The new series of Strictly Come Dancing will feature 15 couples rather than the traditional 14 it has been confirmed.
Following the announcement that Iveta Lukosiute, Aljaz Skorjanec and Janette Manrara would join the professional dancer line-up, the BBC have confirmed that Kevin Clifton and Anya Garnis will also be joining. Brendan Cole, Anton du Beke, James Jordan, Robin Windsor, Artem Chigvintsev, Pasha Kovalev, Ola Jordan, Kristina Rhianoff, Natalie Lowe and Karen Hauer will all return.
This means that there will be eight female celebrities and seven male celebrities when the show returns giving the show its biggest line-up to date.
Rumours about which celebrities will be taking to the dancefloor have been circulating for weeks with Teri Hatcher, Ben Cohen and Sophie Ellis Bextor amongst them.