Today’s Strictly training footage was of our very own golden couple Matt and Aliona!

Things we learn from the training footage:

• Matt and Aliona are doing the cha cha cha
• Matt’s hips don’t know their left from their right
• Matt is learning to walk again
• Aliona isn’t worried
• She is going to have fun with Matt
• AND she is wearing wellies – we are guessing they are the ones Matt gave her!

What do you think to the training footage? Comment on the post or on twitter and we’ll post the best in our next update!

Check out this interview footage recorded just after the celebrities found out which professional they had been partnered with!

Skip to 1:42 to see Matt and Aliona speak:

Interviewer: Now he [Matt] was saying that whoever he gets he’s going to take them to the farm and like … make them muck out

Aliona: I cannot wait. We’ve already spoken about it. There is going to be some extremely funny and great VTs!

Matt: Yep,Yeah

And as twitter training is telling us – both are holding up their end of the promise!

As you may have noticed via the sidebar, images and video from the Strictly Come Dancing  Series 8 Launch Show  have now been added to the galleries.

What do you think the pairing of Aliona with Matt and with Jared? Drop us a comment

Have a favourite dance of the night? Why not vote in our new poll

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Check out the first interviews (albeit brief!) with each of the new partnerships:

Make sure to watch the first dances on Friday 1st October and Saturday 2nd October on BBC.

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