Strictly Come Dancing is just a few short days away, but this season is bringing with it a major change to how voting works.

The BBC competition's offer of premium-rate phone voting is now coming to an end.

Similar to the European Song Contest, voting will now take place online, with the BBC calling premium-rate phone voting " an outdated system and also expensive to run".

As a result, this year’s show will largely be down to a ‘personality’ contest amongst the contestants, according to Slingo.

It’s been predicted that the stars with a larger online presence will likely be the top contenders.

Those who are ‘talented dancers’ won’t be as favoured within the competition - with Dani Dyer and George Clarke both holding the strongest social reach of this year’s line-up.

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