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Gregg Wallace, Jennifer Gibney and Tim Wonnacott have rounded out the Strictly Come Dancing cast.

The three final celebrities taking part in the BBC One hit were announced live on The One Show tonight.

Wallace is best known for his role on MasterChef, while Wonnacott will be familiar to fans of Bargain Hunt. Meanwhile, Gibney is best known for her role in the sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys.

"As a child I wrote to Blue Peter asking, 'Could I dance with Pan's People?'" Gibney joked. "Now at last I get a chance to earn my badge - excited doesn't cover it!"

Meanwhile, Wallace said that he loves the show and dancing, adding: "I cannot wait to get engrossed and live in a Strictly bubble!"

Wonnacott revealed that he is "delighted" to be part of the cast, saying: "My wife and I are big fans of the show and this...

I hold Hammer Films' sole sci-fi outing Moon Zero Two (1969) in the same esteem... actually maybe 'bracket' is a better word; in the same 'bracket', then, as Stanley Donen's 1980 Sf flop Saturn 3. Both were attempting to ride the coat-tails of popular cinematic Sf outings (2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien, respectively) and both were full of interesting ideas and engaging production design under the top British talents of the day. And both are stinkers, really. In terms of 'guilty pleasure', each comes under the full penalty of the law, with Saturn 3 a hanging offence.

But in truth there's never been an Sf movie quite like Moon Zero Two, and perhaps it would take a company (such as Hammer then was) that knows absolutely nothing about sci-fi to even think of coming up with a 'space western' six years before the cameras rolled on Star Wars.

Moon Zero Two...