Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2025 line-up

As this year's celebs head up to Blackpool, Strictly has begun revealing the line-up for this year's Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special.

This year’s Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special will see six couples battle it out under the glitterball to be crowned the Strictly Christmas Champion.

Hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman will oversee the festivities for their final time, while Head Judge Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, and Anton Du Beke will all be on hand to dish out sleigh-loads of advice, Christmas cheer and the odd lump of coal - before the voting studio audience will decide who wins.

Expect a winter wonderland full of festive magic, dazzling group dances, live music and more in what will be the perfect antidote to the post-Christmas Dinner slump.

Here's who will be taking part...

Scarlett Moffatt

Presenter and TV Personality

Scarlett Moffatt is the first celebrity announced to take part in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special. She revealed the news in a surprise, out-of-the-blue announcement live on Strictly: It Takes Two, where she was appearing as a guest on the show’s Friday Panel.

Scarlett will be paired with Strictly Come Dancing Professional Dancer Vito Coppola when she enters the Strictly Christmas ballroom this December.

Scarlett is a presenter and TV personality who first rose to fame alongside her family on Gogglebox before going on to win I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! in 2016. As a presenter, her work includes six series of the BBC Sounds podcast Scarlett Moffatt Wants To Believe, alongside Streetmate, the Channel 4 documentary Britain’s Tourette’s Mystery: Scarlett Moffatt Investigates, and 30 episodes of the cookery show Love Bites.

Other television work includes multiple series of Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, I’m A Celebrity: Extra Camp, and the panel show Celebability, plus Crufts Extra and Scarlett Moffatt’s Driving School.

On taking part in this year's Strictly Christmas special, Scarlett Moffatt said "Strictly has always held a special place in my heart, so being part of the Christmas Special feels truly magical. It’s the show that brings everyone together around the TV, and being part of that is a genuine personal and career highlight. I’m sure it’ll also introduce me to a few muscles I didn’t know I had. I can’t wait to live my best life on that dancefloor."

The next celebrity taking part in the 2025 Strictly Christmas special will be announced on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show with Scott Mills on Monday 24th November.

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special returns Christmas Day on BBC One