Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2025 - Everything you need to know

We're waltzing in a ballroom wonderland on iPlayer and BBC One

Published: 25 December 2025

The celebrity cast of the Strictly Christmas special and the professional dancers laugh and smile in a Christmas group dance on the ballroom floor — (Image: BBC/Guy Levy)

The Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2025 will see six couples battle it out under the glitterball to be crowned the Strictly Christmas Champion.

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.

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Left: Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman pose together in white outfits in a festively decorated ballroom. Right: Motsi Mabuse, Craig Revel Horwood, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke laugh as they sit on high stools raising a glass in a toast

Watch the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special on iPlayer and BBC One from 5.30pm on Christmas Day.

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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.

On the left, a man in a Santa hat stands in a doorway holding a sign that reads 'Claud, because it's Christmas', looking at a woman in a white dress. On the right, a woman in a white suit dances in hold with a man in a black suit. — (Images: BBC/Guy Levy)

And there'll be a few surprises for Tess and Claudia before they leave the ballroom...

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2025 Celebrities

Headshots of the six celebrities taking part in Strictly Come Dancing's 2025 Christmas special

Presenter and TV personality Scarlett Moffatt will be dancing with Vito Coppola
Singer and cook Melanie Blatt will be dancing with Kai Widdrington
Rugby player, athlete, broadcaster, and advocate for the deaf community Jodie Ounsley aka Fury with be dancing with Neil Jones
Actor Nicholas Bailey will be dancing with Luba Mushtuk
Award-winning stand-up comedian, actor and podcaster Babatunde Aléshé is dancing with Nancy Xu
Irish singer-songwriter Brian McFadden dances with Michelle Tsiakkas

Meet the celebrities and their professional partners as they tease their festive routines and reveal their first impressions of each other

Christmas Special Song and Dance List

The Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special celebrities and their pro partners link arms and dance in a line across the ballroom

Scarlett Moffatt and Vito Coppola - Cha Cha Cha to DJ Play A Christmas Song by Cher
Jodie Ounsley aka Fury and Neil Jones - Street/Commercial to Red Christmas by Kylie Cantrall
Nicholas Bailey and Luba Mushtuk - Viennese Waltz to It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Andy Williams
Melanie Blatt and Kai Widdrington - American Smooth to Santa Baby by The Pussycat Dolls
Brian McFadden and Michelle Tsiakkas - Jive to Run Rudolph Run by Kelly Clarkson
Babatunde Aléshé and Nancy Xu - Charleston to Santa Claus is Coming to Town by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters

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