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.

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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:

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:

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

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Strictly Come Dancing returns to BBC1 later this year

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