When Strictly Come Dancing is off-air, one of the favourite pastimes of the media is to speculate about its next series. Usually this takes the form of which celebrities will be signing up, but in recent years it’s been around the question of when the series will finally introduce same-sex couples.
Last year, the producers gave us the most hope yet, when they said they were “completely open” to the idea of same-sex couples competing, but this ultimately took the form of professional pairings,