The breaks include dance lessons, meet and greets, live music and stars including Tommy Blaize, Lance Ellington, Patrick Smyth, Dianne Buswell, Amy Dowden, Graziano Di Prima, Nikita Kuzmin, and Neil Jones

Strictly Come Dancing is known for its glitz and glam - but are tickets still available for the live audience?

EXCLUSIVE: TV presenter Angela Scanlon has opened up exclusively to Express.co.uk about the one dance that she's not looking forward to performing in front of an audience.

EXCLUSIVE: Strictly Come Dancing's Nikita Kanda is excited for the upcoming Saturday evening dance show and is even looking forward to being critiqued by "crazy" judge Craig Revel Horwood.

Strictly's Les Dennis has revealed why he's agreed to join the show this year, after previously turning it down. Find out more here.

EXCLUSIVE: This year's Strictly Come Dancing line up has sparked a lot of excitement, not least because original Come Dancing star Angela Rippon has signed up.

Nigel Harman said he has filmed his last Casualty scenes

Adorable!

From where the show’s name comes from to the lowest scoring dance

West End star Layton Williams has revealed his playlist

The actor says EastEnders and Corrie have nothing on Emmerdale.

There may be a few celebs to watch closely this season.

The actor and TV presenter was asked to do Strictly Come Dancing "once before", but had to decline.

Joe admitted he was a fan of a secret 'quick step'.

This year's celebrity dancers tell all ahead of the dancing competition's launch show.

Sounds like agony!

Rippon is the oldest ever contestant to take part in Strictly Come Dancing.

EXCLUSIVE: The countdown for this year's Strictly Come Dancing has officially begun, and former EastEnders star Nigel Harman is preparing to take to the dancefloor.