Love Island’s Cach Mercer has been announced as the fifth celebrity to be taking part in this year’s series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Cach, a professional dancer, won Love Island in 2025 alongside his ex-girlfriend Toni Laites before splitting seven months later.
He joins an already star-studded line-up of Kim Kardashian’s celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton, Australian singer Delta Goodrem, WAG Dani Dyer and actress Lacey Turner, who were unveiled earlier this month.
The news was officially revealed on Thursday on @bbcstrictly’s official social channels via Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube.
Yet, fans were quick to notice that Strictly awkwardly tagged the wrong person on Instagram instead of Cach’s account.
Cash also noticed the blunder as he posted a giff of Dwayne Johnson looking confused.
Users pointed out in the comments: ‘Don’t think that’s his account u tagged there babs x’,
Love Island’s Cach Mercer has been announced as the fifth celebrity to be taking part in this year’s series of Strictly Come Dancing
Cach, a professional dancer, won Love Island in 2025 alongside his ex-girlfriend Toni Laites before splitting seven months later
Yet, fans were quick to notice that Strictly awkwardly tagged the wrong person on Instagram instead of Cach’s account
‘How does @bbcstrictly manage to tag the wrong celebrity account. Here your celeb @cacherel_’,
‘That’s not their account’, ‘Not the wrong handle’, ‘Wrong user’, ‘You’ve tagged the wrong person’.
Cach has earned a legion of social media fans on TikTok for showcasing his Afrobeat, hip hop and street dance moves.
As well as modelling and DJing, Cach puts on dance classes for aspiring dancers.
Strictly Come Dancing returns to screens later this year and the rest of the lineup will be announced this summer.
It comes after Emma Barton appeared to ‘give away’ another Strictly contestant in an awkward moment on The One Show on Thursday night.
Emma seemed to accidentally reveal that Roman Kemp is in the lineup as she made an awkward blunder on live TV.
As host Alex Jones asked Emma about her EastEnders co-star Lacey starring on the show, she asked: ‘Have you spoken to her? How is she feeling?’
Emma replied: ‘She’s such a gorgeous wonderful woman and the audience are going to love her. And I’m so proud of her because it’s nerve-racking, isn’t it. And it’s scary.’
As Rob Rinder joined Emma on the couch, she said ‘Oh you know’ before also pointing at Roman and adding: ‘Roman you know as well.’
As Alex and Roman looked at each other awkwardly, Roman insisted: ‘I have never done it. I’ve never done it.’
Meanwhile Rob was left smiling embarrassingly as he realised Emma’s faux pas.
The Daily Mail have contacted both Roman’s representatives and the BBC for comment.
Kim Kardashian’s celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton was the fourth star announced
Delta Goodrem was revealed as the third contestant confirmed for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing
Dani Dyer is also making her Strictly comeback after she was forced to pull out last year due to an injury
Lacey Turner was the first contestant announced for 2026
Last week Delta Goodrem was revealed as the third contestant confirmed for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing.
The Aussie superstar, 41, comes fresh from competing in the Eurovision Song Contest, where she finished fourth.
The news was announced on the BBC’s official social media pages, which revealed: ‘The class of 2026 is growing. She’s performed on the world’s biggest stages and the ballroom is next. It’s Delta Goodrem!!’
It comes after it was revealed Dani Dyer is also making her Strictly comeback.
The TV star has been confirmed as the second celeb to take part in the 2026 series of Strictly Come Dancing one year after she was forced to quit the 2025 run after fracturing her ankle during rehearsals.
Dani said: ‘I am so excited to be back in the ballroom this September!’
‘I just cannot wait to get my dancing shoes back on and hopefully this time around I can actually make it to week one! I’m just over the moon and cannot wait to find out who else is doing it!’
Upon her exit last year, BBC bosses confirmed the door would be left open for ‘heartbroken’ Dani to return for the 2026 series as they said they ‘hope to welcome her back to the ballroom in the future’.
Meanwhile Lacey Turner was the first contestant announced for 2026 as she is currently on an extended break from playing her iconic character Stacey Slater in the soap and is keen to use her time to train for the BBC competition, which will start in September.
In a video shared to Instagram, Lacey admitted she is ‘terrified’ to be taking part in the BBC show, which will return to screens in September, and can’t wait to ‘learn a new skill’.
She said: ‘Hello it’s Lacey Turner I can’t quite believe that I’m actually saying this but I want to let you in on a little secret.
‘This September I will be taking my little toes onto the dancefloor to do Strictly Come Dancing.
‘I can’t believe it. I’m so excited and terrified at the same time but I’ve had so many friends do Strictly and I thought it was about time that I plucked up the courage and made my way onto that dance floor. So, there you go the secret is out, see you there in September.’
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