Lilia Kopylova and Darren Bennett have joined the Strictly Gershwin team as our featured Ballroom couple, making the show bursting even more with special guests; luckily the Royal Albert Hall has no shortage of dressing rooms! Lilia and Darren are British National Professional Champions and have appeared in all of the BBC series, Strictly Come Dancing.

The technical department are busy watching reheasals of Strictly Gershwin to plot where the dancers are going, where they'll need costumes positioned and are doing lots of shopping trips to source the many props from the 20s, 30s and 40s needed for this mammouth production - they have to take special consideration that the props are light enough to be danced and won't damage the costumes or dancers!