Strictly recreated 'Ed Balls day' with Twitter announcement

Ed Balls was announced as the first Strictly Come Dancing contestant today and there was only one way for the official Strictly Twitter account to confirm it: by recreating that Ed Balls tweet.

You know the one? Back in 2011 when Ed Balls was a Twitter newbie, he was searching his own name but got in a Twitter muddle and ended up simply tweeting his own name 'Ed Balls'.

There's a whole Ed Balls day - 28 April - when everyone tweets Ed Balls again.

As such, here's how the ex-MP had his entrance into the ballroom confirmed:

https://twitter.com/bbcstrictly/status/762548161290403840

Getting into the swing of it (good news for a man about to take part in a dancing competition) he replied with a simple tweet of his own:

https://twitter.com/edballs/status/762573729914318848

Ah the laughs. You never know, 'glitterball' might be soon.

Strictly Come Dancing returns to BBC1 later this year