Songs and dances revealed for Strictly's Movie Week

What movie are you excited to see be brought to life through dance? <i>(Image: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Wire)</i>
What movie are you excited to see be brought to life through dance? (Image: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Wire)
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Strictly Come Dancing has announced all of its movie-themed routines for its upcoming "movie week," including dances inspired by Zootropolis and Ratatouille.

The celebrity contestants will return to the dancefloor on Saturday for the second live show of the season.

They will perform routines inspired by a range of classic films, award-winning blockbusters, musicals, and cartoons.

Full list of Strictly songs and dances for Movie Week

The BBC dancing competition will open with a pre-recorded routine based on Disney's Zootropolis, with professionals dressed as animals, dancing to Shakira's tracks from the first film and its 2025 sequel.

Judges Motsi Mabuse and Craig Revel Horwood will feature in a separate routine inspired by 2006's The Devil Wears Prada.

Mabuse will play the role of Miranda Priestly, a ruthless fashion magazine boss originally portrayed by Meryl Streep.

In the show, former Love Island winner Dani Dyer will return to the dancefloor with Nikita Kuzmin for a foxtrot to the title track from Disney's Beauty And The Beast.

Australian singer Delta Goodrem and Kai Widdrington will perform an American smooth to Lady Gaga's I'll Never Love Again from the 2018 film A Star Is Born.

Actress Jaime Winstone will cha-cha with Carlos Gu to the title track from the 1990 romantic comedy Pretty Woman.

Social media star John Nellis and Katya Jones will perform their couple’s choice to An Irish Party In Third Class from the 1998 romantic drama Titanic.

Actress Bethany Antonia and her partner Nancy Xu will be performing a paso doble to No Good Deed from Wicked: For Good.

Dame Sarah Storey and Julian Caillon will perform a Charleston to Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins.

Olympian Tabby Stoecker will do an American smooth with her partner Mark Karmalita to Rewrite the Stars from The Greatest Showman.

Former footballer Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis Warr will salsa to You Should Be Dancing from the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever.

Other performances include a cha-cha to I'm Always Here from Baywatch by Chris Appleton and Amy Dowden, and a waltz by Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly trainer Graeme Hall and Lauren Oakley to The Godfather Waltz.

Earlier this week, it was also revealed that former Love Island winner Cach Mercer and Maddie Ingoldsby will samba to We Go Together from Grease.

Emmerdale's Lawrence Robb will Viennese waltz with Jowita Przystal to Le Festin from Pixar's Ratatouille.

EastEnders actress Lacey Turner will perform a quickstep with partner Vito Coppola to Taylor Swift’s track I Knew It, I Knew You from the latest Toy Story film.

TV presenter Will Best and Dianne Buswell will dance a foxtrot to Old Time Rock And Roll from the 1983 film Risky Business.

Gavin and Stacey actress Melanie Walters and partner Aljaz Skorjanec will waltz to Edelweiss from The Sound of Music.

Strictly Come Dancing continues on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Saturday at 6.15pm.

Which dance are you most excited to watch? Let us know in the comments. 

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