Dancer, singer and all-round showman Anton Du Beke is going solo with his new stage show.
The Sevenoaks-born Strictly star will be heading out on the road with his all-singing, all-dancing variety tour, An Evening With Anton Du Beke and Friends.
The tour, which will be stopping off at four Kent venues, runs until December, with a special series of Christmas shows towards the end of the year.
His first stop in the county will be Dartford’s Orchard West Theatre, where fans can enjoy an evening of crooner classics, showbiz anecdotes and stunning choreography from the ‘King of Ballroom’.
The former Strictly pro will be joined by guest dance partners and singer Lance Ellington, who regularly performs at Ronnie Scott’s in London and has worked with artists such as Sting and Tina Turner.
Anton joined the Strictly team as a professional dancer for the first series in 2004 alongside judge Craig Revel Horwood - the pair are the only original members of the cast still working on the show.
He returned to the dancefloor for 18 series, partnering with celebrities such as Ann Widdecombe, Emma Barton, Nancy Dell'Olio and Ruth Langsford.
In 2021, the 57-year-old moved over to the judging panel, replacing Bruno Tonioli as a permanent judge, and has helped crown the past three years’ winners - Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice, Hamza Yassin and Jowita Przystał and Ellie Leach and Vito Coppola.
Since becoming a familiar face on the dance competition, Anton has also ventured into music, having released an album in 2017, and writing, with five fiction novels under his belt.
The new tour comes to the Orchard West Theatre in Dartford on Saturday, March 2.
The show will then come to the Assembly Hall Theatre in Tunbridge Wells on Wednesday, November 6.
The tour also has dates lined up at Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre (March 21) and Bromley’s Churchill Theatre (March 24), but these performances have already sold out.
You can find the full list of tour dates and book tickets online here.
Anton will be taking a break from his solo show in the summer to pair up with fellow Strictly cast member Giovanni Pernice.
The duo will be bringing their new show, Anton and Giovanni Together, to Dartford and Tunbridge Wells in June. You can book tickets here.
Giovanni is also currently touring the country with his own solo show, Let Me Entertain You.
It will stop off in Canterbury, Tunbridge Wells and Bromley throughout this year and into 2025.
