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soooooo here we goooo? if i were to be the casting director for strictly come dancing, these would be my 15 hopefuls competing for the glitterball

first of all my pro line up

- Dianne Buswell
- Jowita Przystal
- Ekaterina Leonova
- Nancy Xu
- Nadiya Bychkova
- Michelle Tsiakkas
- Karen Hauer
- Katya Jones
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- Nikita Kuzmin
- Carlos Gu
- Kai Widdrington
- Johannes Radebe
- Vito Coppola
- Giovanni Pernice
- Gorka Marquez
- Anton Du Beke

now lemme introduce you guys to my celebrity cast

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He has received nominations for three British Independent Film Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards, two Saturn Awards, and three Young Artist Awards.

Butterfield played the lead role in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

At age 13, Butterfield played the main and title character in Martin Scorsese's Hugo, adapted from the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Hugo was released on 23 November 2011, and achieved critical success. Butterfield played the title role of Andrew "Ender" Wiggin in the film adaptation of the Orson Scott Card novel Ender's Game. The film was released in 2013.

In 2015, Butterfield appeared in a film adaptation of Ten Thousand Saints.[16] In 2016, he portrayed Jacob Portman in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. He also starred as Gardner Elliot in the film The Space Between Us and as Sebastian in The House of Tomorrow in 2017. In 2018, Butterfield was cast in the main role of Otis Milburn on the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education. The series was released on 11 January 2019 to critical acclaim. The second season was released on 17 January 2020 and the third on 17 September 2021.

In 2023, Butterfield played in the annual Soccer Aid charity football match, raising money for UNICEF. Butterfield, a lifelong Arsenal fan, scored England's opening goal assisted by former Arsenal player Jack Wilshere

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He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2020 for his work in media and advertising.

and best known for being former Strictly runner up Joe Sugg his best friend

Lee played Garlic in the 2014 comedy movie, Spud 3: Learning to Fly, with John Cleese and Troye Sivan

In August 2017, Lee was named "Chief Visionary Officer" of Influencer Ltd, a British influencer marketing agency.

In 2022, Lee launched Creator Ventures with cousin Sasha Kaletsky. Their creator-backed venture capital fund invests globally — mainly on behalf of creators, media stars and other celebrities. Creator Ventures raised $20m to finance early-stage, consumer-internet startups.


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She played Lily Chao in the British BBC medical drama Casualty from 2013 to 2017.

Yu, born in Hong Kong, came to London at the age of 11 when she was offered a place at the Elmhurst School of Dance and Performing Arts (formerly known as Elmhurst Ballet School).


As well as acting in theatre, films and TV, she gives up her spare time to work closely with The Royal Academy of Dance and The Jack Petchey Foundation, bringing dance programmes to secondary schools, Special Educational Needs schools and Pupil Referral Units. Yu is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English


she recently starred in a Doctor Who special ''Legend of the Sea Devils''

as well as another fantasy drama series The Sandman

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He is known for Coop in the animated show Megas XLR and Jerry Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place.

being the son of late very famous comedy actor Dom DeLuise and late actress Carol Arthur

In February 2023 he started the podcast Wizards of Waverly Pod with Jennifer Stone, where both talk about their experience on the show Wizards of Waverly Place.

In 2005, he starred opposite Maggie Wheeler on the NBC pilot The Sperm Donor. In 2012, he had a guest role on Rizzoli & Isles as Dominic.

He has since directed episodes of How to Rock, See Dad Run, Lab Rats, and The Thundermans.

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this athletic girl got her eyes on the prize, She is the fastest British woman on record. She won a gold medal in the 200 metres, silver in the 100 metres and another silver in the 4×100 m relay at the 2019 World Championships, breaking her own British records with further records which still stand. Aged 24, Asher-Smith was the first Briton to win three medals at a World Championships. She earned a bronze in the 200 m at the 2022 World Championships. As part of 4×100 m relay teams, she won medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and also at the 2013 and 2017 World Championships.

She is the British record holder for the 100 m and 200 m and the British indoor record holder for the 60 m. Asher-Smith has been listed in the Powerlist as one of the UK's most influential people of African-Caribbean descent, most recently in the 2021 edition.

Asher-Smith has modelled for Louis Vuitton, Valentino and Off-White, and in 2019 had a Barbie created in her likeness. The same year, she made a cameo appearance in the music video for the single "Black" by Dave.

In 2021, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Kent.

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Ella's in the house so i guess that means it is Toonesday!!!

Toone has previously played for Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers, and has represented England at under-17, under-19, under-21, and senior levels. Toone scored the first goal in England's 2–1 victory over Germany in the final of UEFA Women's Euro 2022, which brought England their second major tournament victory in international football.

In July 2018, Toone joined Manchester United for their inaugural season in the FA Women's Championship for the 2018–19 season, one of seven players to return to the senior side having played for the club at youth level. She made her competitive debut for Manchester United, as a half-time substitute for Mollie Green, in a 1–0 League Cup victory against Liverpool on 19 August. On 9 September, she scored her first senior goal, on her league debut, in United's opening game of the 2018–19 season, a 12–0 win away to Aston Villa. She was voted FA Women's Championship player of the month for February 2019, having scored five goals in United's two league games, with four of them scored against Leicester City on 13 February.

On 10 November 2022, Toone signed a further contract extension until June 2026

Toone is a childhood Manchester United fan, with Cristiano Ronaldo being one of her favourite players. As a child, she played at Astley & Tyldesley FC; a plaque honouring her was installed at the club in 2022 as part of the "Where Greatness Is Made" campaign.

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two more reveals to go for the day, and then we are halfway through

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He won Celebrity Big Brother 1
back in 2001

His UK television appearances include being a team captain on Shooting Stars and hosting Jack Dee: Live at the Apollo, which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2006. He also presented The Jack Dee Show, Jack Dee's Saturday Night and Jack Dee's Happy Hour.

In February 2009, it was announced that Dee would be one of a trio of hosts to replace the late Humphrey Lyttelton for the summer series of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (the others being Stephen Fry and Rob Brydon).

In 2010, Dee took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March. In 2013, Dee joined Dara Ó Briain, Chelsee Healey, Greg James, Melanie C and Philips Idowu in Through Hell and High Water, a Comic Relief challenge which involved British celebrities canoeing the most difficult rapids of the Zambezi River. They raised more than Ł1 million for the charity.

In 2017, Dee co-wrote and starred in Bad Move, a sitcom about a middle-aged man and his wife (played by Kerry Godliman) who move from the city to a country cottage in search of the rural dream, which becomes more of a nightmare. A second series was broadcast in 2018.

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known for playing Kelly in the 2006 film London to Brighton and Karen Taylor in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

she has been in EastEnders since 2017 now and she has won these various awards: 2018 British Soap Award for Best Newcomer
2019 Inside Soap Award for Funniest Female
2020 Inside Soap Award for Funniest Performance

and nominated for:
Shortlisted—2018 Inside Soap Award for Funniest Female
Shortlisted—2019 British Soap Award for Best Actress
Shortlisted—2019 TV Choice Award for Best Soap Actress
Longlisted—2019 Inside Soap Award for Best Actress

before her role as Karen Taylor, she already was in the soap back in 2016 as Thelma Bragg for just 8 episodes

she also had a guest role in Law & Order UK

She is trained at London's Arts Educational School.

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Luke Black represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with the song "Samo mi se spava", placing 24th in the grand final.

Described as the "Serbian pop alchemist", his music draws from a range of electropop and experimental pop music influences

After graduating from the Grammar School of Čačak, Ivanović relocated to Belgrade to study English language and literature at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology.

he lives in London, There, he studied at the Point Blank Music School and subsequently also graduated with a master's degree in music production from the British and Irish Modern Music Institute. works as a graphic designer for a record label.

In June 2016, to promote the single Black embarked on a solo tour in China, performing in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

In April 2017, he performed at a fashion show during the Berlin Alternative Fashion Week, held at the Berghain nightclub.

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Baig was born on 1989 in London to Pakistani parents. Baig has been a secondary school teacher in North London. In 2016, she was in the BBC Two documentary Muslims Like Us, in which Muslims of differing backgrounds and beliefs were made to live together. She was the second to enter the house after the former boxer and Islamist Anthony Small (Abdul Haqq), who gave her a leaflet condemning gender mixing

She has presented several documentaries on topics relating to Britain's Asian and Muslim communities.


Baig has also presented documentaries on physical fitness, and segments on the BBC's Sunday Morning Live and The One Show. In 2019 she took part in Pilgrimage, in which people of differing religious views made a pilgrimage to Rome. In 2020 Baig presented the new BBC Studios and Open University co-production Our Coast with Adrian Chiles

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He is known for portraying the role of Romeo Nightingale in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. For his portrayal of Romeo, Warner won the Digital Spy Reader Award for Best Soap Newcomer in 2018.

n November 2022, Warner appeared as a contestant on the 22nd UK series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! finishing in second place.

Warner was in a relationship with his co-star Stephanie Davis between 2018 and 2019 and was later linked with Geordie Shore star Chloe Ferry and The Apprentice runner-up Camilla Ainsworth.

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He rose to prominence as a Children's BBC continuity presenter from 1985 to 1987, and went on to present a wide range of programmes for the BBC and ITV, including Going Live! (1987–93), This Morning (2002–23), Dancing on Ice (2006–14, 2018–23), All Star Mr & Mrs (2008–16), and The Cube (2009–15, 2020–21). As an actor, he played the leading roles in the musicals Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Doctor Dolittle.

From 2006 to 2023, he presented The British Soap Awards. Between 2006 and 2008, he hosted the programme with Fern Britton.


On 8 November 2012, Schofield interviewed then prime minister David Cameron on This Morning and presented him with a list he had obtained from the internet of five people named as paedophiles in connection with the North Wales child abuse scandal


He presented two series of the primetime game show You're Back in the Room for ITV in 2015 and 2016

In 2016, he travelled to South Africa with his wife, as part of a series of short clips for This Morning. Following this, ITV aired three thirty-minute episodes in a primetime slot, called Schofield's South African Adventure. Since March 2017, he has presented 5 Gold Rings, a new game show format for ITV. In 2017, Schofield presented three-part factual series How To Spend It Well at Christmas with Phillip Schofield in which he tested the latest must-have festive gifts.

ooh controversial one now

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best known for appearing in the Channel 4 programme Gogglebox. She won the sixteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2016,

After winning I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! she began appearing as a panellist on Virtually Famous in December 2016. On 8 January 2017, it was announced that Channel 4 would be reviving dating show Streetmate with Moffatt as the presenter. "I can't believe Channel 4 have asked me to present this iconic show. I remember watching Davina McCall on Streetmate when I was younger and thinking, 'Females can present entertainment shows too. I want to do that when I'm older. It's such a fun show and it's two of my favourite things to do, chat to randomers and a love story." In January 2017, she was the backstage presenter for the National Television Awards.

In 2022, Scarlett appeared alongside six other celebrities including Monty Panesar and Nick Hewer in the BBC television show Pilgrimage

On 9 January 2017, it was announced that Moffatt would be joining Ant & Dec on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. "I've watched Saturday Night Takeaway with my family for as long as I can remember, I'm such a huge fan, so to be part of one of the biggest entertainment shows out there, with two of my all-time TV heroes Ant and Dec, is an absolute dream." Moffatt said in a statement

She is also an ex-ballroom and Latin dancer, and has danced in local, regional and national competitions.

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best known for her work with Channel 5, BBC, ITV and Channel 4. Welby used to host her own national radio show on Heart every Monday to Thursday from 7–10 pm. Welby now fronts Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp and Chris Stark.

She presents Formula E's global TV show, Street Racers, on Channel 5. Welby hosted the Revolution cycling show series for Channel 4, alongside co-worker from 5 News, newscaster Matt Barbet. She presented her first documentary, 'Sarah Storey’s Longest Hour’ on Channel 4. Previously she has presented cycling shows for BT Sport, Eurosport and ITV4 and is the female face of Electronic Arts.

From 2010 to 2016, she was the lead weather presenter on Channel 5. In 2016, she was shortlisted by the Radio Times in a poll to be named Great Britain's best ever weather presenter.

Welby became a presenter for the online quiz game, HQ Trivia in the UK, making her first appearance on Monday 9 July 2018

In July 2018, she took over the Sunday morning breakfast show from Stephen Mulhern and Emma Willis. In 2017, she teamed up with Ed Sheeran to record a kazoo cover of his hit 'Shape of You' live on air. She has a personalised written thank you note from Sheeran framed in her house.


Welby is the face of BBC One social channels. She launched the award-winning Snapchat account and has presented live from events such as the BAFTAs, Sports Personality of the Year, BRIT Awards and BBC Music Awards. In 2017 she won a Digiday Publishing Award for Best Use of Snapchat for her work on the BBC One campaign

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a British retired rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. He is the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only man to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport.

Redgrave is regarded as one of Britain's greatest-ever Olympians. As of 2016 he was the fourth-most decorated British Olympian, after cyclists Sir Chris Hoy, Sir Jason Kenny and Sir Bradley Wiggins. He has carried the British flag at the opening of the Olympic Games on two occasions. In 2002, he was ranked number 36 in the BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. He received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year – Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.

He starred in Top Ground Gear Force for Sport Relief in 2008, where the Top Gear Team (Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond) took on Ground Force with predictable results, and trashed his garden.

In April 2008, Redgrave took part in the Olympic Torch relay for the games in Beijing, and he went on to be one of the final torch-bearers for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, carrying the torch into the stadium, where seven young athletes shared the task of lighting the cauldron at the opening ceremony.

He rowed on the Gloriana as part of the royal pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

He was voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2000, and received the BBC Sports – Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.

The Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake was opened by him and Matthew Pinsent in 2006. The lake and boathouse provide training, medical and scientific facilities for the GB rowing squad.

LEGEND

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an English singer who rose to fame in 2008 as a singer in the girl group The Saturdays. She is signed to "Salute the Sun" as a solo artist. White began her career as a theatre actress at an early age, appearing in several West End productions. She played Young Nala in The Lion King and between 2000 and 2002, she was cast as one of the King's daughters in The King and I. White successfully auditioned for The Saturdays in 2007, after a period attempting to carve out a solo singing career. Once White had joined the group, they began recording music and releasing a number of hits. The group later gained another record deal with Geffen Records after having huge success in the United Kingdom. White and the rest of the group then signed a deal with Island Def Jam Records and Mercury Records to distribute their music in the United States, which led to their first UK number-one single "What About Us". White's vocal range has been compared to Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey. White is the youngest member of the group.

She has released two Extended plays Chapter One and Chapter Two. White has appeared in a number of successful reality television shows, including Chasing the Saturdays (2013), The Saturdays: 24/7 (2011) and Ghosthunting With... The Saturdays (2010). As an individual, she also participated as a contestant in the first series of Popstar to Operastar and the seventeenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here.

In 2018, she participated in E4 show, All Star Driving School.

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and that's that, all 16 celebrities revealed

What Do You Think of this Line Up?
How Many do you know of these stars?
Favourite Male?
Favourite Female?
First Out prediction?
Top 3 prediction?
most dance offs prediction?

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and yes you've noticed it but yes in my fantasy game, Anton Du Beke is back among the pro line up but for whom, that we will keep a secret a bit longer for now


the judges are
Craig Revel Horwood
Motsi Mabuse
Shirley Ballas
AJ Pritchard

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I think it's a pretty good line up except Phillip.

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Originally Posted by Kate!

I think it's a pretty good line up except Phillip.

Phillip is a little bit the ''Sean Spicer'' type of casting for my line up

+ he might not be half that bad a dancer, in latins idk, but ballrooms he could do well

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Hello and welcome to the Launch Show, who gets to dance with whom




now we know who our class of 2023 are, time for them to meet their professional partners


and first up it is time for the boys

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Nicky: first up it is these 3 gorgeous guys, Asa Butterfield, Luke Black and David DeLuise

alright

Asa Butterfield, the lucky girl you will be dancing with is............

Spoiler:

Katya Jones

Luke Black, i can now reveal to you, your dance partner is.........

Spoiler:

Jowita Przystal

David DeLuise, i reckon any of these ladies will be lucky to be paired up with a sympathetic bloke as yourself, but you are dancing with.......

Spoiler:

Dianne Buswell

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Nicky: alright time now for some more of our males, please can i have a applause for Caspar Lee, Jack Dee and Owen Warner


Caspar Lee, the girl who's gonna hope ur as good as a dancer as you are as a businessman, you are dancing with.......

Spoiler:

Nancy Xu

Jack Dee, this years funny man of the show, well you will be having lots of laughs with this charming lady, you're dancing with.........

Spoiler:

Nadiya Bychkova

Owen Warner, you're dancing with and i can tell you, that you are in for a treat

Spoiler:

lets dance triple champion Ekaterina Leonova

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Nicky: two more to go, who will dance with Phillip Schofield and Sir Steve Redgrave

Phillip Schofield, the ''Holly'' to your dance journey is.............

Spoiler:

Michelle Tsiakkas

and finally

Sir Steve Redgrave, what an honour it is to have a ''Sir'' on our show and we have the perfect partner for you, you're dancing with.........

Spoiler:

Karen Hauer

so that completes our male pairings

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Nicky: some fabulous pairings over with the boys, now lets see if we can have some superb pairings with this years ladies too, and first to get paired up are Vanessa White, Crystal Yu, Ella Toone


Vanessa White, well hopefully you'll only be dancing on saturdays as sundays are never a good thing the dance off you're dancing with this hunk

Spoiler:

Kai Widdrington

Crystal Yu, our ''villain'' with quite the dance background, but who can bring some good contrast to this couple, you're dancing with........

Spoiler:

Nikita Kuzmin

Ella Toone, the one who you're hoping to score hattricks with on the dancefloor is..........

Spoiler:

Vito Coppola

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Nicky: next up to get paired up are Lorraine Stanley, Scarlett Moffatt, Dina Asher-Smith

Lorraine Stanley, you are a powerhouse in terms of personality, but who can match such a powerhouse in best possible way, you're dancing with....

Spoiler:

Johannes Radebe

Scarlett Moffatt, I'm a Celeb, Gogglebox Queen, meet your king i mean dance partner........

Spoiler:

Carlos Gu

Dina Asher-Smith, ur used to sprints, but this is a marathon and the one who will help you through that and learning you how to dance is.......

Spoiler:

Gorka Marquez

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Nicky: two more to go, Mehreen Baig, Sian Welby

Mehreen Baig, the one who hopes to make a ballroom and latin princess out of you is.......

Spoiler:

Giovanni Pernice

and finally

Sian Welby, last but certainly not least, you're set to be dancing with a national treasure, an icon to many, well it is......

Spoiler:

the King of Ballroom Anton Du Beke

and that completes all of our pairings now