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Inside BBC’s ‘clean cut and wholesome’ Strictly 2025 lineup wish list – from TV lovebirds to Georgia Toffolo and Dani Dyer

We're only months away from the 2025 Strictly series, and already, bosses are reportedly concerned about who should be on this year's lineup.

Pro dancers Giovanni Pernice and Graziano Di Prima were both axed for their behaviours behind the scenes, while last year’s contestants, Wynne Evans and Jamie Borthwick, are the latest stars to be involved in a controversy. Wynne was axed from the Strictly tour (Credit: BBC) With the upcoming series set to kick off in September, a TV insider told the MailOnline there is a “terrible fear among those high up that these awful things are going to keep happening and the show will be brought into disrepute again and again”. While keen to book “clean-cut and wholesome” talent for the show, Blue Peter presenters Joel Mawhinney and Shini Muthukrishnan are reportedly in talks.

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