The BBC One dance contest will broadcast live from the iconic Tower Ballroom on Saturday night (November 18). It comes after Ellie Leach, Annabel Croft, Layton Williams, Angela Rippon, Bobby Brazier, Nigel Harman and Angela Scanlon all made it through, alongside their professional dance partners, to week nine of the competition following last weekend's live show which saw Krishnan Guru-Murphy exit the competition before the annual tradition.

Gemma is also set to head to Blackpool from her Greater Manchester home as her fiance Gorka Marquez joins his fellow Strictly stars despite leaving the competition earlier in the series.

But Gemma isn't just there for Strictly as the mum-of-two plans to let her hair down. READ MORE: BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Katya Jones reveals Nigel Harman's late-night texts amid 'secret' READ MORE: Read more of today's top stories from the Manchester Evening News In a video shared to her Instagram Story, the 38-year-old from Bury said: "I'm 39 on Thursday.

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