Overview
- The special airs on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 5:30pm on Christmas Day.
- Tess Daly performs an Argentine tango with professional Aljaž Škorjanec as a Christmas gift from the judges.
- Claudia Winkleman appears in a Love Actually–style skit with musical director Dave Arch.
- Six celebrity couples compete under judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke, with the studio audience choosing the winner.
- Scarlett Moffatt, Melanie Blatt, Nicholas Bailey, Babatunde Aléshé, Brian McFadden and Jodie Ounsley make up the celebrity line-up, while recent tributes and talk of successors and a private celebration are reported but not confirmed.