Dani Dyer, Alex Kingston and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink enroll

Love Island winner Dani Dyer, actress Alex Kingston and ex-footballer Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink will likely be among the many celebrities collaborating within the new collection of Strictly Come Dancing, the BBC has introduced.

The trio had been unveiled on BBC One’s The One Present on Monday, because the line-up for Strictly’s twenty third collection begins to take form.

The one different contestant to have been revealed to date is Olympic sprinter Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, identified to Gladiators followers as Nitro, with the opposite celebrities anticipated to be confirmed within the coming days.

Strictly Come Dancing will air on BBC One and iPlayer from September to December.

Right here is the line-up to date:

The English actress is understood for starring in TV reveals like hit US medical drama ER (enjoying Dr Elizabeth Corday from 1997 to 2004), Physician Who (as River Tune between 2008 and 2015) and 1996’s The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (which earned her a Bafta nomination for taking part in the title position).

The 62-year-old has additionally appeared in movies together with Croupier and Boudica, and her stage credit vary from enjoying Woman Macbeth reverse Sir Kenneth Branagh to Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

In a press release asserting her participation in Strictly, she stated: “Aaaaagghhh!!!!!!”

Dani Dyer shot to fame when she starred on Love Island in 2018, successful the fact TV present with Jack Fincham. They break up later that 12 months, and he or she married West Ham striker Jarrod Bowen this Could.​

“Getting the chance to be on Strictly is the second most wonderful factor I’ve executed this 12 months!” the 29-year-old stated. “I really feel very very blessed and can’t wait to get my dancing footwear on.”

She can be identified for teaming up together with her dad, actor Danny Dyer, for a string of initiatives incduding podcasts Sorted with the Dyers and Dwell and Let Dyers, and travelogue collection Completely Dyer: Danny and Dani Do Italy.

The Dutch footballer was probably the most prolific strikers within the Premier League within the late Nineteen Nineties with Leeds United, and with Chelsea within the early 2000s. He gained 23 caps for the Netherlands.

He has gone on to handle golf equipment together with Queens Park Rangers, Northampton City and Burton Albion, and was a coach for the England nationwide facet alongside Gareth Southgate.

“Swapping the pitch for the ballroom is definitely not one thing I’ve executed earlier than however I am wanting ahead to tackling a enjoyable problem!” stated Hasselbaink, 53. “Deliver on a brand new sort of footwork, with hopefully no personal objectives.”

Aikines-Aryeetey is a former Staff GB sprinter and was the primary athlete to win gold medals at each 100m and 200m on the World Youth Championships. In 2005, aged 17, he was gained the BBC Younger Sports activities Character of the 12 months award.

He has competed at two Olympic Video games and is a three-time European champion and two-time Commonwealth champion.

In 2023, he was unveiled as Nitro in Gladiators, and took half in final 12 months’s Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Particular partnered with Nancy Xu.

“I am so excited to be a part of the Strictly household this collection and I am prepared to provide all of it I’ve obtained,” the 36-year-old stated.

Two new skilled dancers are additionally becoming a member of the line-up this 12 months – Alexis Warr, who gained US dance collection So You Assume You Can Dance in 2022, and Australian-born Julian Caillon, who has appeared as an expert dancer on three seasons of Australia’s Dancing With The Stars.

Final 12 months’s collection was gained by comic Chris McCausland, who grew to become the programme’s first blind victor, with dance associate Dianne Buswell.

However the present, which has been airing since 2004, has additionally confronted various controversies over the previous 12 months referring to the behaviour of a few of its skilled dancers and movie star company.

Final week, the BBC launched an investigation into alleged drug use by two Strictly stars, who haven’t been named, after The Solar on Sunday reported alleged cocaine use.

In the meantime, skilled dancers Giovanni Pernice and Graziano Di Prima left the present final 12 months following allegations about their behaviour in direction of their dance companions.

The BBC introduced new welfare measures for Strictly final July. These embody having chaperones in all rehearsal rooms, including two new welfare producers and offering extra coaching for the skilled dancers, manufacturing group and crew.