I'd be very surprised if Janette wasn't back.

No she danced with Peter Andre !

Ah yes I lovedher

Every time I get a notification for this thread I dash in hoping for the line up reveal news Hopefully not long.

Pro dancers are not allowed to divulge this information as part of their contract.

Kevin, Karen, Joanne, Janette, Aljaz, Natalie, Oti, Gleb, Giovanni, Pasha are 100% in, that is unless something unexpected happens. Anton and Brendan should be in as well, Brendan was one of the leading voices in changing some of the practices concerning the pros.

Pros were contacted some time ago to be part of this year's series and 2017, but with a confirmation clause for next year. this came with a salary raise and other benefits to dancers which in my opinion were overdue.

Thank you for that - do we know who the new pro dancers are ?

Glebs back YAY. What do you mean by confimation clause?

Thanks for that. Thats pretty much as I though it would be, is Oti not coming back though?

Id like all the pros to stay. As long as Aljaz and Gio are back its all good

yes she is.

It means that they have been "contracted" for 2 years but that there will have to be a mutual confirmation for the second year coming next January.

I'm so happy

Yay!!

Do we know who the newbies will be?

Totally agree. I know being on the show is a tremendous boost for the pro dancers' careers but the disparity in salaries compared to the judges is very unfair.

the judges are only sat there for 2 hours a week critiquing where as the pros do 6+ hours a day all week with their celeb therefore I think they should be on more than the judges

Totally. The judges are scripted and increasingly spouting production policy towards the celebs. They do not deserve the money they receive. The pro dancers are dedicated and work hard. They deserve considerably more from the public purse.

Hopefully Anton is eliminated the first week.

Oti is in the list from backstageone that you quoted

somehow I think he will get a blackpool MOR, cant see him being eliminated in his 1st round again like he was with Gillian

Thank you for this!! Great news!

And ITA about the long overdue raise on the pros salaries.

Well that's what I want anyway.
Looking at his record, after each good one he's had, he got a dud the next year.
Lesley Garrett then Esther Rantzen
Patsy Palmer then Jan Ravens and Kate Garraway
Laila Rouass then Widdy and Nancy.

To be fair I shouldn't think the Producers always know who is going to be a dud on the face of it !
Who would have thought Kate Garraway would be so bad ?
... and Nancy, one would have thought she would have been excellent.

Admittedly Widdy would have been no surprise !

yeah I thought Nancy& Jerry would have been good but both supprised me, he does get most of his partners past the MOR stage (probably because of his fanbase rather than his contestants dancing) so yeah I think he may get another Judy or Fiona (that said Fiona wasn't that bad)

just thought I'm still supprised that Widdy made the QF in her series

Joanne has got an announcement next week