Strictly Come Dancing to air earlier this week – so fans need to switch on to catch the start

STRICTLY Come Dancing is on earlier than it has been for weeks tonight – so fans need to switch on so as not to miss the start.

The show will air at 6.40pm – five minutes earlier than it did for last week’s show, and a full half-hour earlier than the Halloween show.



Rose Ayling Ellis and Giovanni Pernice have their Couple’s Choice tonight

Strictly Come Dancing’s stars – including Dan Walker – spring into action at 6.40pm

It will continue for an hour and 20 minutes before wrapping up at 8pm, ahead of Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel.

Strictly’s start time often changes depending on what else is happening, with last week’s Bonfire Night special of Wurzel Gummidge airing in the teatime slot ahead of it.

The stars from last week – minus Adam Peaty who got eliminated on Sunday – will be back with AJ Odudu hoping to repeat her leaderboard-topping performance.

She became the celeb to beat after bagging a score of 39 out of a possible 40 for her Charleston with Kai Widdrington.

This week will see them perform a paso doble to Game Of Survival by Ruelle.

Meanwhile Tilly Ramsay and Nikita Kuzmin – dance-off victims last week – will do a quickstep to Damita Jo’s I Won’t Dance.

McFly’s Tom Fletcher and his partner Amy Dowden will dance the Viennese Waltz to Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.

EastEnders star Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice get their Couple’s Choice, performing to Symphony by Clean Bandit.

BBC Breakfast’s Dan Walker and Nadiya Bychkova will dance an American smooth King Of The Road by The Proclaimers.

Dragons’ Den judge Sara Davies and Aljaz Skorjanec will do an Argentine tango to No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) by Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand.

CBBC star Rhys Stephenson and Nancy Xu will perform a Charleston to, aptly enough, The Charleston by Bob Wilson and his Varsity Rhythm Boys.

Finally, Bake Off champ John Whaite and partner Johannes Radebe will perform a samba to Acuyuye by DLG.