STRICTLY COME DANCING: JOSH WIDDICOMBE FIRST CELEBRITY CONFIRMED FOR CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

The Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special is back as the ballroom is once again transformed into a magical winter wonderland. The first celebrity has tonight been revealed on Strictly: It Takes Two.

On Strictly: It Takes Two on BBC Two and iPlayer this evening, Josh Widdicombe was announced as the first celebrity included in 2024’s Christmas line up, he will be paired with Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer Karen Hauer.

Expect festive cheer, jingle bells, mistletoe madness, bedazzling baubles and six celebrities all sleighing their way to Elstree in a bid to be crowned the Strictly Christmas Champion 2024. Josh is a comedian, podcaster and author. 

Stand-up comedian Josh Widdicombe has starred in over thirty series of Channel 4’s The Last Leg as a team captain. Josh co-hosts the hugely successful podcast Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and has written two Sunday Times Bestselling books. He has appeared on multiple comedy panel shows including Smart TV, QI, A League Of Their Own, Have I Got News For You and Taskmaster, to name a few. He's performed onstage at the Royal Albert Hall for The Royal Variety Performance and hosted Live At The Apollo.  

Josh Widdicombe said: “I am utterly terrified this will end in humiliation and worried I’m going to be so bad I will ruin Christmas for the nation. Why have I done this?” 

In the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special, produced by BBC Studios, each of the six couples will perform a festive fuelled routine in the hope of impressing the judges, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke and Head Judge Shirley Ballas, and the voting studio audience. But who will emerge the Christmas star of the evening, and lift the sought after Christmas trophy?  

The remaining Christmas line up will be announced on Strictly: It Takes Two in due course.