BBC Strictly Come Dancing's icons week dances confirmed for remaining 10 couples

Music legends Taylor Swift and Beyonce are set to be celebrated during Strictly Come Dancing's first-ever icons week. On Saturday night, the remaining 10 celebrity contestants and their professional dance partners will perform routines to iconic tracks from renowned singers.

The tribute to music "icons" will continue with the professional dancers delivering a Beyonce medley on Sunday's results show, featuring Johannes Radebe embodying the singer's alter ego, Sasha Fierce. Saturday's show will see JLS star JB Gill and Lauren Oakley perform a Bruno Mars medley for their couple's choice.

Lauren Oakley, a professional dancer without a partner this season, has stepped in to dance with Gill after his partner Amy Dowden was forced to miss last Sunday's results show due to a health scare, reports the Mirror. Amy Dowden, who has returned to competing on the show after undergoing treatment for breast cancer, including a mastectomy and chemotherapy, spoke about the people who inspire her during icons week.

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She mentioned: "My oncologists and doctors who helped me through my Crohn's and cancer battles. My parents, who instilled a strong work ethic in me, and my twin sister, who's my best friend. Also, my husband, who gave up his own competitive dancing career so I could shine."

Additionally, comedian Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell will pay tribute to rock band Kiss with a tango to Rock And Rock All Nite. Reality star Pete Wicks will channel Freddie Mercury as he salsas to Queen's Another One Bites The Dust alongside Jowita Przystal, while Olympian Montell Douglas and Johannes Radebe perform a waltz to Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You.

Paying homage to Anti-Hero singer Swift are former field hockey player Sam Quek and Nikita Kuzmin, who will dance an American smooth to Love Story. Quek said: " Taylor Swift. She's been through so much and been publicly humiliated."

"She started from the bottom, in terms of a little stage in a park with 20 people watching and she had setbacks but she kept going. We're similar ages so I can relate to Taylor Swift, even though she's in another stratosphere of fame and success.

"I've been through that in terms of setbacks and knockbacks and people saying you can't do that, you're not good enough, and then actually just being like, I can do it."

Miranda actress Sarah Hadland will embody Madonna in a cha cha to Like A Prayer, alongside her Strictly dance partner Vito Coppola, while Love Island star Tasha Ghouri and Aljaz Skorjanec celebrate US singer Pink with their couple's choice, What About Us.

Meanwhile, EastEnders star Jamie Borthwick and his partner Michelle Tsiakkas will samba to George Michael's song Faith, with singer Shayne Ward and Nancy Xu paying tribute to The Beatles with a quickstep to Help. The results show will also feature a performance from the K-Pop boyband dearALICE.