Strictly have retweeted that last night opened with a peak of 8.6 million.

The average was 8m - about bang on what last year's first live show got.

Peak last night of 10.2m and share of 41%. Average was 8.7m

Just read that the average was over a million up on last year as well.

Without +1 included, it just beat the X Factor in average - 8.72m to 8.69m.