It’s not long until the new series of Strictly Come Dancing begins on BBC1, and we can sense the preparations that are taking place behind the scenes. The dancers are limbering up, the judges are practising being pithy and Bruce Forsyth is desperately searching for his reading glasses, unaware that they’re balanced on top of his head like in that episode of The Wombles.

And the imminent arrival of Strictly Come Dancing means that there isn’t much time left for you to get a Strictly Come Dancing bet in before the series starts. Once all the contestants have done their first dance, everyone will know who’s good at dancing and who’s a rod-backed arsehole, and so the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds will shorten drastically. A bet placed now will be riskier, but the payoff will be bigger – as anyone who put a pre-series bet on Darren Gough last year will happily tell you once they’ve taken their diamond-studded jetpack off.

Here are today’s Strictly Come Dancing betting odds, for DJ Spoony, Ray Fearon and Claire King, with help from PaddyPower.com…

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