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.

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.

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).

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 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.

Every new professional dancer on Strictly wants to make a good early impression, and one of the easiest ways to do so is to receive a 10 from one (or more) of the judges. So which Pro took the fewest number of routines to receive their first ever 10?

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.