Strictly Come Dancing: Week 9 2025

Tess Daly, Claudia Winkleman and the Strictly entourage head to Blackpool's world-famous Tower Ballroom, where things get started with a routine featuring the professionals and pop superstars Steps. Over the years the Tower Ballroom's elegant surroundings have been host to thousands of amateur and professional dancers - and tonight the tradition continues as Alex Kingston, Amber Davies, Balvinider Sopal, George Clarke, Karen Carney, La Voix and Lewis Cope battle to get their names at the top of the leaderboard and avoid the fate of last week's eliminated couple, Vicky Pattison and Kai Widdrington. They'll be hoping to impress judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke, but they'll also need viewers' votes to keep them out of tomorrow's dance-off