It’s been confirmed that Alex Kingston, who played the Doctor’s wife, River Song, will be taking part in this year’s Strictly Come Dancing — but will she be dancing a Doctor Who-inspired routine? Sadly, even Alex doesn’t know!

She explains:

“We don’t have a say. We don’t know. And the dancers, the choreographers, they’re the ones that sort of go and make the decisions and I think we just are then told, ‘Well, this is what you’re going to be doing now.'”

If the producers do give her a dance inspired by our favourite sci-fi show, it wouldn’t be the first time that Doctor Who has played a part in Strictly — in 2018, Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton were dressed as the Thirteenth Doctor and a Cyberman for a Hallowe’en Week Tango, while in 2022, Tyler West and Dianne Buswell also performed a Tango to the Doctor Who theme tune, with the latter dressed as a Weeping Angel.

Kingston also adds:

“There’s a different sort of pressure I feel because it’s not just the dance; it’s also the character, and I don’t want to be dressed as a Teletubby!”

Strictly launches this weekend (20th September 2025), in which we see dancers partnered with professionals, but the first live show is on BBC1 the following Saturday.

This is pretty exciting for this DWC editor — I love Alex, and I love Strictly, so expect quite a bit of coverage in the coming weeks. I reckon Alex will be fantastic, and how wonderful to see such a high-profile Who star on another of the BBC’s biggest series. Sure, there’s a lot of controversy around the dancing reality series this year, but it remains a massive franchise; and heck, it’s people dancing and having great fun, so what’s wrong with that? (That was rhetorical…)