Although a minority, male pros and female celebrities have held most of the two top spots on the judges’ leaderboards so far in 2024. This reflects a wider trend in which male pros dominate on almost every performance metric.

However, female pros win overall when it comes to Strictly’s most important statistic, and we think they can add to their tally in 2024.

On Saturday night, Karen Hauer will become the first female professional dancer on Strictly (and only the third in total, after Brendan and Anton) to reach the milestone of performing one hundred routines with a celebrity partner on the show.

In celebration of this impressive accomplishment, let’s take a look back at some of Karen’s most memorable routines on the show.

Like all Strictly fans, we were deeply saddened to hear the news of Robin Windsor’s death. Robin danced as a Pro on the main show between 2010 and 2013 but also took part in a number of memorable Strictly specials between 2011 and 2015. In his tribute Anton described Robin as “always a star” and in ours we highlight just some of the times Robin shone super bright like the brilliant star he was.

As a Christmas Eve present to you, in this week’s blog (our final for this year) we look back at the ten professional dancers have who achieved the highest average score from routines performed in Christmas Specials.

With some miserable winter weather hitting the UK, I thought that for this week’s blog I would offer a little bit of ‘Strictly sparkle’, by highlighting some of my favourite Strictly routines that have featured colourful face paint.

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 2 of 2)

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).

We crunch the numbers to find out which Female Pro (or Pros) has the greatest number of perfect scores, as well as high scores, and so deserves to be crowned Strictly’s very own Dancing Queen.

After Richie and Giovanni’s early exit from the competition last weekend, we thought it would be fun to look over the stats to see which Professional Male dancer overall has had the most Strictly success to date.