Glitterball

A glitterball overhead sends shards of light across the stadium as the electronic screen flashes a pair of metallic robot legs, cheekily spread wide open.

Hamza Yassin - who beat Helen to the Glitterball Trophy in December - said : "Miss you, and love you lots.

In a nice twist, they are also assisted by the Man in the Mirror (the fabulous human glitterball Darren Brownlie), who has turned against his boss, Queen Cranachan.

Joanne Clifton and Ore Oduba with the glitterball trophy after they won the final of the BBC1 show, Strictly Come Dancing.

Strictly Come Dancing 2023 is officially over, with the winner of the Glitterball Trophy.

Strictly Come Dancing star Layton is among the favourites for the Glitterball Trophy, with pro dancer James Jordan saying he has "no place on show".

The Casualty actor’s exit leaves just Ellie Leach, Bobby Brazier, Layton Williams and Annabel Croft in the contest to win the glitterball trophy.

The hotly anticipated semi-finals saw the final four celebrities battle it out for a chance to compete for the coveted glitterball trophy next week, with Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin topping the leaderboard with an impressive 116 points.

The last person to top the leaderboard in the 11th week and go on to lift the Glitterball trophy was singer Jay McGuiness all the way back in 2015.

After 13 weeks, just four couples remain in the BBC One dance contest, and only one will be lifting the coveted Glitterball trophy on Saturday (December 14) during the last week of the 2024 run of the competition.

And while Sarah has impressed the judges week after week, she could miss out on lifting the Glitterball Trophy to Chris McCausland.

But it was the public vote that decided the winner with Ellie and Vito taking the title and lifting the Glitterball trophy.

Despite her comedic background, Sarah is a serious contender for Strictly's glitterball trophy as she and Vito finished in joint second place on the leaderboard last week.

Ellie, 23, kicked off the year as the reigning champion after lifting the coveted Glitterball trophy back in December with dance partner Vito Coppola.

Ellie has previously said she will never get over lifting the Glitterball.

He has some dancing experience so could be a contender for the glitterball trophy.

It also has a glitterball-style vase with gold pink roses.

It’s not that it was Miss Scarlett on the theatre stage with the glitterball trophy, but that she hasn’t actually ever partaken in the board game the show draws its inspiration from.

I’ve just got a good feeling it’s going to be my year and hopefully I’m going to get that Glitterball and I’m going to bring it back to Wales, because a Welsh professional dancer’s never won the show.

Last year the 30-year-old competed on the Strictly Christmas Special, lifting the glitterball trophy with Nancy Xu after their quickstep earned them a perfect score.