The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is returning January 2025 – here’s how to bag tickets
Strictly Come Dancing fans are waiting in anticipation for the Glitterball champion to be crowned tonight, Saturday, December 12. But you don’t have to wait another year to get your Strictly fix as the show’s Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour can fill that ballroom shaped void from as soon as January 17, finishing on February 9, 2025.
Tickets for the glitter-filled live show, which start at £41.45, are now on sale, and will see the judges – Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke, Shirley Ballas and Craig Revel Horwood – return as well as former professional dancer Janette Manrara who will host, the same as previous years.
Also back with a bang for the live shows will be a selection of this year’s celebrities, with Jamie Borthwick, Wynne Evans, Tasha Ghouri, JB Gill, Montell Douglas, Sarah Hadland and Shayne Ward shimmying their way back onto the dancefloor.
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While it has not yet been revealed which pro dancers will be returning to the stage alongside the celebrities, if the last few years are anything to go by, it’ll certainly be a treat.
With two shows occurring on most days, Strictly fans have 34 dates to choose from. The 2025 tour opens at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena on Friday, January 17 with five shows over the next three days before the celebs – complete with glitz, glamour and, of course sequins – will make their way to some of the UK’s biggest entertainment venues. Locations include Sheffield, Newcastle, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham and London.
With tickets starting at £41.45, it seems all venues still have tickets available – although we expect they’ll sell out relatively fast. Get them from Ticketmaster here.
Speaking about their participation in the Strictly Live Tour, JB Gill – who made it to the final of the 2024 series – said: “I’ve loved dancing on Strictly, so I’m thrilled to be going on the live tour. It’ll be fun being back at some of the venues I’ve played with JLS and I can’t wait for all the fans of the show to come out and see us dance for them live! It’s going to be amazing!”
Fellow finalist Tasha Ghouri added: “I can’t believe I’m going to be performing in arenas – it’s a real pinch me moment and an amazing way to continue this journey, I’ve loved it so much. I’m so happy that all the shows on the tour are going to be BSL signed. It’s really important to me that everyone feels represented and included and I hope everyone, including the amazing people who have supported me from the deaf community, come along and watch. It’s going to be incredible!”
Just like in the Strictly Ballroom on Saturday night’s this Live Tour will come complete with performances and the judges pinpointing every wrong – or right – foot. In addition, you can expect jaw-dropping group dances and a showstopping finale.
Previously, over on our sister site Birmingham Live, Jacob Davies took his mum – a Strictly fan – to see the show and said of the evening: “The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is just so relentlessly entertaining, it’s impossible not to have fun watching it. The special effects, pyrotechnics and performances are all spectacular, the judges interactions are hilarious and for two hours you feel fully immersed in the BBC show to such an extent that by the time you leave, you will be wondering why the world isn’t as glittery, glamorous and positive as television suggests it should be.”
He added: “If you need a splash of feel good and a taste of showbiz to kickstart your [year], the Strictly tour is well worth your time.”
Another writer, Jessica Battison, felt that a “small number of the celebrities’ routines felt like they weren’t quite big enough to fill such a huge space” – although with group numbers and extra pro-dancers in the mix, it “helped the majority to really wow us”.
For fans of pro Strictly dancer Nikita Kuzmin specifically, dates for his first solo show are available from March 8, 2025. See availability here.
If you’ve got the live dancing bug after the Strictly tour, or fancy something a little different, Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance tickets are live here on Ticketmaster with dates in Sheffield, Brighton and Dublin.
Get tickets to the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour here.
