Who is Adam Thomas on BBC Strictly Come Dancing 2023?

Strictly Come Dancing is waltzing back on our screens with its 21st season.

Fifteen stars will battle it out to win the coveted Glitterball trophy, being put through their paces with challenging, new routines each week. Strictly's launch show airs on Saturday September 16 and will unveil which professional dancers this year's contestants have been paired with.

It will also feature a performance from judges Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke and head judge Shirley Ballas, as well as current Strictly champions Hamza Yassin and Jowita Przystał. Meanwhile singer Jessie Ware will perform one of her biggest hits.

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Among the celebrities taking to the dancefloor this year is actor and TV presenter Adam Thomas. The 35-year-old, from Manchester, is perhaps best known for portraying Adam Barton in ITV soap Emmerdale between 2009 and 2018.

More recently, he's returned to Waterloo Road on BBC One to reprise his role of Donte Charles. The series, which began in 2006 and ran for nine years, was rebooted in January this year.

It saw Adam star as Donte, a former bad boy pupil-turned-parent, alongside Katie Griffiths as Chlo Charles and their children Izzie, played by Adam's real-life niece Scarlett Thomas, and their son Tommy, played by Adam's son Teddy.

Adam shares two children with his wife Caroline Daly; nine-year-old Teddy and five-year-old Elsie-Rose Thomas.

Elsewhere on TV, he appeared in ITV’s I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here - and his efforts went down so well that he was invited back to co-host the spin-off I’m a Celebrity: Extra Camp. He also teamed up with his brothers Ryan and Scott for six-part ITV travel