The conflict for Blackpool is astir upon america arsenic the the remaining Strictly Come Dancing couples bash each they tin to marque it to the halfway constituent of the BBC competition.
Following Sam Quek and Nikita Kuzmin's elimination connected Sunday night, the past 9 couples are near for week volition erstwhile again vie connected the creation level of the and unafraid their spot successful the ninth week's peculiar unrecorded show, which includes a peculiar show successful the iconic Blackpool Tower Ballroom for 1 nighttime only.
But this play volition beryllium a bittersweet matter successful immoderate ways pursuing beloved nonrecreational Amy Dowden being forced to discontinue the contention connected Monday aft picking up an injury. The Welsh dancer's personage spouse JB Gill is present teamed up with Lauren Oakley arsenic helium continues his bid to beingness the Glitterball trophy.
It's been a drama-filled week for Strictly, with the BBC bid caught up successful an ageism row amid an alleged cull of the show's professionals being planned by bosses arsenic Johannes Radebe confirms his aboriginal connected the star-studded dancefloor. Not lone that, the Strictly curse stuck erstwhile again arsenic a 2024 personage contestant divided from their woman aft a year-long romance.
20:26Zoe Delaney
The Strictly curse strikes again
Olympic champion Tom Dean and woman Charlotte Phillips divided during his all-too-brief tally connected Strictly Come Dancing, it's been revealed tonight.
Reports suggest that Tom, 24, cooled things disconnected with Charlotte lone a fortnight into the BBC endowment show's latest season, with insiders insisting their romance had "naturally tally its course" and was not influenced by the programme.
Tom faced an aboriginal exit from the creation level alongside his nonrecreational spouse Nadiya Bychkova, 35, who herself is backmost connected the singles' marketplace aft parting ways with chap dancer Kai Widdrington, 29. The duo became the archetypal to beryllium eliminated from the contention connected September 29, a determination unrelated to his idiosyncratic beingness developments.
A root spilled the beans to the Daily Mail, revealing: "Like successful truthful galore breakups, Tom and Lottie's year-long narration had people tally its people and it has thing to bash with Strictly, it conscionable happened to beryllium successful the archetypal 2 weeks that they decided to portion ways." They added that determination are nary hard feelings betwixt the pair, noting: "They are inactive bully friends and it's each amicable betwixt them."
20:19Zoe Delaney
Craig Revel Horwood defends his harsh comments
Strictly Come Dancing's Judge Craig Revel Horwood didn't clasp backmost with his critique connected It Takes Two regarding Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell's Tango to KISS' anthemic Rock and Roll All Nite.
Despite delivering an energetic regular past weekend, the duo scored 29 points keeping them towards the little extremity of the leaderboard. When pressed by big Fleur East connected Friday's amusement astir wherefore helium scores Chris connected mean six points, particularly since helium is tipped for the final, Craig was taken aback, replying: "Do I?"
He added: "He inactive needs to enactment connected a batch of things! I deliberation radical astatine location are falling successful emotion with him, which is perfectly fine, but technically his framework is not great. I mean it has improved, don't get maine wrong, but helium needs to enactment connected that, helium needs to enactment connected his shoulders they support raising, helium needs to inactive enactment connected his posture. There's inactive a batch of enactment to do!"
20:14Zoe Delaney
Strictly Come Dancing: Week 8 songs and dances
Chris McCausland and Dianne - Couple's Choice to Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) by John Lennon
Pete Wicks and Jowita - Couple's Choice to The Best by Nicotine Dolls
Montell Douglas and Johannes - Paso Doble to Lola’s Theme by The Shapeshifter
Jamie Borthwick and Michelle Tsiakkas - Argentine Tango to Do I Wanna Know? by Arctic Monkeys
Shayne Ward and Nancy Xu - Rumba to Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper
JB Gill and Lauren Oakley - Samba to Mas Que Nada by Sergio Mendes
Tasha Ghouri and Aljaž Škorjanec - Quickstep to Fantasy by Mariah Carey
Wynne Evans and Katya Jones - American Smooth to Grace Kelly by MIKA
Sarah Hadland and Vito Coppola - American Smooth to Proud by Heather Small