Melanie Blatt is the second celebrity contestant confirmed for the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2025

Melanie is a singer and cook

Published: 08:13 am, 24 November 2025

A woman with blonde hair smiles to camera in a yellow top, set against a background of snowy Christmas trees

If you can't have a dance at Christmas, when can you?! I'm so excited to meet Kai and start training to make this a dance to remember.
— Melanie Blatt

Melanie Blatt is the second celebrity announced to take part in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special, made by BBC Studios and airing on BBC One and BBC iPlayer this Christmas.

Melanie will be paired with Strictly Come Dancing Professional Dancer Kai Widdrington when she enters the Strictly Christmas ballroom this December.

Melanie is a singer and cook, who rose to international fame in the 1990s as a member of the multi-platinum-selling, award-winning All Saints. As part of the band, Melanie had five UK number one hit singles and won two BRIT awards, selling over 10 million albums worldwide.

In recent years Melanie has founded her own gourmet burger business and has appeared on television as a finalist in Celebrity Masterchef, in the second series of Celebrity Race Across The World, on Taskmaster’s New Year Treat, and as a contributor in the documentary series Girlbands Forever.

On joining Strictly Come Dancing this Christmas, Melanie Blatt says: "If you can't have a dance at Christmas, when can you?! I'm so excited to meet Kai and start training to make this a dance to remember."

This year’s Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special will see six couples battle it out under the glitterball to be crowned the Strictly Christmas Champion. Hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman will oversee the festivities for their final time, while Head Judge Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, and Anton Du Beke will all be on hand to dish out sleigh-loads of advice, Christmas cheer and the odd lump of coal - before the voting studio audience will decide who wins. Expect a winter wonderland full of festive magic, dazzling group dances, live music and more in what will be the perfect antidote to the post-Christmas Dinner slump.

Melanie joins the previously announced Scarlett Moffatt in Strictly’s festive line-up. The remaining four celebrities taking part in the 2025 Strictly Christmas special will be announced across this week on Strictly: It Takes Two at 6.30pm on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.

The Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special is a BBC Studios Entertainment Production for the BBC. It was commissioned by Kalpna Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment at the BBC. The Executive Producer for BBC Studios is Sarah James, and Strictly’s Christmas Series Editor is Kim Allinson. The Senior Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Jo Wallace.

The Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer this Christmas.