Anita Rani and Gleb Savchenko dancing the Jive to ‘The Boy Does Nothing’ (Alesha Dixon)

Craig – 8
Darcey – 8
Len – 9
Bruno – 9
Total: 34

Did the boy (and girl) do something for our judges?

Andrew – 8
Callum – 9
East – 9
Luke – 9
Total: 35

Luke: They come over here from Russia, take our cleaning jobs and end up doing a bloody Jive instead... sorry, just had to get James Jordan out of my system there. That was brilliant! I mean, I'd have rather the two 9s had gone to your American Smooth or Tango, but it was still a great Jive. The only thing I could fault is that you could point your feet a tad more, although since you had to dance the routine in trainers, I can't really blame you - nor can I look for too many faults in a dance where Gleb fires his crotch at someone. Well done.

That takes them to the top of the leaderboard with Andre!

ONE MARK MORE

Our next couple is Kellie and Kevin…

Kellie Bright and Kevin Clifton dancing the Waltz to ‘Love Ain’t Here Anymore’ (Take That)

Craig – 8
Darcey – 8
Len – 8
Bruno – 8
Total: 32

After that Waltz, is it the case the judges love for Kellie ain’t here anymore?

Andrew – 8
Callum – 7
East – 9
Luke – 7
Total: 31

East: Close to perfection, heavenly, it was a shame about the wobble towards the end but it was just like watching a Christmas Disney movie, divine.

It seems Luke and Callum’s love has gone away, to a town called yesterday…

ONE MARK LESS

Time for a slightly different tone, it’s Jeremy and Karen…

Jeremy Vine and Karen Clifton dancing the Tango to ‘Go West’ (The Village People)

Craig – 4
Darcey – 6
Len – 6
Bruno – 5
Total: 21

Well…err, did our judges wish he had ridden on into the distance on that horse after that Tango?

Andrew – 5
Callum – 5
East – 5
Luke – 5
Total: 20

Luke: Congratulations on making a Village People song about gay people moving to San Francisco more camp, I suppose. I'll tell you what, though, regardless of the... let's say sub-par dancing, I think I'm beginning to get the appeal. Call me crazy, but I think after seven weeks I'm getting on the Vine Van. Until one of my favourite goes out over you, that is. But hey, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it...

Together, our judges gave Vine five. Together…

ONE MARK LESS

Finally, it’s Georgia and Giovanni…

Georgia May Foote and Giovanni Pernice dancing the Samba to ‘Volare’ (Gipsy Kings)

Craig – 8
Darcey – 9
Len – 9
Bruno – 9
Total: 35

On a side note, did you know Giovanni is Italian?

Andrew – 9
Callum – 9
East – 10
Luke – 8
Total: 36

East: Have you ever heard that phrase, "Save the best to last" ? That applies to you my dear, I did not see the mistake, I thought that was FAB-U-LOUS, and if you continue this standard, we might see you in the final.

That puts them top of the leaderboard, that ten making the difference…

ONE MARK MORE

How does our leaderboard look now?

I'm starting to long for the days when Patrick Robinson dropped about six places on the leaderboard...

Yet another reasonably static leaderboard! Is it our judges? Have the Strictly judges started marking fairly coherently? Either way, our voters certainly differ from the GBP and I can tell you that...


Please rank the contestants from 1-10 (1 for least favourite, 10 for favourite) and PM those votes to me (IzzieStar). We're back in business now and the results will be at the usual time of 8pm tonight. See you then.

If just one lovely person could vote, it would solve a tie between eighth and ninth in the vote and mean we don't have to have a bottom three....

Really great show as always, Izzie and the judges this week!

I'm about to send in my vote, so I can break the tie. lol I feel so important with my vote, haha.

I've actually had about five votes since I posted that, but every vote is important regardless.

Now we’ve had our first SHOCK BOTTOM TWO of the series. Sort of, unless you thought Carol’s fanbase would hold out through more wafting/Jamelia was popular all the other rounds then it was most definitely a shock. Aside from Kellie being this series’ first leaderboard tumbler, my particular shock was reserved for Jamelia managed to claw back a few votes. You go girl.

Anyway, last weekend Andre managed to land himself in our bottom two once more, but that was before his triumphant storyline of the weekend and that can just lift a man from being glued to the bottom of the votes…

Topping the vote, with 12.56% of the vote are…

JAY AND ALIONA!

Third time in a row for them now. Although I will say this to you…until the last vote Jeremy Vine was topping the vote for pretty much the entirety of the day.

Also through to the next round, with 11.90%, of the vote are…

JEREMY AND KAREN!

So close, yet so far. In that one other couple actually ended up polling above them too…

And that couple, with 12.40% of your votes, is…

GEORGIA AND GIOVANNI!

Just one vote separated them from Jay in the end, but she’s definitely starting to capture your attention.

Also safe and set to dance once more, with 9.75% of the votes, are…

PETER AND JANETTE!

Thank you voters, because I was starting to die a little inside at the prospect of him filling up my bottom two for the entirety of the series.

Sadly taking their place in the bottom two though, with just 7.77% of the vote, are…

CAROL AND PASHA

They could very well be about to do the Iwan Thomas special. Although there wasn’t much special about anything associated with Iwan during his stint.

On a more cheerful note, the next couple safe with 8.43% of the vote, is…

KELLIE AND KEVIN!

So, as you can see, we’re set for a different bottom two at the very least!

Also safe and through once more, with 11.40%, are…

ANITA AND GLEB!

I haven’t really got a specific comment for this couple, but they did very well in the vote and I don’t want them to be left out so…great stuff.

Our next couple through, on the strength of 10.08% of your votes, are…

HELEN AND ALJAẐ!

It was her first real test, having stormed the leaderboard for the last few weeks, but she’s passed with flying colours.

That leaves us with just two couples. One is our bottom-two stalwart, the other is one of our bigger talking points. The couple with the fewest votes, just 6.78% of them, is…

KATIE AND ANTON

I will just mention that Ross didn’t vote, although I’m not sure that it would have made all that much difference anyway…

Jamelia and Tristan are safe with 8.93% of the vote. Well done to them.

DS? Having taste? WHAT IS THIS!?

Judges, you now have a bit of a decision on your hands. Probably not the toughest you'll face this series, but here we go...

EAST, which couple would you like to save and why?

Somewhat outraged... Especially since I ranked her top and Georgia bottom, and the entire internet has reversed that haha! What democracy XD