Eagle-eyed Strictly Come Dancing fans reckon they know who the first celebrity taking part in the 2025 series is.
Speculation is currently rife, with just weeks to go until names start to be revealed for the lineup of the next series.
We really know nothing at this stage, other than that all of last year’s professionals will be back, and they’ll be joined by two new pros: Alexis Warr and Julian Caillon.
So as the BBC remains tight-lipped on this year’s cast—and in stark contrast to 2024 when Olympian Tom Dean announced himself that he was taking part—Strictly viewers have had their detective hats on.
And after Dani Dyer was spotted at the show’s studios recently, they think it’s a major sign she’s going to waltz her way onto the ballroom floor later this year.
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The 28-year-old reality star’s name has already been thrown around in the media, so ears definitely pricked up when one Reddit user shared that she’d been at the Elstree base.
‘My daughter’s a receptionist at Elstree and was super excited that she saw Dani Dyer at the studio yesterday. Something to do with Strictly??’, wrote Serendipity21sworld.
Instantly getting excited, Britishloozerr commented under the post: ‘She is rumoured actually! I guess she will be on it, she’ll be good’.
‘i’ve heard her name floating around so thats brill news x’, added Quick-Carob-2037.
Meanwhile, a sceptical strictly_brotherhood pointed out: ‘The celebs won’t be at Elstree yet’, leading to ab979 arguing it’s still a possibility.
‘Actually, last year the celebs did their costume fittings before they were announced, so it’s possible she could be at elstree for that’, they said.
Dani, the daughter of Danny Dyer, has long been rumoured to be a 2025 Strictly star, with The Sun claiming in May that she’d signed a pre-show contract and was ironing out a fee.
A source told the publication at the time: ‘Bosses are thrilled she’s agreed to take part and are ironing out her fee.
‘She’s bubbly, down-to-earth, and straight-talking, and producers reckon she’ll make an ideal contestant—not to mention the bonus of having Jarrod [Bowen] and dad Danny in the audience supporting her.’
Dani tied the knot with West Ham footballer Jarrod, 28, in the spring with a lavish ceremony.
Looking gorgeous in a £10,000 dress, the former Love Islander got married in the Buckinghamshire countryside, surrounded by her nearest and dearest, including her three young children.
Also there to celebrate her nuptials was, of course, dad Danny, with whom Dani has worked on several projects, from TV to podcasting.
The dad and daughter duo are no strangers to the small screen; hence, Dani’s reported Strictly signing would be far from the first time she’s pushed herself out of her comfort zone in front of the nation.
Rumoured celebs for Strictly 2025
- Jake Brown
- Tom Parker-Bowles
- Ashley Cain
- Stacey Solomon
- Miranda Hart
- Yinrun Huang
- Angellica Bell
While she became known to everyone in 2018’s Love Island, she’s since appeared on Celebrity Gogglebox and Celebrity MasterChef and co-presented MTV’s True Love or True Lies.
As well as her Italian travel show with her famous father, she had her own soul-baring anxiety documentary in 2023, and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief in 2019.
Some may say this makes her perfect Strictly contestant material, which is pretty much the opposite of her dad, who has made it clear he will never do it.
The 47-year-old previously revealed that he gets the call series after series, telling The Sun in his typical no-nonsense fashion: ‘I get offered to do Strictly every year, and it’s not for me. I’ve got no desire to be mincing around in sequins.’
As for the rest of Strictly 2025, it remains to be seen who will be entering the ballroom.
However, other rumoured celebs include The Traitors winner Jake Brown, Queen Camilla’s eldest son Tom Parker-Bowles, former footballer Ashley Cain, TV presenter Stacey Solomon, and comedy favourite Miranda Hart.
The BBC declined to comment.
Strictly Come Dancing returns to BBC One in autumn.
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