Here is a list of the pairings in full: <\/p>\n
Actress Lacey Turner and Vito Coppola<\/p>\n
Reality TV star Dani Dyer and Nikita Kuzmin<\/p>\n
Hair stylist to the stars Chris Appleton and Amy Dowden<\/p>\n
Australian singer and actress Delta Goodrem and Kai Widdrington<\/p>\n
DJ and social media personality Cach Mercer and Maddie Ingoldsby<\/p>\n
TV and radio presenter Will Best and Dianne Buswell<\/p>\n
Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey and Julian Caillon<\/p>\n
Actress Jaime Winstone and Carlos Gu<\/p>\n
TV and stage actress Bethany Antonia and Nancy Xu<\/p>\n
Former England footballer Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis Warr<\/p>\n
Presenter and author Graeme Hall and Lauren Oakley<\/p>\n
Actor Lawrence Robb and Jowita Przysta\u0142<\/p>\n
Skeleton athlete Tabby Stoecker and Mark Karmalita<\/p>\n
YouTuber John Nellis and Katya Jones<\/p>\n
TV and stage actress Melanie Walters and Alja\u017e \u0160korjanec<\/p>\n
One pair who won’t need to get to know each other are reality TV star Dani Dyer and Nikita Kuzmin.<\/p>\n
Dyer is back to compete for a second time, having withdrawn from last year’s series due to a fractured ankle.<\/p>\n
“I’m just over the moon. I’m so, so happy,” she said after the pairing, while Kuzmin added that he had “tears of joy” in his eyes. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, actress Bethany Antonia and professional Nancy Xu became the third two-woman couple to compete in the show. <\/p>\n
In a poignant moment, Antonia revealed that watching boxer Nicola Adams and Katya Jones performing together in Strictly’s 2020 series was a “big part of my coming out journey”.<\/p>\n
Among the other pairings were EastEnders actress Lacey Turner and Vito Coppola, former Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey and Julian Caillon, and Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis Warr. <\/p>\n
Also back on the dancefloor for a final spin was reigning Strictly champion, former Lionness Karen Carney.<\/p>\n
Clad in the same diamante-encrusted football shirt, Carney recreated the Jive that first marked her out as a contender of her series, alongside dance partner Carlos Gu.<\/p>\n
“I absolutely feel like I’m at home,” Carney told Willis after the routine, as she paid tribute to her pro partner. <\/p>\n
In 13 weeks time, she’ll have to surrender that glitterball trophy to a new victor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is a list of the pairings in full: Actress Lacey Turner and Vito Coppola Reality TV star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-776280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776280","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=776280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}