With the summer season solely simply beginning to get underway, it would look like the brand new collection of Strictly Come Dancing remains to be aaaaages away – however we’re truly solely simply over a month away from the primary of this yr’s celebrities being revealed.
Prior to now few weeks, rumours have been coming in thick and quick about which stars will likely be getting their dancing footwear on for a really particular collection of Strictly, commemorating 20 years since the show first began airing on BBC One.
Celebrities from internationally of TV, sport, music and past have already being tipped to be within the pipeline, forward of the primary bulletins in August.
So, to get you within the Strictly spirit, listed here are all of the rumours concerning the 2024 line-up which have been reported thus far…
Toyah Wilcox
In June, The Sun reported that British music legend Toyah Wilcox had signed up for Strictly, after being impressed by her good friend and colleague Angela Rippon’s efficiency a yr earlier.
She beforehand joked to The Mirror: “I’d need to do it sooner slightly than later, as a result of I’m not gonna be capable of transfer.”
“I do perceive how exhausting they work. I’m associates with Angela Rippon and he or she was extraordinary,” she continued. “However they’re rehearsing 10 hours a day day-after-day. After which on Saturday, they do two exhibits.”
She added: “If I’m going to do it, it’s gonna need to occur throughout the subsequent few years as a result of I don’t assume I’ll be capable of transfer like that in two years’ time. However, you recognize, the entire world needs to do Strictly, I wouldn’t say no.”
Chris McCausland
Comic Chris is one other celeb The Sun claims has signed up for the brand new collection of Strictly.
If the comedian does wind up on the line-up, he’ll make historical past as the primary blind celeb to ever participate within the long-running BBC dance present. Chris misplaced his sight on the age of twenty-two, resulting from a hereditary situation referred to as retinitis pigmentosa.
Grilled concerning the rumours throughout an interview on This Morning in June, it’s truthful to say the stand-up performer didn’t precisely hold his cool, confessing that Strictly is “on the playing cards” and that he’s nonetheless mulling the provide over.
Nicola Roberts
Finest often known as one fifth of the chart-topping lady group Ladies Aloud, Nicola Roberts is rumoured to be following in her bandmate Kimberly Walsh’s footsteps by signing up for Strictly.
Nicola truly has some Strictly expertise, having carried out on final yr’s Christmas particular, with The Sun claiming she’s now being eyed for a spot on the principle present after impressing producers together with her strikes.
Actually, Nicola is the final celeb Giovanni Pernice ever danced with within the Strictly ballroom, after confirming earlier in 2024 that he gained’t be again for this yr’s season.
Mollie Pearce
Social media influencer Mollie Pearce will likely be greatest recognized to actuality TV followers for her stint on the newest collection of The Traitors.
In accordance with The Sun, bosses are hoping to capitalise on the present’s recognition by signing up a former contestant for Strictly, with Mollie on the high of their wishlist.
OG Traitor Paul Gorton and winner Harry Clark are additionally reportedly in bosses’ sights, too.
Nicola Peltz Beckham
Actor, filmmaker, mannequin and, in fact, billionaire heiress Nicola Peltz Beckham is greatest recognized on this aspect of the Atlantic for being married to David and Victoria Beckham’s eldest son Brooklyn.
The Sun reported again in January that Nicola’s group had been hoping she may use Strictly to “increase her profile” right here within the UK, with a separate story in the same tabloid months later claiming that Brooklyn may additionally be on producers’ radars.
Tommy Fury
Finest recognized for his stint on Love Island and his boxing profession, The Sun was the primary to report that Strictly bosses had been “eager” to enroll Tommy Fury for this yr’s collection.
The newspaper quoted an unnamed “supply” claiming that bosses had been “attempting all the pieces to get Tommy on”, within the hopes that his fiancé Molly-Mae Hague being within the studio viewers may assist “pull in youthful followers”.
Hannah Waddingham
Contemplating Hannah Waddingham is an award-winning star of hit TV exhibits and movies, we’d maybe recommend taking this hearsay with a pinch of salt.
Nonetheless, again in April, The Mirror reported that the Ted Lasso star was “significantly contemplating” a proposal from the BBC to participate within the hit ballroom dancing present.
Citing unspecified “insiders”, the outlet claimed Hannah is already an enormous Strictly fan, with the one main “query” in her thoughts being whether or not her schedule would permit her to spend weeks at a time coaching for it.
Harry ‘Nitro’ Aikines-Aryeetey
Already an Olympic sprinter earlier than he grew to become recognized to Gladiators followers within the present’s latest BBC reboot, Nitro was mentioned by The Sun in Could to already be “on the verge of agreeing a deal” with Strictly producers.
In accordance with The Solar’s “supply”, BBC bosses are hoping to “cross-pollinate leisure exhibits” by having Nitro join Strictly, a yr after showing as a visitor throughout one of many present’s dwell exhibits in December 2023.
Laura Kenny
Talking of Olympians – they don’t come a lot larger than Laura Kenny.
As Workforce GB’s most profitable feminine athlete, with 5 gold medals to her title, The Mirror was first to report that the celebrated bike owner was in consideration to check out a model new problem on Strictly.
The tabloid quoted a “supply” who claimed the athlete was the BBC’s “final signing” forward of the present’s twentieth anniversary.
Grace Keeling
Web character Grace Keeling – recognized to her on-line followers as GK Barry – is one other well-known face who’s been closely rumoured to be on the brand new Strictly line-up.
The Solar has reported that she has already had two conferences about collaborating, with the tabloid claiming that bosses are hoping she will be able to “attract” a youthful crowd for Strictly’s landmark collection.
After garnering a following on TikTok, Grace might be greatest often known as the host of the Saving Grace podcast, on which she’s interviewed everybody from Katie Worth and Rylan Clark to Jordan North and Alison Hammond.
Shona McGarty
An early choose for Strictly’s compulsory cleaning soap star slot, Shona McGarty was rumoured by The Mirror to be “in talks” for this yr’s collection.
Shona is greatest recognized for her position as Whitney Dean within the long-running BBC cleaning soap, which she stepped down from final yr, having been with EastEnders since her late teenagers.
Curiously, Shona was previously rumoured for this yr’s collection of Dancing On Ice, however in the end didn’t seem on the line-up.
Dave Fishwick
Again in Could, The Sun reported that Dave Fishwick, the group hero whose life story impressed the Netflix film Financial institution Of Dave, was being provided a spot on Strictly’s line-up for 2024.
After initially dodging questions concerning the present throughout interviews on BBC Breakfast and Good Morning Britain, Dave later set the file straight on TikTok, revealing he couldn’t make the dates work resulting from commitments he’s already made abroad.
Nonetheless, he did tease that maybe 2025 could possibly be his yr…
Roman Kemp
Hypothesis about Roman Kemp signing up for Strictly began earlier this year, when he stepped down as the host of Capital’s breakfast show after greater than six years.
Sadly, the person himself appears much less enthused concerning the thought, insisting to OK! magazine the one approach he’d say sure can be if he may dance with Johannes Radebe, as he thinks the media tends to focus an excessive amount of on the “cleaning soap opera of who’s courting who” throughout Strictly season.
Louis Theroux
Yeah, we all know, we’d be as shocked as anybody to see the acclaimed documentarian getting Strictly-fied, however it was truly Louis Theroux himself who recommended he’d be up for it.
He not too long ago advised Jonathan Ross: “I do know I’ve had too many drinks once I’m within the kitchen dancing whereas listening to one thing on the sensible speaker – usually hip-hop – and I begin doing the funky robotic after which I begin doing MC Hammer spins. And that’s the place it occurs and I begin pondering I ought to actually go on Strictly.”
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