Strictly announces songs and dance routines for week two

Strictly Come Dancing has revealed which songs each celebrity contestant and their professional partners will be performing to in Saturday night's (October 2) show, as well as what kind of routine they'll be tackling.

Taking to Twitter earlier today (Tuesday, September 28), the BBC series shared a video that went through all of the couples and their respective tracks.

First up, was Sense and Sensibility actor Greg Wise and Karen Hauer, who'll be dancing a style of their own choice to Ultra Nate, Amber and Jocelyn Enriquez's 'If You Could Read My Mind'.

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Next, Tilly Ramsay and Nikita Kuzmin will be doing the Charleston to 'Yes Sir! That's My Baby' by Firehouse Five Plus Two, while sports pundit Ugo Monye and Oti Mabuse will be dancing the quickstep to The Jive Aces' 'Bring Me Sunshine'.

CBBC's Rhys Stephenson and Nancy Xu will be performing a foxtrot set to Amy Winehouse's 'Tears Dry On Their Own', and Peep Show's Robert Webb and Dianne Buswell will be doing the tango to 'La Cumparsita' by Machiko Ozawa.

EastEnders' Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice will be tackling the salsa, set to 'Cuba' by The Gibson Brothers, while her fellow soap star Nina Wadia and her partner Neil Jones are set to dance the tango to the Eurythmics' 'Would I Lie To You?'

Hollyoaks' Katie McGlynn and Gorka Márquez are gearing up to give Olivia Rodrigo's 'Good 4 U' a jive spin, and Loose Women's Judi Love and Graziano Di Prima will be doing the samba to Sean Paul's 'Get Busy'. Great British Bake Off's John Whaite and Johannes Radebe will be dancing the Cha Cha to the Years & Years track 'Starstruck'.

Dragon's Den entrepreneur Sara Davies and Aljaž Škorjanec are set to take on a foxtrot set to Cass Elliot's 'Dream A Little Dream Of Me', while Olympic champion Adam Peaty and Katja Jones will be doing a quickstep routine to Jet's 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl.'

Finally, newsreader Dan Walker and his partner Nadiya Bychkova will be dancing the paso doble to Calvin Harris and Rag'n'Bone Man's track 'Giant'.

McFly's Tom Fletcher and Amy Dowden will not be taking part this week, due to testing positive for COVID-19 on Sunday.

"Unfortunately @tomfletcher and I have tested positive for Covid-19. I’m not suffering any symptoms but am now isolating at home," Dowden wrote on Instagram at the weekend.

"I have no doubt that over the next 10 days my mind will be going crazy with choreography ideas ready to get back on the Strictly dancefloor for the live show in week 3! Thank you for all of the support and good luck to all of the couples this week. I will be cheering you all on!"

Commenting on her post, Tom promised a grand return: "Rest up partner. We've got to pull something special out of the bag for week 3." We for one can't wait to see what they have in store for us.

Strictly Come Dancing 2021 continues next Saturday (October 2) on BBC One.