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Strictly Come Dancing: Series 8

Bruce Forsyth

Tess Daly

Moira Ross

Liz Trott

Ed Booth

Strictly Come Dancing: Series 8: Episode 1: Launch Show

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Episode 1: Launch Show

Series 8

BBC One - Strictly Come Dancing, Series 8, Launch Show

Fourteen eager new celebrities discover who they will be sharing the dance floor with.

Strictly Come Dancing returns with a special launch show, hosted by Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly. Fourteen new celebrities discover who they will be sharing the dance floor with.

Strictly Come Dancing is back! Kicking off the brand new series is this very special launch show, hosted by Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly. 

Fourteen eager new celebrities will discover who they'll be sharing the dance floor with as they are matched with their professional partners for the first time. How will they react?

A series of spectacular performances from the professionals will showcase this year's new set, new dance styles and three exciting new male dancers. 

And the celebrities will take to the floor for the first time to perform a group dance, watched by the ever-critical judges Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Craig Revel Horwood and Alesha Dixon.

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The eighth series of the programme in which celebrities compete in a dancing contest.

Strictly's eighth series sees 14 celebrities take to the dancefloor with their professional partners. Who will glide to victory - and who will crash out of the contest?

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