THEY are some of the most famous faces on TV, but just how much do we know about the true identity of the Strictly stars?
It's not uncommon for celebrities to use fake names that better suit their stage persona.
Or for some of them, it's about having a boundary between public and personal life.
So let's take a look at the real names of the Strictly cast.
Tess Daly
Tess isn't short for Tessa or Theresa. In fact her name isn't even Tess, it's Helen.
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She was born Helen Elizabeth Daly in 1969 in Stockport, Cheshire.
Tess has presented Strictly Come Dancing alongside best pal Claudia Winkleman since 2004.
Married to Vernon Kay, Tess has been in the public eye since she was 17 years old after she started a career in modelling.
It was her agent who suggested the name change, saying her name was "too familiar".
Tess explained that her agent was "obsessed with Natassja Kinski" who featured in the film Tess, so that was the name that was chosen.
"So Tess it was. I was gullible and impressionable. Mind you, two weeks later I was in Japan then travelled the world. Paris, Milan, New York," she said.
“My mum’s really the only person who still calls me Helen, and that’s not often. She tends to call me ‘love’, so when she does say ‘Helen’ it can take me a while to respond," she told The Weekend.
The presenter added: "I’ve never changed it by deed poll or anything because I think it would be disrespectful to my parents."
Anton Du Beke
Anton Du Beke did an excellent job of making his actual name sound way more fancy.
The judge on the show is actually called Anthony Paul Beke and growing up, his family and friends calling him Tony.
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Anton was born in Sevenoaks, Kent to a Hungarian father Antal Xavier Beke, and a Spanish mother, Ascensión 'Conchita' Lema.
He has never explained why he chose to change his name.
It could be that he wanted to create space between his professional life and his childhood.
Anton told Kate Garraway on ITV's Life Stories that his dad stabbed him when he was a child.
According to Anton, his dad was an alcoholic and hated the fact he was a dancer.
On Boxing Day his dad attacked him so viciously that he spent three days in hospital with stab wounds to his leg and stomach.
Les Dennis
Dennis isn't Les's last name, it's his middle name. His full name is Leslie Dennis Heseltine.
He left school in 1972 with one A-level in Art and decided he wanted to be a comedian.
Les started performing in working men's clubs across the north west of England before he made his big break.
In 1974 he won ITV talent show New Faces and later became a regular face on Saturday night TV.
Les has been married three times, with his most famous wife being Amanda Holden.
Darcey Bussell
Former judge Dame Darcey Andrea Bussell was born Marnie Mercedes Darcey Pemberton Crittle.
The ballerina was born in London to Andrea Williams and her Australian partner John Crittle.
The couple divorced when Darcey was three and Darcey was then adopted by her mum's new husband - Philip Bussell.
Darcey selected her second middle name as her stage name and never explained why she decided not to use Marnie Mercedes as her professional name.
Amanda Abbington
Amanda was born Amanda Jane Smith, but she changed her surname to Abbington.
Despite being married previously to Martin Freeman and currently to Jonathan Goodwin, she chose to keep her fictional surname.
She met Martin on the set of Men Only in 2000.
The couple appeared together on screen in productions such as The Debt, The Robinsons, The Good Night and Sherlock.
Amanda and Martin, who have two children, a son and a daughter, lived in Hertfordshire before their separation in 2016.
Motsi Mabuse
Motsi's real name is actually Motshegetsi Mabuse and she was born in Mankwe.
The name Motshegetsi is said to mean "supporter" in the Bantu language of the Tswana people, which is spoken in South Africa.
Motsi, 40, grew up under apartheid in a township in South Africa which saw her and her sisters forced to take a community minibus to their convent school because they were banned from white public transport.
She previously said that during her formative years she was treated as though she was worth “nothing” in her home country, enduring segregation and racism.
But then she was introduced to dance, which helped her through the painful times of growing up under apartheid.
She said: “I’m so thankful for the world of dance because if I had grown up with just the South African bitterness of the very hard childhood we had, and I’d never experienced the love of the dance world, then I probably would have been a very sad person."
