{"id":187973,"date":"2025-08-20T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/vicky-pattison-and-dani-dyer-confirmed-for-glittering-strictly-2025-line-up\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:55:00","slug":"vicky-pattison-and-dani-dyer-confirmed-for-glittering-strictly-2025-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/vicky-pattison-and-dani-dyer-confirmed-for-glittering-strictly-2025-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicky Pattison and Dani Dyer confirmed for glittering Strictly 2025 line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-08-20\" datetime=\"1755687300\" pubdate=\"\">20 August 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Season 2025 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/strictly-come-dancing\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,strictly-come-dancing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strictly Come Dancing<\/a> is shaping up to be one of the most talked-about yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Vicky Pattison<\/p>\n<p>Reality star Vicky Pattison and Love Island winner Dani Dyer have been confirmed to take on the ballroom, alongside a diverse and dynamic cast.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the kind of casting that gets the gossip mill whirring, both for the star power and the buzz around who might sparkle &#8211; or stumble &#8211; under the glitterball lights.<\/p>\n<h2>Vicky Pattison\u2019s &#8216;baptism of fire&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Vicky Pattison, once of Geordie Shore fame and later crowned Queen of the Jungle on I\u2019m a Celebrity\u2026Get Me Out of Here!, finally said yes to Strictly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Confessing on This Morning that she says she is more of a \u201cdrinker than a dancer,\u201d hoping she won\u2019t be out before Week One.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s been through the wringer already, describing her first rehearsal as a \u201cbaptism of fire\u201d &#8211; bursting with energy before practice but utterly winded afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrities\/superman-villain-ageing-drag-queen-60-year-career-terence-stamp-1428077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From Superman villain to ageing Drag Queen &#8211; the 60-year career of Terence Stamp, dead at 87\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Dani Dyer brings the charm<\/h2>\n<p>Then there\u2019s Dani Dyer, whose bubbly, down-to-earth charm has made her a fan favourite since winning Love Island in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The family-loving Londoner, daughter of Danny Dyer, called being invited to Strictly \u201cthe second most amazing thing I\u2019ve done this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But of course, Vicky and Dani are not dancing alone. The 2025 roster reads like a showbiz sampler platter.<\/p>\n<p>Making Strictly history and a star-studded cast<\/p>\n<p>Ellie Goldstein is making history as the first contestant with Down syndrome to appear in a full series.<\/p>\n<p>Her modelling credits include Gucci, Adidas, and she even made the cover of British Vogue in 2023.<\/p>\n<h3>Joining them are a host of other notable names:\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>                                                <span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alex Kingston<\/strong> (Doctor Who and ER alum)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Balvinder Sopal<\/strong> (EastEnders star)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink<\/strong> (ex-footballer)<\/li>\n<li><strong>George Clarke<\/strong> (TikTok influencer)\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>La Voix<\/strong> (drag sensation)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chris Robshaw<\/strong> (rugby legend)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cNitro\u201d Harry Aikines-Aryeetey<\/strong> (Gladiators star)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kristian Nairn<\/strong> (Neighbours\u2019 actor)\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Karen Carney<\/strong> (football pundit)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ross King (<\/strong>TV personality)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stefan Dennis<\/strong> (actor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE FROM NICOLE POWELL:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrities\/lindsay-lohan-rise-fall-rise-favourite-child-star-1427808.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Lindsay Lohan: the Rise, Fall and then Rise of our Favourite Child Star<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrities\/vicky-pattison-dani-dyer-confirmed-glittering-strictly-2025-line-1428094.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 August 2025 Season 2025 of Strictly Come Dancing is shaping up to be one of the most talked-about yet.\u00a0 Vicky Pattison Reality star Vicky Pattison and Love Island winner Dani Dyer have been confirmed to take on the ballroom, alongside a diverse and dynamic cast. It\u2019s the kind of casting that gets the gossip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3512,12178,11263],"class_list":{"0":"post-187973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-strictly-come-dancing","10":"tag-vicky-pattison"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}