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The Sunday Mirror claims equal pay for equal work concerns have led to a boring Strictly line-up this year. The paper says in the past the BBC has offered more to some than others, to attract big name stars. But this year, there's a flat fee of £25,000 to cover training and those who go out in the first six weeks.

There's £15,000 extra paid out to each of the stars who survives past Hallowe'n and onto Blackpool.
Staying on for the quarter and semi-finals brings a further £35,000 bonus. The three stars who make the final get £50,000. The winner's bonus is £25,000 on top - making the Glitterball worth a total £100k in hard cash.

• 2018 contest Susannah Constantine doesn't seem to understand how the National Treasure on each year's Strictly emerges. It is for the audience to decide on the endearing qualities of talentless dancers, and then to irritate the professional judges week by week, by voting to keep them at the expense of those with more ability. Susannah tells readers of the Mail On Sunday what to do: "Strictly fans have a long and proud tradition of voting for outsiders who aren’t exactly setting the judges on fire – think John Sergeant or Ann Widdecombe – and I’m on it to do the best I can."  Out pretty early, I think, Susannah.