The Strictly Come Dancing live tours are the highlights of lots of fans calendars (Picture: Shutterstock)
Strictly Come Dancing fans will be devastated as they will have a gaping hole in their schedules next year.
There are weeks to go until the BBC competition commences, with stars including Nick Knowles, Pete Wicks, Tasha Ghouri and Toyah Willcox joining the cast for the 2024 series.
While we’re yet to find out which professional dancers the celebrities are going to be partnered with in the line-up, some are already looking ahead to next year’s live tours.
Every year, several of the stars who competed on the programme tour the UK with the pros for live shows attended by scores of avid fans.
A separate professionals tour also takes place, with the talented pro dancers taking to the stage to show off their prowess.
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However, the BBC has confirmed the pros live tour will not be going ahead2025 due to ‘artist availability’.
The Strictly pros live tour will not take place this year, the BBC confirmed (Picture: Beretta/Sims/REX/Shutterstock)
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A spokesperson told Metro.co.uk: ‘Due to artist availability, the UK tour of Strictly The Professionals is taking a break next year, and plans are currently being finalised for 2026.’
But all is not lost as fans will be able to book tickets for the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour 2025 in due course.
The spokesperson continued: ‘Tickets for the 2025 Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour will be on sale soon and booking information will be announced in the coming weeks.’
Fans had previously expressed concern that a tour might not be on the cards next year, with a Reddit user called u/stressfulteapot writing: ‘I’m curious if there’s going to be a Strictly The Professionals or a Strictly live tour next year.
The BBC said the live tour had been cancelled due to artist availability (Picture: Mark Milan/WireImage)
‘Usually they would have announced it and probably had tickets on sale before now. A lot of the pros also seem to be doing their own solo shows next year.’
In response to the post, it was also pointed out that several of the professional dancers have already announced their own solo tours.
Dianne Buswell and Vito Coppola will be doing their own tour titled Red Hot and Ready throughout June and July next year, while Nikita Kuzmin’s show Midnight Dancer is taking place from March until May.
Meanwhile, Kai Widdrington’s tour titled Evolution is scheduled for several dates across May and June.
Dianne is embarking on a tour along with fellow pro Vito (Picture: Jo Hale/Redferns)
Reddit user called Jess-FB wrote: ‘I don’t know if they’ll have enough pros for it. Dianne and Vito won’t have a lot of time to rehearse for their own tour, Nikita is doing his own tour that clashes with it, and Graziano obviously won’t be doing it, and while the latter two could be replaced with Aljaz and Kai, well, Kai is also doing his own tour that clashes with it.
‘So they might have decided to have a break next year. It’s a shame cause my first time going was this year and I really enjoyed it, but I wouldn’t want to go unless there was someone in it who I really wanted to see.’
U/ItsallProblematic agreed, remarking: ‘I don’t think it’s happening. There are so many individual tours that surely there aren’t enough pros to do it.’
However, u/JamesL25 added: ‘They normally aren’t announced until October.’
A version of this article was first published on August 19.
Strictly Come Dancing returns later this year on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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