{"id":632350,"date":"2026-06-11T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632350\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T03:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:28:11","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-2026-which-celebrities-are-taking-part-in-the-new-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632350\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing 2026: Which celebrities are taking part in the new series?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We know that 15 out of the 20 professionals will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/ckgpznl9mvmo\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">be back this year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Returning to the dance floor will be Dianne Buswell, Julian Caillon, Amy Dowden, Katya Jones, Neil Jones, Nikita Kuzmin, Jowita Przysta\u0142, Johannes Radebe, Alja\u017e \u0160korjanec, Alexis Warr, Kai Widdrington, Nancy Xu, Carlos Gu, Lauren Oakley and Vito Coppola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Karen Hauer, the show&#8217;s longest-serving female pro, who has been with the show for 14 years, won&#8217;t be returning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other professional dancers including Gorka Marquez, Nadiya Bychkova, Luba Mushtuk and Michelle Tsiakkas will not be coming back this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also not returning this season are Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman who had presented the show together since 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new series of Strictly will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/c936nwngllxo\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">presented by Emma Willis<\/a>, Josh Widdicombe and Johannes Radebe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We know that 15 out of the 20 professionals will be back this year. Returning to the dance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}