Strictly Come Dancing returns to BBC One this evening with its brand-spanking-new hosts.

It’s out with Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman , in with Emma Willis, Josh Widdicombe and Johannes Radebe .

After a cloak-and-dagger audition process under the aegis of the BBC production team, the unlikely trio won out over names including Zoe Ball and Rylan Clark.

Saturday night’s launch show will feature the new hosts alongside the professional dancers, new and old, as well as their celebrity partners and the judges.

In the pre-recorded show, the 15 celebrities will meet their partners for the first time on the dancefloor.

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Of the new hosts, Widdicombe will have the closest sense of what it will be like for the celebrities competing, since he did the same in the Strictly Christmas special in 2024.