Who are the best professionals on Strictly Come Dancing? In this post we calculate an average score for each pro dancer based on an average of their top scores for each different dance style performed on the show. (Part 1 of 2).

In anticipation of Series 21, we take a look back to December 2020 when Covid scuppered the usual Strictly Christmas Special, and instead a show was broadcast counting down the top 25 most memorable routines in Strictly history to that point, which had been voted for online by the public.

With four celebrities already confirmed, we take a look at who may grab the remaining competition spaces in Strictly Come Dancing 2023.

It’s Spring already and we’ve blossoming news and rumours of potential Celebs joining the 2023 cast, relationships growing, babies arriving soon and much more!

Into February already and the Strictly news and rumour mill keeps on turning. Romance, weddings, babies, who’s joining and leaving – get the latest here in your Strictly News and Rumour round-up for February 2023.

With Series 20 behind us, the Strictly world packs away its glittery decorations for another year. So to help plug that mirrorball shaped hole in our lives just a little bit, we’ve decided to share monthly round-ups of Strictly related news and rumours in the media.

To date Christmas Special Professionals have consisted of those that suffered an early elimination in that year’s Series or (even worse) hadn’t been partnered with a celebrity at all. Here we look back at previous Specials, to see whether a Christmas appearance led to bigger and better things the following year.

We’ve built a system that checks different web sources for Strictly news, blogs and podcasts and updates throughout the day as we find them.

We hope you’ve enjoyed sharing the exhilarating 13-week 2022 Strictly journey here with us at strictlydb.com – for us, it’s been a brilliant starting series for our labour-of-love project and we look forward to many more to come, so a big thank you to all our users. We couldn’t leave this Series without highlighting some of the most significant moments from last night’s fantastic Final – so here are 6 fabulous facts worthy of note.

Who is the greatest Strictly Come Dancing Champion of all time? We took a look at the data and created a Champions Leaderboard to see if it would reveal the answer…