Just wondering - random draw is closed.
Just wanted to know if anyone has received conformation that they have tickets.
I would love to get them but no confo yet

I believe you will only find out a couple of weeks before the show you applied for.

I think they will just email e-tickets about a couple of weeks beforehand as claire says. Just keep checking your email accounts!

So perumably there must be people out there who have tix for this week.

Please come forward and let us know if you're successful. We'll all be jealous, of course, but we'd also love to hear your experiences.

They'll probably pack the first two nights with celebs - even more so than usual. I was talking to someone at the BBC who said last year there were 250,000 applications for each show and only about 100 public tickets allocated. It's probably even worse this year.

And this year we don't have to beg you for spoilers

Kirstie Allsopp (from Location Location Location) wrote on her Twitter today:- "OMG! Was I the last to know this? Strictly r ditching the celeb audience, I love spotting who's in the front row, it's part of the fun, sob!"

Maybe the BBC have listened to fans on this as well?

Is this really right.........

You mean to say that there may be more tickets available to us.......... that could be the best news Ive had all week....

Oh My Holy F'ing LORD!

Maybe it wasn't just us getting annoyed about that then. ... but poor Kirstie. I love her and would have no objections to her getting a ticket!

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dunno where she heard it from, she doesn't often reply direct to peeps, but she seems quite certain that it's true!

250,000 for each show? Surely not. I thought that was for the whole seires combined! If it was for each show that would mean for all 14 shows thats 3.5 million applications and I honestly can't see that many people applying.

Sorry for the double post.

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According to the bbc boards ticket allocations for the first two weeks will be sent out today..............anyone on here been lucky ?

I think it's strange the BBC are stopping celebs wandering in like there's a revolving door outside, but hopefully this'll mean more of us on here will get a chance .

Let's hope 250,000 is overall, as that would have meant about 18,000 per show.

Out of interest, how are the tickets for their Christmas Specials distributed?

I can quite easily see 3.5 million people apply for tickets! why not? How many millions watch each week? its totally possible IMO

I'm sure there will still be celebs there - friends of the dancers - but I think they'll stop random people from Eastenders etc etc just wondering in

If it was 3.5 million everyone would be talking about it, not just Strictly fans. I ask people to apply for me and they're like "What's this? What do I do? Oh, I didn't know you had to apply for tickets ... I thought you just went." etc. Not a massive amount of people are as on the ball as on this forum. This forum doesn't give a fair representation of who applies.

Yes, about 10 million watch, the majority of which are ... how can I say this ... older people who wouldn't even consider aplying for tickets. I think 250,000 for the whole series is a perfectly reasonable estimation.

Up until last year the tickets for the Christmas Special became available about a couple of weeks beforehand although it wasn't advertised anywhere - you just had to keep phoning the ticket unit. I was lucky enough to go for a couple of years, but last year they kept them for celebs and those people who had tickets for the main show but hadn't managed to get in and were offered tickets for the Christmas Special instead.

Re number of applications, I myself applied about 35 times last year via various friends and most of my committed friends did the same thing, so I suspect 250,000 per show might have been about right. Incidentally it was Stuart, the warm up guy, who told me this when he was warming up the audience for Ready Steady Cook (I went there last week.)

And when you think the web site crashed several times when the ticket lottery opened, and it's impossible to get through on the phone for days, there's obviously an awful lot of people applying for tickets.

Xmas special always seems to be exclusively production guests and celebrities and dancers who aren't taking part in the show.

Yes, I think celeb friends of the contestants will still be allowed. If I'm lucky enough to go I'm totally on the look out for Bill & Sian supporting Chris.

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I tend to agree! I think the website crashing is a very good indication of how many people apply! How many of us on this forum actually get tickets? Not alot of us!! Personally I think millions of people apply but just my opinion!

i can't remember which date i applied for so don't know if or when i will get email

doubt it though i am never lucky

Has there ever been a black market for tickets?

I have not applied from Ireland, but if I was given a ticket I would give it away to a nicely-behaved person.

Surely the fact they kept the ballot open for longer this year might mean something too.