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Strictly Come Dancing is a British dance contest show in which celebrities partner with professional dancers to compete in mainly ballroom and Latin dance. Each couple is scored by a panel of judges. The title of the show is an amalgamation of 1992 film Strictly Ballroom and long-running TV series Come Dancing. The format has been exported to 60 other countries under the title Dancing with the Stars, licensed by BBC Worldwide, and led to a modern dance-themed spin-off Strictly Dance Fever.
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William Trevorian Stuart Best is an English television presenter and entrepreneur. Best has presented numerous shows for Channel 4, ITV and the BBC including T4 on the Beach and Dance Dance Dance. He has also written articles for the HuffPost. In 2023, Best began co-hosting the ITV revival of Big Brother alongside AJ Odudu, and the pair began hosting the spin-off Celebrity Big Brother in 2024. He is a presenter on Hits Radio as of 2025.
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Strictly 2026 ratings show the first live show peaked at 5million and averaged 4.8million viewers, down year-on-year but still winning the night.
The first live show of the new Strictly Come Dancing series attracted a peak of five million viewers, the BBC has said. Over the course of the two-and-a-half-hour programme, an average of 4.8 million viewers tuned in to watch on BBC One as the latest batch of stars performed on the dancefloor with their professional…