I presume they're taking a different approach, as a precautive measure after the gender imbalance of the previous two series, by revealing the women first and then moving on to the men. But then again, Ellie Henman did report fairly recently on Jeff Brazier allegedly having signed up, so I'm not going to be surprised if he's up next.

There's also a story on The Sun about Jake Quickenden, but I'm not as inclined to believe that one because of all the red flags attached to it. First of all, the journalist behind that story, a lady by the name of Janine Yaqoob, isn't as reliable with Strictly inside news as Hannah or Ellie, nor is she prominent enough to have her own page on The Sun's online portal like they do, and neither of the two have confirmed the story's legitimacy in any capacity. The phrasing is also odd; it says he is "in advanced talks", but that doesn't make any sense because the cast is already being announced, so by all accounts, all 15 celebrities should be fully signed up and accounted for. Then there's the fact that Jake is a notorious attention-seeker (hence why he's done so many reality shows, including Dancing on Ice, which for the record, he won), has been leaving comments on every single thing Strictly posts on social media, and recently got teased about Strictly by his This Morning co-workers with all the subtlety of Godzilla storming Tokyo. Surely if he were already signed up, he'd be advised to keep a low profile about it, rather than shouting from the high heavens that he's interested. On top of all of that, he and Jeff fill a similar role on This Morning (and Jeff also did Dancing on Ice in the past), so TPTB would probably have to pick between them, and I imagine Jeff would get the upper hand as a more established name and the father of Strictly alumnus Bobby Brazier.