Strictly Come Dancing movie week: Film-inspired routines for this weekend’s show revealed

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Strictly Come Dancing has unveiled the line-up of performances scheduled for its upcoming movie week, featuring animated animal-themed routines drawing inspiration from films including Zootropolis and Ratatouille.

Taking to the ballroom floor this Saturday for the second live broadcast of the series, the celebrity contestants will perform dances themed around cinema classics, acclaimed blockbusters, musicals and animated features.

The BBC show is set to launch with a pre-filmed group dance centred on Disney animation Zootropolis.

Professional dancers will appear costumed as creatures including a gazelle and a rabbit, performing to Shakira tracks Try Everything and Zoo, taken from the original feature and its 2025 sequel.

Judges Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse are also set to step onto the floor alongside the professional troupe in an additional performance based on 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, set to Lady Gaga tracks Runway and Shape Of A Woman.

The celebrity contestants will perform dances themed around cinema classics, acclaimed blockbusters, musicals and animated features (PA)

Preview footage of the sequence shows Mabuse taking on the role of Miranda Priestly, the formidable fashion magazine boss originally portrayed by Meryl Streep.

Elsewhere in the episode, former Love Island winner Dani Dyer will return to the dancefloor alongside partner Nikita Kuzmin, dancing a foxtrot to the title song from Disney’s Beauty And The Beast.

The television personality made her debut on the series last weekend, having been forced to withdraw from the previous year’s competition due to an injury.

Australian singer Delta Goodrem and Kai Widdrington will perform an American smooth to Lady Gaga’s I’ll Never Love Again from 2018 film A Star Is Born, while actress Jaime Winstone will cha cha with Carlos Gu to the title track from 1990 romantic comedy Pretty Woman.

Social media star John Nellis and Katya Jones, who topped the leaderboard last week with a foxtrot to Alex Warren’s Ordinary, will perform their couple’s choice to An Irish Party In Third Class from 1998 romantic drama Titanic.

The BBC dancing competition will open with a pre-recorded routine based around Disney animation Zootropolis (PA)

Actress Bethany Antonia and her partner Nancy Xu will be doing a paso doble to No Good Deed from Wicked: For Good, while 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, while former footballer Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis Warr will salsa to You Should Be Dancing from 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 from the 1972 crime film starring Al Pacino and Marlon Brando.

Earlier this week, it was also revealed that former Love Island winner Cach Mercer and Maddie Ingoldsby will samba to We Go Together from hit musical Grease, while Emmerdale’s Lawren Robb will Viennese waltz with Jowita Przystal to Le Festin from Pixar film Ratatouille.

It comes after a previous announcement said 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.

Elsewhere, TV presenter Will Best and Dianne Buswell will dance a foxtrot to Old Time Rock And Roll from 1983 film Risky Business, while Gavin And Stacey actress Melanie Walters and partner Aljaz Skorjanec waltz to Edelweiss from The Sound Of Music.

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