17 glorious GIFs to help you celebrate #EdBallsDay in style

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17 glorious GIFs to help you celebrate #EdBallsDay in style
We predict many, many 'Strictly Come Dancing' GIFs for this year's Ed Balls Day. Credit: Matt McNutty/SilverHub/REX/Shutterstock

It's 28 April, folks, and that can only mean one thing: it's officially time to celebrate Britain's favourite Twitter holiday.

#EdBallsDay -- the anniversary of the day in 2011 when former Labour MP Ed Balls tweeted his own name -- has been a long-standing tradition since 2013.

This year, though, the opportunities for sweet, sweet GIF-based enjoyed are at a new peak -- all thanks to Balls' 2016 appearance on popular BBC dance show Strictly Come Dancing.

To help you celebrate in style, we've created 17 handy, ready-to-tweet GIFs of the great man in action. Simply pick your GIF, click the "GIPHY" link, hit download and you're good to go.

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Happy Ed Balls Day, everyone.

Topics BBC X/Twitter

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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