s 15 celebrities<\/a> will be paired with, as they each come face-to-face with their Professional dance partner in a series of specially-filmed, surprise-packed sequences.<\/p>\n<p>The Launch Show will also feature a spectacular group dance where all 15 celebs and their partners take to the floor for the first time. Plus a sensational routine from last year&#8217;s winners Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell, an exclusive performance from Jessie J, and plenty of Strictly surprises &#8211; all hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman.<\/p>\n<p>Strictly Come Dancing is a BBC Studios Entertainment production for BBC One and BBC iPlayer and was commissioned by Kalpna Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment at the BBC. The Executive Producer is Sarah James, the Series Editors are Nicola Fitzgerald and Jack Gledhill. The Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Jo Wallace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/b006m8dq\/strictly-come-dancing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Add Strictly to your watchlist on BBC iPlayer now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GK\/JA3<\/p>\n<p>Follow for more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"the first trailer for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing, giving viewers a fresh glimpse at what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}