Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 17 (click to see context) from:
* "Lads' mag favourite" female who does quite well.
to:
* "Lads' mag "[[PageThreeStunna Lads' mag]] favourite" female [[MsFanservice female]] who does quite well.
Changed line(s) 19 (click to see context) from:
* Well-known, somewhat hunky, sportsman.
to:
* Well-known, somewhat hunky, sportsman.{{hunk}}y, [[MrFanservice sportsman]].
Changed line(s) 21 (click to see context) from:
* Slightly larger "novelty act"
to:
* Slightly larger "novelty act"act".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 13,14 (click to see context) from:
Arlene Phillips was a judge until 2009, but was replaced with 2007 champion Alesha Dixon, much to the disgust of news hacks the land over. Dixon jumped ship for ''BritainsGotTalent'' after three series, whereupon Darcey Bussell took over permanently.
to:
Arlene Phillips was a judge until 2009, but was replaced with 2007 champion Alesha Dixon, much to the disgust of news hacks the land over. Dixon jumped ship for ''BritainsGotTalent'' ''Series/BritainsGotTalent'' after three series, whereupon Darcey Bussell took over permanently.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,4 (click to see context) from:
The show debuted in 2004. Now (2015) on its thirteenth season, it's a Celebrity TalentShow in which 14 celebrities are paired up with professional dancers, the latter of whom have to teach the former how to dance. They dance each week and one couple is voted off each week via a combination of judges' scores and public voting until the the final, which is decided by audience vote alone.[[note]]The final is generally meant to have three couples, although in several years one couple has had to drop out and there have been only two finalists as a result, and since 2012 there have been four finalists.[[/note]]
to:
The show debuted in 2004. Now (2015) on its thirteenth season, it's a Celebrity TalentShow in which 14 15 celebrities are paired up with professional dancers, the latter of whom have to teach the former how to dance. They dance each week and one couple is voted off each week via a combination of judges' scores and public voting until the the final, which is decided by audience vote alone.[[note]]The final is generally meant to have three couples, although in several years one couple has had to drop out and there have been only two finalists as a result, and since 2012 there have been four finalists.[[/note]]
Added DiffLines:
* JokeCharacter: There will inevitably be a few celebrities each series who actively can't dance. At least one of them will probably turn into a LethalJokeCharacter if they get the public vote on side, surviving over several better dancers before going out once there's nobody left they can credibly stay in ahead of.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22,23 (click to see context) from:
* Actor or Actresses from a soap opera (generally ''EastEnders'' or ''CoronationStreet''). May overlap with any other categories.
to:
* Actor or Actresses from a soap opera (generally ''EastEnders'' ''Series/EastEnders'' or ''CoronationStreet'').''Series/CoronationStreet''). May overlap with any other categories.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 42 (click to see context) from:
* AlwaysSecondBest: Professional dancer Kevin Clifton has finished as runner-up three years running (the only professional to do so), which is currently every year he's been on the show.
to:
* AlwaysSecondBest: Professional dancer Kevin Clifton has finished as runner-up three years running (the only professional to do so), be runner-up more than once without winning, let alone ''three years in a row''), which is currently every year he's been on the show.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 39,40 (click to see context) from:
* Series 13 (2015): Jay McGuiness, beating Kellie Bright and Georgia May Foote
to:
* Series 13 (2015): Jay McGuiness, [=McGuiness=], beating Kellie Bright and Georgia May Foote
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* AlwaysSecondBest: Professional dancer Kevin Clifton has finished as runner-up three years running (the only professional to do so), which is currently every year he's been on the show.
** Subverted by another pro, Pasha Kovalev, who finished as runner-up twice in his first two years and looked like he was going to go the same way when he got into the final again with Caroline Flack two years later (as they'd already been in the dance-off, which is generally a sign that you're unlikely to win), but they managed to beat the favourites and win. (Ironically, the favourite they beat was Frankie Bridge, who was dancing with Kevin.)
** Subverted by another pro, Pasha Kovalev, who finished as runner-up twice in his first two years and looked like he was going to go the same way when he got into the final again with Caroline Flack two years later (as they'd already been in the dance-off, which is generally a sign that you're unlikely to win), but they managed to beat the favourites and win. (Ironically, the favourite they beat was Frankie Bridge, who was dancing with Kevin.)
Changed line(s) 47 (click to see context) from:
* ButtMonkey: Anton du Beke is definitely this amongst the professional dancers; he has been on every series to date, has never received a 10, and never had he reached the final prior to Series 13 with Katie Derham. His recent pairings with Ann Widdecombe and Nancy Dell'Olio have only cemented his status as this.
to:
* ButtMonkey: Anton du Beke is definitely this amongst the professional dancers; he has been on every series to date, date (one of only do pros to do so), has never received a 10, and never had he reached the final prior to Series 13 with Katie Derham. His recent pairings with Ann Widdecombe and Nancy Dell'Olio have only cemented his status as this.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 74 (click to see context) from:
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: where the judges' comments are concerned, there ''is'' no radar and they get away with saying the most outrageous things to the contestants. Also, the Wembley show in the 2011 series included performances to two songs that were, not to put too fine a point on it, about filthy sex: "Relax" and "Come On Eileen". The former had actually been heavily sanitised ("Relax" without the sexual references!) when it was used on sister show SoYouThinkYouCanDance a few months earlier.
to:
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: where the judges' comments are concerned, there ''is'' no radar and they get away with saying the most outrageous things to the contestants. Also, the Wembley show in the 2011 series included performances to two songs that were, not to put too fine a point on it, about filthy sex: "Relax" and "Come On Eileen". The former had actually been heavily sanitised ("Relax" without the sexual references!) when it was used on sister show SoYouThinkYouCanDance ''Series/SoYouThinkYouCanDance'' a few months earlier.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 108 (click to see context) from:
** Anton getting stuck with older female contestants that can't dance and the subsequent mockery of this; this said, he has done rather well so far with Katie Derham this year (2015).
to:
** Anton getting stuck with older female contestants that can't dance and the subsequent mockery of this; this said, he has done rather finally did well so far with Katie Derham this year Derham, ending up in the final (2015).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 39 (click to see context) from:
to:
* Series 13 (2015): Jay McGuiness, beating Kellie Bright and Georgia May Foote
Changed line(s) 46 (click to see context) from:
* ButtMonkey: Anton du Beke is definitely this amongst the professional dancers; he has been on every series to date, and has never made the final or received a 10. His recent pairings with Ann Widdecombe and Nancy Dell'Olio have only cemented his status as this.
to:
* ButtMonkey: Anton du Beke is definitely this amongst the professional dancers; he has been on every series to date, and has never made the final or received a 10.10, and never had he reached the final prior to Series 13 with Katie Derham. His recent pairings with Ann Widdecombe and Nancy Dell'Olio have only cemented his status as this.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Well duh. Most of the outfits will have some sparkles on them.
Added DiffLines:
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: One dance in the 2015 season saw a bucket of confetti being thrown over the judges. Shortly after this, Darcey could be seen trying to pick bits of confetti out from her cleavage. Likewise when she was giving her opinion, Craig was picking the confetti out of her hair.
Added DiffLines:
* ImportantHaircut: Jay [=McGuinness=] was convinced by his partner to chop off his shoulder length curls in order to look more presentable. He ended up winning the season.
Added DiffLines:
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There's typically been one female judge on the panel, versus three males. It was at first Arlene Philips, then Aleisha Dixon and currently Darcey Bussell. But as of the 2014 season both presenters are now female. In fact as noted above, Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are the first female duo to have ever presented a Saturday evening show.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BeardOfEvil: Craig has grown these in the 2014 and 2015 season for his {{Pantomime}} role as Captain Hook in ''Peter Pan''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 67 (click to see context) from:
* FunnyForeigner: Bruno Tonioli- he wouldn't be able to get away with half of what he says (see GettingCrapPastTheRadar) if he didn't have the 'Franc from FatherOfTheBride' persona, and thank god he does because he's brilliant!
to:
* FunnyForeigner: Bruno Tonioli- he wouldn't be able to get away with half of what he says (see GettingCrapPastTheRadar) if he didn't have the 'Franc from FatherOfTheBride' Film/FatherOfTheBride' persona, and thank god he does because he's brilliant!
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 5,6 (click to see context) from:
Hosted by BruceForsyth and Tess Daly until the 2014 series, Brucie is now doing specials only, with his role being taken over by previous Sunday show host Claudia Winkleman, the first both-female presenting duo in a British Saturday evening show.[[note]]In the second series Tess was replaced by first series champion Natasha Kaplinsky for the first half due to pregnancy, and in November 2014 Claudia was replaced with Zoe Ball for three weeks due to family matters.[[/note]]
to:
Hosted by BruceForsyth and Tess Daly until the 2014 series, Brucie is now doing specials only, with his role being taken over by previous Sunday show host Claudia Winkleman, the first both-female presenting duo in a British Saturday evening show.[[note]]In the second series Tess was replaced by first series champion Natasha Kaplinsky for the first half due to pregnancy, and in November 2014 Claudia was replaced with Zoe Ball for three weeks due to family matters.matters, namely her daughter suffering severe burns when a Halloween costume caught alight.[[/note]]
Changed line(s) 80 (click to see context) from:
** Averted for the Saturday show, which has led to more than one embarrassing incident; Bruno used an expletive meaning "nonsense" live on air (the expression in question ''is'' usable before the {{watershed}} but strongly frowned upon in a show intended as wholesome family entertainment) and during an argument Len called Craig a "silly sod".
to:
** Averted for the Saturday show, which has led to more than one embarrassing incident; Bruno used an expletive meaning "nonsense" live on air (the expression in question ''is'' usable before the {{watershed}} but strongly frowned upon in a show intended as wholesome family entertainment) and during amd later compared a dance to dogs' testicles. During an argument Len once called Craig a "silly sod".
* LovelyAssistant: Tess Daly.
* NiceHat: Claudia has been known to wear these, randomly, on occasion.
Changed line(s) 101,102 (click to see context) from:
** Anton getting stuck with contestants that can't dance and the subsequent mockery of this.
* SensualSlavs: A lot of the female dancers including Kristina Rhianov, Ola Jordan, Lilia Kopylova and Aliona Vilani hail from former Soviet bloc countries.
* SensualSlavs: A lot of the female dancers including Kristina Rhianov, Ola Jordan, Lilia Kopylova and Aliona Vilani hail from former Soviet bloc countries.
to:
** Anton getting stuck with older female contestants that can't dance and the subsequent mockery of this.
this; this said, he has done rather well so far with Katie Derham this year (2015).
* SensualSlavs: A lot of the female dancers including KristinaRhianov, Rhianoff, Ola Jordan, Lilia Kopylova and Aliona Vilani hail from former Soviet bloc countries.
* SensualSlavs: A lot of the female dancers including Kristina
Changed line(s) 112,113 (click to see context) from:
** John Sergeant himself actually was rather an aversion to this trope - he was not a performer, and he was certainly '''''not''''' a technician! In fact, this was what lead to him repeatedly stating in interviews that he was surprised and dismayed at the fact that the public kept voting to keep him in the competition, as he was neither good at the technical aspects of dancing nor good at performing, and felt he was just a big joke.
* UpToEleven: The Wembley Arena shows tend to go for this wherever possible.
* UpToEleven: The Wembley Arena shows tend to go for this wherever possible.
to:
** John Sergeant himself actually was rather an aversion to this trope - he was not a performer, and he was certainly '''''not''''' a technician! In fact, this was what lead to him repeatedly stating in interviews that he was surprised and dismayed at the fact that the public kept voting to keep him in the competition, as he was neither good at the technical aspects of dancing nor good at performing, and felt he was just a big joke. \n This saga was well enough known that it was cited multiple times in discussions of the 2015 Labour leadership contest with regards to Jeremy Corbyn.
* UpToEleven: The Wembley Arena and Blackpool Tower shows tend to go for this wherever possible.
* UpToEleven: The Wembley Arena and Blackpool Tower shows tend to go for this wherever possible.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,4 (click to see context) from:
The show debuted in 2004. Now (2014) on its twelfth season, it's a Celebrity TalentShow in which 14 celebrities are paired up with professional dancers, the latter of whom have to teach the former how to dance. They dance each week and one couple is voted off each week via a combination of judges' scores and public voting until the the final, which is decided by audience vote alone.[[note]]The final is generally meant to have three couples, although in several years one couple has had to drop out and there have been only two finalists as a result, and since 2012 there have been four finalists.[[/note]]
to:
The show debuted in 2004. Now (2014) (2015) on its twelfth thirteenth season, it's a Celebrity TalentShow in which 14 celebrities are paired up with professional dancers, the latter of whom have to teach the former how to dance. They dance each week and one couple is voted off each week via a combination of judges' scores and public voting until the the final, which is decided by audience vote alone.[[note]]The final is generally meant to have three couples, although in several years one couple has had to drop out and there have been only two finalists as a result, and since 2012 there have been four finalists.[[/note]]
Added DiffLines:
* LongRunnerCastTurnover: The professional lineup; as of the 2015 series, only Anton and Brendan have appeared in all thirteen series.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
*HurricaneofPuns: Claudia has a tendency to do lot of puns related to the contestants profession when reading out the numbers for voting.
Added DiffLines:
** Anton getting stuck with contestants that can't dance and the subsequent mockery of this.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 74 (click to see context) from:
** Louis Smith; a hunky, likable gymnast who'd won a silver medal at the [[OlympicGames London Olympics]] three months before the show. Everyone had called him as the Series 10 winner from the very start[[note]]or at least after fellow Olympic medallist Victoria Pendleton turned out to be such an awful dancer[[/note]].
to:
** Louis Smith; a hunky, likable gymnast who'd won a silver medal at the [[OlympicGames [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames London Olympics]] three months before the show. Everyone had called him as the Series 10 winner from the very start[[note]]or at least after fellow Olympic medallist Victoria Pendleton turned out to be such an awful dancer[[/note]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 47,48 (click to see context) :
* TheCastShowoff: Matt Baker, one of the contestants in 2010, is a trained gymnast and competed for Britain when he was younger. Over the course of the series he did 2 cartwheels, 3 consecutive backflips and a back somersault off the judges' desk (although this wasn't to compensate for being a poor dancer - he was one of the frontrunners of the competition and ultimately came second). Oh, and he can also ride a unicycle.
** Louis Smith, the winner of Series 10, is an Olympic gymnast, and they certainly make use of his abilities in his routines.
** Louis Smith, the winner of Series 10, is an Olympic gymnast, and they certainly make use of his abilities in his routines.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** Pixie Lott looked set up to be this in Series 12, as she seemed completely unbeatable. Her low approval rating with viewers however led to her finally being booted from the show.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** Flavia Cacace also deserves a mention here.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** Also a scoring catchphrase from Len- "It's a ten from Len"
** In recent series, closing the show with "Keeeeep dancing!"
** In recent series, closing the show with "Keeeeep dancing!"
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** Louis Smith, the winner of Series 10, is an Olympic gymnast, and they certainly make use of his abilities in his routines.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 42 (click to see context) from:
** Iveta Lukosiute first appeared as a reserve pro in Series 10, briefly covering for Aliona Vilani and Ola Jordan in a couple of weeks due to injury and family emergency. She then became a regular in Series 11.
to:
** Iveta Lukosiute first appeared as a reserve pro in Series 10, briefly covering for Aliona Vilani and Ola Jordan in a couple of weeks due to injury and family emergency. She then became a regular in Series 11.11.
** During 'The Peoples Strictly', as Craig was unable to be a judge due to prior commitments, professional Anton du Beke, famous for his disagreements with the judges, took Craig's chair on the judging panel.
** During 'The Peoples Strictly', as Craig was unable to be a judge due to prior commitments, professional Anton du Beke, famous for his disagreements with the judges, took Craig's chair on the judging panel.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 5,6 (click to see context) from:
Hosted by BruceForsyth and Tess Daly until the 2014 series, Brucie is now doing specials only, with his role being taken over by previous Sunday show host Claudia Winkleman, the first both-female presenting duo in a British Saturday evening show.[[note]]In the second series Tess was replaced by first series champion Natasha Kaplinsky due to November 2014 Claudia was replaced with Zoe Ball for three weeks due to family matters.[[/note]]
to:
Hosted by BruceForsyth and Tess Daly until the 2014 series, Brucie is now doing specials only, with his role being taken over by previous Sunday show host Claudia Winkleman, the first both-female presenting duo in a British Saturday evening show.[[note]]In the second series Tess was replaced by first series champion Natasha Kaplinsky for the first half due to pregnancy, and in November 2014 Claudia was replaced with Zoe Ball for three weeks due to family matters.[[/note]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 49 (click to see context) from:
* ChristmasEpisode: As the BBC's only really successful light-entertainment show in recent years, this rapidly became a staple of the Christmas schedules. Initially this took the format of inviting back past contestants alongside the top three from the most recent series in a standalone competition; in 2010 it was changed to feature new celebrities who didn't have time to do the full series.
to:
* ChristmasEpisode: As the BBC's only really successful light-entertainment show in recent years, this rapidly became a staple of the Christmas schedules. Initially this took the format of inviting back past contestants alongside the top three from the most recent series in a standalone competition; in 2010 it was changed to feature new celebrities who didn't have time to do the full series.series, but in 2014 reverted to an 'All-Stars' format.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,6 (click to see context) from:
The show debuted in 2004. Now (2014) on its twelfth season, it's a Celebrity TalentShow in which 14 celebrities are paired up with professional dancers, the latter of whom have to teach the former how to dance. They dance each week and one couple is voted off each week via a combination of judges' scores and public voting until the final three compete in the final, which is decided by audience vote alone.[[note]]Although in several years one couple has had to drop out and there have been only two finalists as a result, and in 2012 there were four finalists.[[/note]]
Hosted by BruceForsyth until the 2014 series (Brucie now is doing specials only), the show has now been taken over by previous Sunday show hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, the first both-female presenting duo in a British Saturday evening show. In November 2014 Claudia was replaced with Zoe Ball due to family matters, for an unspecified length of time.
Hosted by BruceForsyth until the 2014 series (Brucie now is doing specials only), the show has now been taken over by previous Sunday show hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, the first both-female presenting duo in a British Saturday evening show. In November 2014 Claudia was replaced with Zoe Ball due to family matters, for an unspecified length of time.
to:
The show debuted in 2004. Now (2014) on its twelfth season, it's a Celebrity TalentShow in which 14 celebrities are paired up with professional dancers, the latter of whom have to teach the former how to dance. They dance each week and one couple is voted off each week via a combination of judges' scores and public voting until the final three compete in the final, which is decided by audience vote alone.[[note]]Although [[note]]The final is generally meant to have three couples, although in several years one couple has had to drop out and there have been only two finalists as a result, and in since 2012 there were have been four finalists.[[/note]]
Hosted by BruceForsyth and Tess Daly until the 2014series (Brucie series, Brucie is now is doing specials only), the show has now been only, with his role being taken over by previous Sunday show hosts Tess Daly and host Claudia Winkleman, the first both-female presenting duo in a British Saturday evening show. In show.[[note]]In the second series Tess was replaced by first series champion Natasha Kaplinsky due to November 2014 Claudia was replaced with Zoe Ball for three weeks due to family matters, for an unspecified length of time.
matters.[[/note]]
Hosted by BruceForsyth and Tess Daly until the 2014
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 36 (click to see context) from:
* Series 10 (2012): Louis Smith, beating Denise van Outen and Kimberley Walsh
to:
* Series 10 (2012): Louis Smith, beating Denise van Outen and [[Music/GirlsAloud Kimberley WalshWalsh]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
cheeky cockney isn\'t a trope.
Deleted line(s) 41 (click to see context) :
* ActorAllusion: If a routine can include a reference to what the celebrity is known for, it will. Examples include Matt Baker's countryside-themed cha-cha-cha, Jason Donovan's ''PriscillaQueenOfTheDesert'' tango and Victoria Pendleton dancing a paso doble to [[{{Queen}} "Bicycle Race"]].
Deleted line(s) 50 (click to see context) :
* CheekyCockney: Len Goodman
Changed line(s) 60 (click to see context) from:
** Also a TruthInTelevision, as outfits on the professional and even amateur ballroom and latin circuits can be surprisingly racey.
to:
** Also a TruthInTelevision, as outfits on the professional and even amateur ballroom and latin Latin circuits can be surprisingly racey.racy.
Changed line(s) 77 (click to see context) from:
** Averted for the Saturday show, which has led to more than one embarassing incident; Bruno used an expletive meaning "nonsense" live on air (the expression in question ''is'' usable before the {{watershed}} but strongly frowned upon in a show intended as wholesome family entertainment) and during an argument Len called Craig a "silly sod".
to:
** Averted for the Saturday show, which has led to more than one embarassing embarrassing incident; Bruno used an expletive meaning "nonsense" live on air (the expression in question ''is'' usable before the {{watershed}} but strongly frowned upon in a show intended as wholesome family entertainment) and during an argument Len called Craig a "silly sod".
Changed line(s) 105 (click to see context) from:
* TeamDad: Len Goodman, head judge and on the whole one of the most generous judges. He's got a bit more finikity lately probably to compensate for the loss of Arlene (who with Craig made up the 'harsh' side of the judges) but still very generous and warm towards contestants adding the human touch to technical criticisms.
to:
* TeamDad: Len Goodman, head judge and on the whole one of the most generous judges. He's got a bit more finikity finicky lately probably to compensate for the loss of Arlene (who with Craig made up the 'harsh' side of the judges) but still very generous and warm towards contestants adding the human touch to technical criticisms.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 90 (click to see context) :
* RomanceOnTheSet: A number of celebs have ended up in relationships with their professionals. They haven't tended to last.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
This entry discusses the British version of ''Strictly'', a show known under its U.S. version as ''DancingWithTheStars''. There are several other versions, which can go into their own entries.
The show debuted in 2004. Now (2014) on its twelfth season, it's a Celebrity TalentShow in which 14 celebrities are paired up with professional dancers, the latter of whom have to teach the former how to dance. They dance each week and one couple is voted off each week via a combination of judges' scores and public voting until the final three compete in the final, which is decided by audience vote alone.[[note]]Although in several years one couple has had to drop out and there have been only two finalists as a result, and in 2012 there were four finalists.[[/note]]
Hosted by BruceForsyth until the 2014 series (Brucie now is doing specials only), the show has now been taken over by previous Sunday show hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, the first both-female presenting duo in a British Saturday evening show. In November 2014 Claudia was replaced with Zoe Ball due to family matters, for an unspecified length of time.
Each dance is marked out of ten by the four judges who consist of:
* Craig Revel Horwood - theatre choreographer and director; the nastiest and most brutally honest of the four judges. Likes anything innovative or unusual.
* Darcey Bussell - former prima ballerina; previously guest-judged the final stages of the 2009 series before taking over permanently in 2012.
* Len Goodman - professional ballroom dancer and coach; the head judge and has a tendency to be nicer, although he is a traditionalist.
* Bruno Tonioli - choreographer for TV and film; generally quite generous, flamboyant and CampGay (Craig is bisexual, but it's less obvious with him).
Arlene Phillips was a judge until 2009, but was replaced with 2007 champion Alesha Dixon, much to the disgust of news hacks the land over. Dixon jumped ship for ''BritainsGotTalent'' after three series, whereupon Darcey Bussell took over permanently.
Some recurring types of contestant appear:
* Late-middle-aged male TV presenter who usually goes out in the first couple of rounds. Unless we're talking about John Sergeant, who survived nine rounds due to the public vote, despite low judge markings and active statements by them that he should go, before sensationally pulling out of the 2008 contest on 19 November.
* "Lads' mag favourite" female who does quite well.
* Medium-fame female singer.
* Well-known, somewhat hunky, sportsman.
* ChristmasCake older actress.
* Slightly larger "novelty act"
* Actor or Actresses from a soap opera (generally ''EastEnders'' or ''CoronationStreet''). May overlap with any other categories.
The show also has an attributed 'curse of Strictly', with a string of widely-publicised breakups between celebrities and their established partners, sometimes in favour of the pro they were paired with for the show.
The winners to date are:
* Series 1 (spring 2004): Natasha Kaplinsky, beating Christopher Parker
* Series 2 (autumn 2004): Jill Halfpenny, beating Denise Lewis and Julian Clary
* Series 3 (2005): Darren Gough, beating Colin Jackson and Zoe Ball
* Series 4 (2006): Mark Ramprakash, beating Matt Dawson
* Series 5 (2007): Alesha Dixon, beating Matt Di Angelo
* Series 6 (2008): Tom Chambers, beating Rachel Stevens and Lisa Snowdon
* Series 7 (2009): Chris Hollins, beating Ricky Whittle
* Series 8 (2010): Kara Tointon, beating Matt Baker and Pamela Stephenson
* Series 9 (2011): Harry Judd, beating Chelsee Healey and Jason Donovan
* Series 10 (2012): Louis Smith, beating Denise van Outen and Kimberley Walsh
* Series 11 (2013): Abbey Clancy, beating Natalie Gumede and Susanna Reid
* Series 12 (2014): Caroline Flack, beating Frankie Bridge and Simon Webbe
!!This show contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: If a routine can include a reference to what the celebrity is known for, it will. Examples include Matt Baker's countryside-themed cha-cha-cha, Jason Donovan's ''PriscillaQueenOfTheDesert'' tango and Victoria Pendleton dancing a paso doble to [[{{Queen}} "Bicycle Race"]].
* AscendedExtra: A lot of the professional dancers are now recognised as celebrities in their own right, and the show has capitalised on this by making a big deal of which celebrity gets which pro and pairing them up live in the studio.
** Iveta Lukosiute first appeared as a reserve pro in Series 10, briefly covering for Aliona Vilani and Ola Jordan in a couple of weeks due to injury and family emergency. She then became a regular in Series 11.
* BrutalHonesty: Craig can and will tell the contestants just how bad their dancing was in both his comments and markings. The other three use the paddles for less than 5 once or twice a series at best.
* ButtMonkey: Anton du Beke is definitely this amongst the professional dancers; he has been on every series to date, and has never made the final or received a 10. His recent pairings with Ann Widdecombe and Nancy Dell'Olio have only cemented his status as this.
* CampGay: Bruno and Robin. Not to mention Russell Grant in 2011 and Julian Clary in 2004. Craig too seems to have gotten more and more camp over the years, especially in the side-show "It Takes Two"
* TheCastShowoff: Matt Baker, one of the contestants in 2010, is a trained gymnast and competed for Britain when he was younger. Over the course of the series he did 2 cartwheels, 3 consecutive backflips and a back somersault off the judges' desk (although this wasn't to compensate for being a poor dancer - he was one of the frontrunners of the competition and ultimately came second). Oh, and he can also ride a unicycle.
* CatchPhrase: As well as Brucie's personal phrases, usually "Nice to see you" but he's used others, Len Goodman has a particular way of pronouncing "Seven" (''Seerrrvvvvveeeeen!'')
** Goodman and Forsyth did a gag where the latter asked a series of questions to which the former would answer "Seven", concluding with "What river runs through Bristol?" "Sevvvveerrrrrrnnnnn!". Next week, they had to do it again, properly, as people pointed out the Severn doesn't run through Bristol. It's the Avon...
* CheekyCockney: Len Goodman
* ChristmasEpisode: As the BBC's only really successful light-entertainment show in recent years, this rapidly became a staple of the Christmas schedules. Initially this took the format of inviting back past contestants alongside the top three from the most recent series in a standalone competition; in 2010 it was changed to feature new celebrities who didn't have time to do the full series.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Most of the professional dancers have their own specialist field of dancing and can struggle when they have to choreograph, teach and perform in a style they're not used to. Anton Du Beke in particular is a superb ballroom dancer, but his Latin routines are notoriously poor.
* DemotedToExtra: The fate of some of the professional dancers who weren't asked to partner celebrities in the 2010 series; those who agreed were put into a "professional dance troupe". The following year the dance troupe was removed, although Ian Waite is apparently too popular to lose altogether as he still regularly appears on ''It Takes Two'' and occasionally partners celebrities in special charity or Christmas editions.
* DramaticPause: taken to excess at times. TheReveal of who's out in each episode takes ''ages''.
* EliminationCatchphrase: "It's the moment of truth."
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer : Visit the SCD forums and count how often the name "Ola Jordan" appears in close proximity to the phrase "girl crush".
* {{Fanservice}}: The costumes of a lot of the female dancers (particularly the professional ones) qualify, especially Lilia Kopylova and Ola Jordan, and sometimes the men as well.
** Ola once wore a SexyBacklessOutfit black animal print number with AbsoluteCleavage. It looked like it had been sprayed on.
** Ola is married to James Jordan, another of the professionals (although he has now left the show). Does that make her [[MsFanservice Mrs Fanservice]]?
** Also a TruthInTelevision, as outfits on the professional and even amateur ballroom and latin circuits can be surprisingly racey.
** Contestants tend to up this as they go along; mainly as they've lost a lot of weight during all the training.
* {{Filler}}: Brucie can do filler like nobody's business.
** The VT's played before each routine can count as this.
* FourPointScale: For Len and Alesha at least (even [[BrainBleach Ann Widdecombe's salsa]] warranted a 4 from them). Craig and to a lesser extent Bruno avert this.
** Arlene also averted it to a degree; so far she's the only judge other than Craig to have ever given a 1[[note]]for Quentin Wilson's Cha-Cha-Cha, the lowest-scoring routine in Strictly history. Craig also scored it 1, with Len and Bruno both giving it 3[[/note]].
* FunnyForeigner: Bruno Tonioli- he wouldn't be able to get away with half of what he says (see GettingCrapPastTheRadar) if he didn't have the 'Franc from FatherOfTheBride' persona, and thank god he does because he's brilliant!
** The comedy training [=VTs=] sometimes play this up with the non-English professionals, as do some of Bruce's jokes.
* FreudianSlip: Arlene when scoring (not the happiest of phrases perhaps) Mark Ramprakash declared outright on live television 'I just want raw sex!'
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: where the judges' comments are concerned, there ''is'' no radar and they get away with saying the most outrageous things to the contestants. Also, the Wembley show in the 2011 series included performances to two songs that were, not to put too fine a point on it, about filthy sex: "Relax" and "Come On Eileen". The former had actually been heavily sanitised ("Relax" without the sexual references!) when it was used on sister show SoYouThinkYouCanDance a few months earlier.
* HalloweenEpisode: The 2010 series onwards introduced "theme nights", starting with this on the weekend closest to Halloween.
* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Invoked by Richard Arnold after a disastrous foxtrot where he forgot half the routine: "We're going to be on the Internet forever!"
* InvincibleHero: The dance-off[[note]](where the two contestants at the bottom of the leaderboard after the public vote is factored in have to dance again for the judges to vote on)[[/note]] can lead to this because it is always obvious who will survive, even if they fall into the bottom two multiple times. Lisa Snowdon in series 6 was saved from the dance-off ''four times'' in all, including against Austin Healy (the favourite to win the series), leading to complaints from viewers that a couple the viewers didn't like were being repeatedly saved; when she finally got to the final and the dance-off was removed, she was of course eliminated straight away.
** Louis Smith; a hunky, likable gymnast who'd won a silver medal at the [[OlympicGames London Olympics]] three months before the show. Everyone had called him as the Series 10 winner from the very start[[note]]or at least after fellow Olympic medallist Victoria Pendleton turned out to be such an awful dancer[[/note]].
* LargeHam: Bruno
* LatinLover: Played for laughs with Vincent Simone who's dark looks and thick Italian accent and positively obscenely overactive eyebrows are undercut by a lisp and rather diminutive stature- his partners tend to either be teenagers or much older women.
* LiveButDelayed
** Averted for the Saturday show, which has led to more than one embarassing incident; Bruno used an expletive meaning "nonsense" live on air (the expression in question ''is'' usable before the {{watershed}} but strongly frowned upon in a show intended as wholesome family entertainment) and during an argument Len called Craig a "silly sod".
** The Sunday results show from 2007 onwards is pre-recorded on the Saturday night. This means that the elimination is leaked by members of the audience, and in the first year the non-liveness became pretty clear when one of the celebrities appeared thirty minutes after the show had gone out doing live rugby commentary. ''From France''.
* LyricalDissonance: The ultimate example would be Matt Baker's romantic Viennese Waltz to [[MurderBallad Where the Wild Roses Grow]] though only the first verse and chorus were used so without knowing the whole song you could be excused for not seeing it as such.
* TheMeanBrit: Something of a subversion - since SCD is a British show, it has a mean Australian instead, in the form of Craig Revel-Horwood.
** Len Goodman occasionally has his moments as an actual Mean Brit. Being the traditionalist of the panel and a stickler for the rules, he will mark down a dance if it goes against the status quo e.g. with a routine that has too many lifts. Case in point: Kara and Artem's American smooth in 2010. The other judges gave it 9's and 10's. Len gave it a 6. Why? Because Kara and Artem weren't in hold long enough.
* MarketBasedTitle: ''Dancing With the Stars'', because the original [[LongRunner long running]] ComeDancing series isn't well known outside the UK.
* MrFanservice: To judge from the comments on the show's message boards, Matthew Cutler and Brian Fortuna both fill this role. There's also always at least one young, good-looking male amongst the celebrity contestants every year. Unsurprisingly, given the show's predominantly female fanbase, these guys tend to do quite well.
* MsFanservice: Also present, generally the "lad's mag favourite" female contestant, plus professional dancers. Especially Ola.
** Although as of 2013, it's now Susanna Reid, Fiona Fullerton and Abbey Clancy, with Ola being [[DeaderThanDisco not as popular as she once was]].
* MrsRobinson: Arlene Phillips who was ''not'' afraid of voicing her appreciation of certain male contestants
* NonGameplayElimination: Several contestants have had to pull out after suffering injury or bereavement. John Sergeant is the only competitor to leave of his own volition (as he feared he might end up winning the series).
* PimpedOutDress: This is fairly common in ballroom dancing.
* RuleOfCool: The 2010 series changed the rules to allow props, leading to a few cases of this; Matt Baker started his Charleston on a unicycle and magician Paul Daniels began a routine by making his partner "appear" from inside a box, but the ultimate example was the opening to Russell Grant's Jive in Wembley Arena (being "fired" out of a cannon).
* RomanceOnTheSet: A number of celebs have ended up in relationships with their professionals. They haven't tended to last.
* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: Kara Tointon's acting career since winning series 8 has been far from poor, but runner-up Matt Baker received a bigger boost in his presenting career (his performance on the show resulted in him getting the job as host of ''The One Show'', a role he had been passed over for before because of doubts as to how popular he was).
* RunningGag: Craig's pronounciation of certain words (like "disaaaaastaaaaar", "Ah! May! Zing!" and "Chaaa chaaaa chaaaa"), Anton Du Beke being Bruce's "love child".
** In season 8, Bruno's "Sccccccccott!"
** Darcey Bussell ending sentences with "Yah".
** Bruce's introduction of the judges, which always ends with him insulting Craig.
** Season 10 started a joke about Len and pickled walnuts.
** "Kevin from Grimsby"
* SensualSlavs: A lot of the female dancers including Kristina Rhianov, Ola Jordan, Lilia Kopylova and Aliona Vilani hail from former Soviet bloc countries.
* ShirtlessScene: Happens frequently. Special mention goes to the Halloween pro dance which featured no less than five of the professional male dancers (or former, in the case of Matthew Cutler, who had left the previous year) dancing topless.
** Artem's "costume" for his paso doble with Fern Britton involved him wearing nothing from the waist up. The comments that this was an attempt to get votes may not have been entirely in jest.
* ShowStopper: A really entertaining performance will warrant a standing ovation from the audience.
* TheSnarkKnight: Craig Revel Horwood
* {{Stripperific}}: Almost all of the dresses worn by the female contestants and dancers during the Latin-American dances. Sometimes the men too.
** TruthInTelevision if the English amateur Latin circuit is anything to go by.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: A few contestants, but the prize has to go to cricketer Mark Ramprakash who basically became the Mr Darcy of the ballroom much to the glee of Arlene.
* TeamDad: Len Goodman, head judge and on the whole one of the most generous judges. He's got a bit more finikity lately probably to compensate for the loss of Arlene (who with Craig made up the 'harsh' side of the judges) but still very generous and warm towards contestants adding the human touch to technical criticisms.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: The John Sergeant saga. Quite a lot of dancers fit the trope, and the younger performers often provide a serious challenge for the technicians, as their skill increases over the course of the series, but the technicians never learn to really sell a dance. The case in point in 2009 is Chris Hollins, who started off poorly skilled but a good performer, and by the end was both skilled AND a good performer.
** John Sergeant himself actually was rather an aversion to this trope - he was not a performer, and he was certainly '''''not''''' a technician! In fact, this was what lead to him repeatedly stating in interviews that he was surprised and dismayed at the fact that the public kept voting to keep him in the competition, as he was neither good at the technical aspects of dancing nor good at performing, and felt he was just a big joke.
* UpToEleven: The Wembley Arena shows tend to go for this wherever possible.
* VaporWear: The support cups are attached to the dresses.
----
<<|BritishSeries|>>
The show debuted in 2004. Now (2014) on its twelfth season, it's a Celebrity TalentShow in which 14 celebrities are paired up with professional dancers, the latter of whom have to teach the former how to dance. They dance each week and one couple is voted off each week via a combination of judges' scores and public voting until the final three compete in the final, which is decided by audience vote alone.[[note]]Although in several years one couple has had to drop out and there have been only two finalists as a result, and in 2012 there were four finalists.[[/note]]
Hosted by BruceForsyth until the 2014 series (Brucie now is doing specials only), the show has now been taken over by previous Sunday show hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, the first both-female presenting duo in a British Saturday evening show. In November 2014 Claudia was replaced with Zoe Ball due to family matters, for an unspecified length of time.
Each dance is marked out of ten by the four judges who consist of:
* Craig Revel Horwood - theatre choreographer and director; the nastiest and most brutally honest of the four judges. Likes anything innovative or unusual.
* Darcey Bussell - former prima ballerina; previously guest-judged the final stages of the 2009 series before taking over permanently in 2012.
* Len Goodman - professional ballroom dancer and coach; the head judge and has a tendency to be nicer, although he is a traditionalist.
* Bruno Tonioli - choreographer for TV and film; generally quite generous, flamboyant and CampGay (Craig is bisexual, but it's less obvious with him).
Arlene Phillips was a judge until 2009, but was replaced with 2007 champion Alesha Dixon, much to the disgust of news hacks the land over. Dixon jumped ship for ''BritainsGotTalent'' after three series, whereupon Darcey Bussell took over permanently.
Some recurring types of contestant appear:
* Late-middle-aged male TV presenter who usually goes out in the first couple of rounds. Unless we're talking about John Sergeant, who survived nine rounds due to the public vote, despite low judge markings and active statements by them that he should go, before sensationally pulling out of the 2008 contest on 19 November.
* "Lads' mag favourite" female who does quite well.
* Medium-fame female singer.
* Well-known, somewhat hunky, sportsman.
* ChristmasCake older actress.
* Slightly larger "novelty act"
* Actor or Actresses from a soap opera (generally ''EastEnders'' or ''CoronationStreet''). May overlap with any other categories.
The show also has an attributed 'curse of Strictly', with a string of widely-publicised breakups between celebrities and their established partners, sometimes in favour of the pro they were paired with for the show.
The winners to date are:
* Series 1 (spring 2004): Natasha Kaplinsky, beating Christopher Parker
* Series 2 (autumn 2004): Jill Halfpenny, beating Denise Lewis and Julian Clary
* Series 3 (2005): Darren Gough, beating Colin Jackson and Zoe Ball
* Series 4 (2006): Mark Ramprakash, beating Matt Dawson
* Series 5 (2007): Alesha Dixon, beating Matt Di Angelo
* Series 6 (2008): Tom Chambers, beating Rachel Stevens and Lisa Snowdon
* Series 7 (2009): Chris Hollins, beating Ricky Whittle
* Series 8 (2010): Kara Tointon, beating Matt Baker and Pamela Stephenson
* Series 9 (2011): Harry Judd, beating Chelsee Healey and Jason Donovan
* Series 10 (2012): Louis Smith, beating Denise van Outen and Kimberley Walsh
* Series 11 (2013): Abbey Clancy, beating Natalie Gumede and Susanna Reid
* Series 12 (2014): Caroline Flack, beating Frankie Bridge and Simon Webbe
!!This show contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: If a routine can include a reference to what the celebrity is known for, it will. Examples include Matt Baker's countryside-themed cha-cha-cha, Jason Donovan's ''PriscillaQueenOfTheDesert'' tango and Victoria Pendleton dancing a paso doble to [[{{Queen}} "Bicycle Race"]].
* AscendedExtra: A lot of the professional dancers are now recognised as celebrities in their own right, and the show has capitalised on this by making a big deal of which celebrity gets which pro and pairing them up live in the studio.
** Iveta Lukosiute first appeared as a reserve pro in Series 10, briefly covering for Aliona Vilani and Ola Jordan in a couple of weeks due to injury and family emergency. She then became a regular in Series 11.
* BrutalHonesty: Craig can and will tell the contestants just how bad their dancing was in both his comments and markings. The other three use the paddles for less than 5 once or twice a series at best.
* ButtMonkey: Anton du Beke is definitely this amongst the professional dancers; he has been on every series to date, and has never made the final or received a 10. His recent pairings with Ann Widdecombe and Nancy Dell'Olio have only cemented his status as this.
* CampGay: Bruno and Robin. Not to mention Russell Grant in 2011 and Julian Clary in 2004. Craig too seems to have gotten more and more camp over the years, especially in the side-show "It Takes Two"
* TheCastShowoff: Matt Baker, one of the contestants in 2010, is a trained gymnast and competed for Britain when he was younger. Over the course of the series he did 2 cartwheels, 3 consecutive backflips and a back somersault off the judges' desk (although this wasn't to compensate for being a poor dancer - he was one of the frontrunners of the competition and ultimately came second). Oh, and he can also ride a unicycle.
* CatchPhrase: As well as Brucie's personal phrases, usually "Nice to see you" but he's used others, Len Goodman has a particular way of pronouncing "Seven" (''Seerrrvvvvveeeeen!'')
** Goodman and Forsyth did a gag where the latter asked a series of questions to which the former would answer "Seven", concluding with "What river runs through Bristol?" "Sevvvveerrrrrrnnnnn!". Next week, they had to do it again, properly, as people pointed out the Severn doesn't run through Bristol. It's the Avon...
* CheekyCockney: Len Goodman
* ChristmasEpisode: As the BBC's only really successful light-entertainment show in recent years, this rapidly became a staple of the Christmas schedules. Initially this took the format of inviting back past contestants alongside the top three from the most recent series in a standalone competition; in 2010 it was changed to feature new celebrities who didn't have time to do the full series.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Most of the professional dancers have their own specialist field of dancing and can struggle when they have to choreograph, teach and perform in a style they're not used to. Anton Du Beke in particular is a superb ballroom dancer, but his Latin routines are notoriously poor.
* DemotedToExtra: The fate of some of the professional dancers who weren't asked to partner celebrities in the 2010 series; those who agreed were put into a "professional dance troupe". The following year the dance troupe was removed, although Ian Waite is apparently too popular to lose altogether as he still regularly appears on ''It Takes Two'' and occasionally partners celebrities in special charity or Christmas editions.
* DramaticPause: taken to excess at times. TheReveal of who's out in each episode takes ''ages''.
* EliminationCatchphrase: "It's the moment of truth."
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer : Visit the SCD forums and count how often the name "Ola Jordan" appears in close proximity to the phrase "girl crush".
* {{Fanservice}}: The costumes of a lot of the female dancers (particularly the professional ones) qualify, especially Lilia Kopylova and Ola Jordan, and sometimes the men as well.
** Ola once wore a SexyBacklessOutfit black animal print number with AbsoluteCleavage. It looked like it had been sprayed on.
** Ola is married to James Jordan, another of the professionals (although he has now left the show). Does that make her [[MsFanservice Mrs Fanservice]]?
** Also a TruthInTelevision, as outfits on the professional and even amateur ballroom and latin circuits can be surprisingly racey.
** Contestants tend to up this as they go along; mainly as they've lost a lot of weight during all the training.
* {{Filler}}: Brucie can do filler like nobody's business.
** The VT's played before each routine can count as this.
* FourPointScale: For Len and Alesha at least (even [[BrainBleach Ann Widdecombe's salsa]] warranted a 4 from them). Craig and to a lesser extent Bruno avert this.
** Arlene also averted it to a degree; so far she's the only judge other than Craig to have ever given a 1[[note]]for Quentin Wilson's Cha-Cha-Cha, the lowest-scoring routine in Strictly history. Craig also scored it 1, with Len and Bruno both giving it 3[[/note]].
* FunnyForeigner: Bruno Tonioli- he wouldn't be able to get away with half of what he says (see GettingCrapPastTheRadar) if he didn't have the 'Franc from FatherOfTheBride' persona, and thank god he does because he's brilliant!
** The comedy training [=VTs=] sometimes play this up with the non-English professionals, as do some of Bruce's jokes.
* FreudianSlip: Arlene when scoring (not the happiest of phrases perhaps) Mark Ramprakash declared outright on live television 'I just want raw sex!'
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: where the judges' comments are concerned, there ''is'' no radar and they get away with saying the most outrageous things to the contestants. Also, the Wembley show in the 2011 series included performances to two songs that were, not to put too fine a point on it, about filthy sex: "Relax" and "Come On Eileen". The former had actually been heavily sanitised ("Relax" without the sexual references!) when it was used on sister show SoYouThinkYouCanDance a few months earlier.
* HalloweenEpisode: The 2010 series onwards introduced "theme nights", starting with this on the weekend closest to Halloween.
* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Invoked by Richard Arnold after a disastrous foxtrot where he forgot half the routine: "We're going to be on the Internet forever!"
* InvincibleHero: The dance-off[[note]](where the two contestants at the bottom of the leaderboard after the public vote is factored in have to dance again for the judges to vote on)[[/note]] can lead to this because it is always obvious who will survive, even if they fall into the bottom two multiple times. Lisa Snowdon in series 6 was saved from the dance-off ''four times'' in all, including against Austin Healy (the favourite to win the series), leading to complaints from viewers that a couple the viewers didn't like were being repeatedly saved; when she finally got to the final and the dance-off was removed, she was of course eliminated straight away.
** Louis Smith; a hunky, likable gymnast who'd won a silver medal at the [[OlympicGames London Olympics]] three months before the show. Everyone had called him as the Series 10 winner from the very start[[note]]or at least after fellow Olympic medallist Victoria Pendleton turned out to be such an awful dancer[[/note]].
* LargeHam: Bruno
* LatinLover: Played for laughs with Vincent Simone who's dark looks and thick Italian accent and positively obscenely overactive eyebrows are undercut by a lisp and rather diminutive stature- his partners tend to either be teenagers or much older women.
* LiveButDelayed
** Averted for the Saturday show, which has led to more than one embarassing incident; Bruno used an expletive meaning "nonsense" live on air (the expression in question ''is'' usable before the {{watershed}} but strongly frowned upon in a show intended as wholesome family entertainment) and during an argument Len called Craig a "silly sod".
** The Sunday results show from 2007 onwards is pre-recorded on the Saturday night. This means that the elimination is leaked by members of the audience, and in the first year the non-liveness became pretty clear when one of the celebrities appeared thirty minutes after the show had gone out doing live rugby commentary. ''From France''.
* LyricalDissonance: The ultimate example would be Matt Baker's romantic Viennese Waltz to [[MurderBallad Where the Wild Roses Grow]] though only the first verse and chorus were used so without knowing the whole song you could be excused for not seeing it as such.
* TheMeanBrit: Something of a subversion - since SCD is a British show, it has a mean Australian instead, in the form of Craig Revel-Horwood.
** Len Goodman occasionally has his moments as an actual Mean Brit. Being the traditionalist of the panel and a stickler for the rules, he will mark down a dance if it goes against the status quo e.g. with a routine that has too many lifts. Case in point: Kara and Artem's American smooth in 2010. The other judges gave it 9's and 10's. Len gave it a 6. Why? Because Kara and Artem weren't in hold long enough.
* MarketBasedTitle: ''Dancing With the Stars'', because the original [[LongRunner long running]] ComeDancing series isn't well known outside the UK.
* MrFanservice: To judge from the comments on the show's message boards, Matthew Cutler and Brian Fortuna both fill this role. There's also always at least one young, good-looking male amongst the celebrity contestants every year. Unsurprisingly, given the show's predominantly female fanbase, these guys tend to do quite well.
* MsFanservice: Also present, generally the "lad's mag favourite" female contestant, plus professional dancers. Especially Ola.
** Although as of 2013, it's now Susanna Reid, Fiona Fullerton and Abbey Clancy, with Ola being [[DeaderThanDisco not as popular as she once was]].
* MrsRobinson: Arlene Phillips who was ''not'' afraid of voicing her appreciation of certain male contestants
* NonGameplayElimination: Several contestants have had to pull out after suffering injury or bereavement. John Sergeant is the only competitor to leave of his own volition (as he feared he might end up winning the series).
* PimpedOutDress: This is fairly common in ballroom dancing.
* RuleOfCool: The 2010 series changed the rules to allow props, leading to a few cases of this; Matt Baker started his Charleston on a unicycle and magician Paul Daniels began a routine by making his partner "appear" from inside a box, but the ultimate example was the opening to Russell Grant's Jive in Wembley Arena (being "fired" out of a cannon).
* RomanceOnTheSet: A number of celebs have ended up in relationships with their professionals. They haven't tended to last.
* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: Kara Tointon's acting career since winning series 8 has been far from poor, but runner-up Matt Baker received a bigger boost in his presenting career (his performance on the show resulted in him getting the job as host of ''The One Show'', a role he had been passed over for before because of doubts as to how popular he was).
* RunningGag: Craig's pronounciation of certain words (like "disaaaaastaaaaar", "Ah! May! Zing!" and "Chaaa chaaaa chaaaa"), Anton Du Beke being Bruce's "love child".
** In season 8, Bruno's "Sccccccccott!"
** Darcey Bussell ending sentences with "Yah".
** Bruce's introduction of the judges, which always ends with him insulting Craig.
** Season 10 started a joke about Len and pickled walnuts.
** "Kevin from Grimsby"
* SensualSlavs: A lot of the female dancers including Kristina Rhianov, Ola Jordan, Lilia Kopylova and Aliona Vilani hail from former Soviet bloc countries.
* ShirtlessScene: Happens frequently. Special mention goes to the Halloween pro dance which featured no less than five of the professional male dancers (or former, in the case of Matthew Cutler, who had left the previous year) dancing topless.
** Artem's "costume" for his paso doble with Fern Britton involved him wearing nothing from the waist up. The comments that this was an attempt to get votes may not have been entirely in jest.
* ShowStopper: A really entertaining performance will warrant a standing ovation from the audience.
* TheSnarkKnight: Craig Revel Horwood
* {{Stripperific}}: Almost all of the dresses worn by the female contestants and dancers during the Latin-American dances. Sometimes the men too.
** TruthInTelevision if the English amateur Latin circuit is anything to go by.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: A few contestants, but the prize has to go to cricketer Mark Ramprakash who basically became the Mr Darcy of the ballroom much to the glee of Arlene.
* TeamDad: Len Goodman, head judge and on the whole one of the most generous judges. He's got a bit more finikity lately probably to compensate for the loss of Arlene (who with Craig made up the 'harsh' side of the judges) but still very generous and warm towards contestants adding the human touch to technical criticisms.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: The John Sergeant saga. Quite a lot of dancers fit the trope, and the younger performers often provide a serious challenge for the technicians, as their skill increases over the course of the series, but the technicians never learn to really sell a dance. The case in point in 2009 is Chris Hollins, who started off poorly skilled but a good performer, and by the end was both skilled AND a good performer.
** John Sergeant himself actually was rather an aversion to this trope - he was not a performer, and he was certainly '''''not''''' a technician! In fact, this was what lead to him repeatedly stating in interviews that he was surprised and dismayed at the fact that the public kept voting to keep him in the competition, as he was neither good at the technical aspects of dancing nor good at performing, and felt he was just a big joke.
* UpToEleven: The Wembley Arena shows tend to go for this wherever possible.
* VaporWear: The support cups are attached to the dresses.
----
<<|BritishSeries|>>
