All the gossip from day one of Strictly Come Dancing 2017 rehearsals

Many of the celebrities and professionals managed to fit in a bit of tweeting in between the first day of rehearsals on Monday, with Susan Calman making good on her promise of essentially kidnapping Kevin Clifton by taking him to her house and enveloping him in cats...

https://twitter.com/SusanCalman/status/907358141221933056

Oh, and he also met Susan's wife!

https://twitter.com/SusanCalman/status/907306825212710913

Meanwhile Rev. Richard Coles revealed himself to be such a dance expert, he's multitasking already - and also tweeted that pro partner Dianne Buswell has started calling him "Revo". Amazing.

https://twitter.com/RevRichardColes/status/907364144671805440

Alexandra Burke and Gorka Marquez were all smiles after they completed their first day of rehearsals:

https://twitter.com/gorkamarquez1/status/907346243122319360

And it turned out they were also training in the same place as Aston Merrygold and Janette Manrara! Looks like those days of X Factor rivalry circa 2008 are firmly in the past...

https://twitter.com/JManrara/status/907393145108922368

Davood Ghadami and Nadiya Bychkova looked pretty elated to have finished for the day, although hopefully this isn't their finished routine:

https://twitter.com/NadiyaBychkova/status/907349232658665472

And Mollie King and AJ Pritchard were rather chuffed to have nailed a single move. Well, everyone's got to start somewhere, eh?

https://twitter.com/MollieKing/status/907212484322488320

Giovanni Pernice was also left speechless by partner Debbie McGee. We're hoping that's a good thing...

https://twitter.com/pernicegiovann1/status/907271295062212609

Strictly Come Dancing returns on Saturday 23rd September on BBC1