Strictly Come Dancing champion Karen Carney has returned to the dance floor.
The former professional footballer, who won the last season of the show, is set to show off her moves again.
During the launch show of the new season, Carney and Carlos Gu will recreate the jive they performed in the first week they competed, with the dance performed to One Way or Another by Blondie.
The pair also performed the dance in the finale.
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First look photos released ahead of the launch show show the pair back in their football kit costumes, giving it their all on the dance floor during the routine.
In one shot, Carney is seen cheering at the camera while Gu laughs and they are covered in streamers that have been dropped over them from above.
Another photo shows them standing next to new host Emma Willis, with the trio laughing and looking out into the studio audience.
Other photographs taken during the recording of the launch show see Willis alongside her new co-hosts Johannes Radebe and Josh Widdicombe.
One sees them standing in a line posing on the steps of the dance floor, with her and Radebe holding hands and smiling nervously while Widdicombe looks shocked.
Another sees them forming a circle and holding each other, while one of the other snaps sees them posing together in the ‘Clauditorium’, holding cue cards with the show’s logo printed on them.
That area of the studio – upstairs above the dancefloor where the dance partners are interviewed after their performances and receive their scores – was named after former host Claudia Winkleman, who exited the series last year alongside co-host Tess Daly.
Apart from the changes in the hosting line-up, the new season of Strictly also features five new professional dancers – Aleksandra Isaeva, Cristian Priori, Lethabo Monametsi, Maddie Ingoldsby and Mark Karmalita.
First look photos also show them taking part in a group number with the rest of the professionals.
One shows them posing together atop a structure, with a huge glitterball hanging underneath them and the fellow professionals on different levels around them.
All dressed in red, they also pose in a shot that shows them close up in the studio.
Another shows all the celebrities dressed in sparkles, standing in two lines on the dance floor.
For the first time ever, each celebrity and professional dancer will discover the identity of their partner in front of the Strictly studio audience via three specially-choreographed group dance routines.
The celebrity contestants this season include former Love Island winner Dani Dyer-Bowen, actress Melanie Walters, former England footballer Shaun Wright-Phillips and Australian singer Delta Goodrem.
Strictly Come Dancing returns to BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Saturday, September 19, at 7.25pm.
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