And excruciating jokes (even as a superfan there’s nothing good to say about an iPad/eye patch based gag from the hosts in 2018).
Always the most entertaining moment of the launch show, the moment where the entire cast dances together at the end is usually chaos.
As is now tradition, the launch show kicked off with a show-stopping group number that began on the red carpet and ended on the Strictly dancefloor.
The launch show was endearingly predictable: panto comments from Craig Revel Horwood, sequins galore, Claudia Winkleman being unable to look out from beneath her slightly-too-long fringe…