Who are the pairings on Strictly Come Dancing 2021?

This year’s new crop of celebrity hopefuls have been paired up with their professional partners for Strictly Come Dancing.

Among the pairings this year is former Great British Bake Off winner John Whaite, who has been partnered with Johannes Radebe, making them the first all-male partnership on the BBC One series.

Here is a rundown of who has been paired up with who:

1. Oti Mabuse and Ugo Monye

Oti Mabuse will be hoping for a triple win alongside rugby player Ugo Monye. South African-born Mabuse has won the series for two consecutive years alongside soap star Kelvin Fletcher, followed with a win a year later alongside comedian Bill Bailey.

2. John Whaite and Johannes Radebe

Bake Off star Whaite had set his hopes on being paired with South African dancer Radebe for the show’s first all-male pairing.

He previously said: “I hope it’s Johannes because I think it’d be really important for him to have the first all-male couple – I think it’d have a very powerful message for him as well.

“That’s not to say that in the future it has to be two gay men.

“It could be two straight men doing an all-male, but I think for the first one it would be particularly important for it to be Johannes.”

3. Adam Peaty and Katya Jones

Katya Jones will be aiming for gold with another Olympic partner, swimming champion Adam Peaty. Russian dancer Jones was paired last year with Olympic gold medallist boxer Nicola Adams in the show’s first female same-sex couple. She previously won the show in 2017 with actor Joe McFadden.