Strictly Come Dancing 2024 stars are on this week's Radio Times
Meet the stars who will be putting a smile on your face on Saturday nights.
Strictly returns in earnest this week with the competition properly starting on Saturday night. It will be a welcome return for many people who find it's comforting run up to Christmas the perfect way to acclimatise to the nights drawing in and the temperature dropping.
But you would have to have been living the life of a hermit not to be aware of the trials and tribulations the show has been through in its 20th year. Some media experts said it might not survive the problems it faced and there's no doubt that the first live shows will be watched and scrutinised like no others in its history.
Hopefully the plans for the show that BBC director-general Tim Davie outlined at the height of the crisis will reassure critics that it has cleaned up its act. It's no coincidence that the majority of the celebrity contestants this year are male. One can only hope that a controversy-free year will help rebuild trust in the show.
Much has been written about Strictly over the past six months, not least in the pages of RT, but it is, I hope and feel, from a place of love. Strictly is so much more than a TV show and has become part of the national psyche. Welcome back!
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Also in this week's Radio Times:
- Bake Off hosts Alison and Noel share what happened to the famous Hollywood handshake.
- Emily Maitlis, Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson discuss 'that' Prince Andrew interview.
- Fake or Fortune's Philip Mould speaks about his job as an art detective.
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Strictly Come Dancing continues at 7pm this Saturday on BBC One and iPlayer.
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