So that is that.

Go here for the full story on the nominees for the 2015 Sports Personality of the Year.

And meet the contenders for this year's award.

Lizzie Armitstead

Lucy Bronze

Tyson Fury

Adam Peaty

Greg Rutherford

Mo Farah

Andy Murray

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Chris Froome

Kevin Sinfield

Max Whitlock

Lewis Hamilton

Presenter Clare Balding is on The One Show couch and is about to reveal the nominees for Sports Personality of the Year 2015.

I wonder if there will be any surprises?

What's your favourite moment from previous BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards?

Was it Sir Bradley Wiggins' winning speech in 2012?

Was it when the crowd rose for Sir Bobby Charlton when he won the Lifetime Award in 2008?

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Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton won last year's Sports Personality of the Year award in Glasgow, taking 34% of the 620,932 votes cast, with golfer Rory McIlroy second and athlete Jo Pavey third.

Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was named Overseas Personality of the Year, and the England women's rugby union team took the Team of the Year prize.

European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley won Coach of the Year, six-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy was honoured with a lifetime achievement award, and Young Sports Personality of the Year was given to gymnast Claudia Fragapane, who won four gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

So who puts together the shortlist for the main Sports Personality of the Year award?

Here is your panel:

• Dame Mary Peters (1972 Olympic pentathlon champion)
• Maggie Alphonsi (England women's Rugby World Cup winner)
• Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson (11-time Paralympic gold medallist)
• Jermaine Jenas (former England international footballer)
• Hazel Irvine (BBC Sport presenter)
• Baroness Sue Campbell (Chair of the Youth Sport Trust)
• Cliff Hayes (associate head of sport content at the Sun)
• Tim Hallissey (head of sport at the Times)
• Ian Prior (head of sport at the Guardian and Observer)
• Barbara Slater (BBC director of sport)
• Philip Bernie (BBC head of TV sport)
• Carl Doran (Sports Personality of the Year executive editor).

Did you know you could vote for this year's Overseas Sports Personality of the Year right now?

To vote, you will need to be registered with a BBC iD. Signing up only takes a matter of seconds, and creating your BBC iD now means you will be in a position to cast your vote for the main Sports Personality of the Year award on Sunday, 20 December. 

The contenders:

• Usain Bolt (athletics)
• Dan Carter (rugby union)
• Novak Djokovic (tennis)
• Katie Ledecky (swimming)
• Jordan Spieth (golf)
• Serena Williams (tennis)

The full details for this award can be found here.

So when is Sports Personality of the Year? Where is it being held?

Belfast's 8,000-capacity Odyssey Arena will host the awards spectacular on Sunday, 20 December.

It will be the first time that Northern Ireland has hosted the event, which first went on the road in 2006.

Brit Awards? No thanks. Oscars? You must be joking.

No other nominees announcement* causes as much excitement, controversy, disputes and delight as the 'big reveal' of the shortlist for Sports Personality of the Year.

You need to tune into BBC One at 19:00 GMT or click the play button on this page, because The One Show will be making the big announcement.

If you're unlucky enough to not be able to receive BBC TV coverage, then I am here to reveal the names myself.

It's a BBC digi-simul-cast. 

*The opinion of some

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Before we go all Sports Personality, let's leave the last word of the day to Judy Murray - who, quite frankly, could win the Davis Cup if she declared her family an independent country. She spoke to 5 live earlier about her sons' achievements and their celebrations last night. 

"The players went out for the official dinner back at the venue and the family waited for them at the team hotel Andy came in with his suit on and went straight back upstairs and came back down in his joggers and t-shirt. Some things never change," she said. 

"We had some champagne at the table. Some fizz was consumed. Everybody was having a great time."

On seeing her two sons winning the doubles together, she said "It is a very special moment. The great thing for them is that they know each other very well but they also know each other’s tennis very well. 

"They intuitively know what they need to do. They’re both great fighters, great competitors. For me watching them, it’s always the doubles which gets me the most. It was really quite amazing to be able to watch that. "

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In case you missed it, new world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury's father John is a very proud dad.

So proud that earlier at a media conference in Bolton, following his son's victory over Wladimir Klitschko, he embarked on an incredible rant in praise of the 27-year-old.  

Ali Carter says he was struggling with abdominal pain caused by Crohn's Disease during his UK Championship third-round exit against John Higgins. 

The two-time World Championship finalist lost 6-2 defeat at York's Barbican Centre, having previously overcome a battle with cancer. 

"I've got such a handicap against all the other players, living with this Crohn's Disease that I've got," he said. "You can't settle, when you've got constant abdominal pain like I have at the moment. I don't want to keep going on about it but it really is p***ing me right off at the minute."

Don't forget that in addition to the Sports Personality nominees being revealed at 19:00 GMT on the One Show, the Monday Night Club is well worth a listen on BBC Radio 5 live with Mark Chapman. Kevin Kilbane and Robbie Savage are among his guests. 

Forgive us for not mentioning this sooner but former England, Leicester and Everton striker Gary Lineker is 55 today. You may have seen him presenting Match of the Day recently where he looks slightly different.  

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Peter Ebdon said his vegan diet helped him defy sleep deprivation to send world champion Stuart Bingham crashing out of the UK Championship at the last-32 stage.

Ebdon only finished his 6-5 second-round win over Dominic Dale at 1.30am and was back on the table at York's Barbican Centre less than 12 hours later. 

He said: "I've probably had four or five bananas today, I've had some apples, grapes. I feel as fresh as a daisy. It would have been so easy for me to fold today and I just felt fantastic. 

"I'm absolutely over the moon, it's not every day you beat a world champion."

Zinedine Zidane's son, Luca, has reportedly been sent off , externalfor clashing heads with an opponent during Real Madrid’s youth game with Atletico Madrid over the weekend. 

It had echoes of Zinedine's infamous headbutt on Italian defender Marco Materazzi, while playing for France during the 2006 World Cup final. 

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BBC Sport at the Barbican Centre, York

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World champion Stuart Bingham suffered a shock defeat against Peter Ebdon at the the third-round stage of this year's UK Championship.

Bingham has struggled to find his best form since winning at the Crucible but had been impressive in winning through to the last 32. 

However, former world champion Ebdon wore down the Essex man in a tense opening six frames before easing to victory.

John Higgins joined Ebdon in round four, with a clinical 6-2 victory over Ali Carter.

Barcelona have filed a formal complaint against two former Real Madrid players turned pundits after they suggested Barca forward Neymar deserved the kick he received from Real midfielder Isco in this month's La Liga 'Clasico'.

Isco, who had come on as a substitute 10 minutes into the second half of Barca's 4-0 win at the Bernabeu, lashed out in apparent frustration at Neymar in the 85th minute and was shown a straight red card.

According to Barca, former Real players Manolo Sanchis and Poli Rincon "publically and repeatedly justified the aggression" on Spanish radio and the club said on Monday they had filed a complaint with a Spanish government commission that seeks to combat violence in sport.

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The Ballon D'or nominees were announced earlier and you can probably guess who was involved. But come 19:00 GMT the BBC Sports Personality of the Year contenders will be revealed on the One Show on BBC One and it promises to be a little bit more tricky to predict. 

Who do you think deserves a nomination?

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Only goal difference separates Premier League leaders Manchester City and second-place Leicester City but, on average, Manuel Pellegrini's players cost more than 10-times the amount of their Foxes counterparts, says new research by the CIES Football Observatory. , external

Across Europe's big five leagues, only Real Madrid have fielded more expensive players than Manchester City, whose average cost is £19.9m per player.

By contrast, Leicester's stars cost an average of £1.76m. Real top the list with players who set them back £21.6m each. Ouch.