Darcey's been marking everyone twice this round. As if once wasn't enough!

Ed Balls and Katya Jones dancing the Cha Cha Cha to ‘Love Potion No.9’ (Hansel Martinez)

Craig – 4
Darcey – 7
Len – 7
Bruno – 8
Total: 26

I’m glad Ed didn’t suffer the same mishap that the previous Halloween to this routine did.

Oh bugger. I amended half and forgot the rest. Poor Bruno.

East – 6
Nicolas – 6
Queenie – 4
Ross – 6
Total: 22

Ross: Ah, the patented "Mark Benton Cha-Cha Breakthrough". I have to say, this wasn't bad at all, and for once the judges actually made sensible comments; you were on time, and there was a lot of content. It wasn't a bloody 8, Bruno, but it was good nonetheless.

Apparently Queenie was not feeling Ed’s ‘breakthrough’…

FOUR MARKS FEWER

I’d like to make it clear how saddened it made Nicolas to not give this a 10…

Poor Ed. You just couldn't let him have his moment, could you? Aside from that, Laura and Giovanni remain the only couple other than Danny and Oti to top the leaderboard outright, and Ore takes the biggest tumble in a leaderboard with relatively few major switches.


Please rank the contestants from 1-10 (1 for least favourite, 10 for favourite) and PM tome. I will return (hopefully) with the judges to reveal who'd be bowing out if we were in charge of things at 8pm tomorrow. See you then. 👻

Voted,
On time.
For once.

Wonderful show as always Izzie! Next week if we could omit Darcey completely rather than double her appearances it would be much better.

If only I had such power.

Fantastic show once again, Izzie! And fantastic judging from the judges! I just sent my vote for this week's show. Can't wait to judge soon.

Am I Darcey?

Another great show.

No. Darcey Bussell is Darcey.

On repeat watching, Laura's Tango turned into a 10. <3

Edit: So did Louise's Charleston, so apologies for Harsh Ross appearing this week.

for a 1st time I actually got round to voting (meaning to do it every week)

I THINK I can make 8pm.

Once again I forgot to sends PMs...

Thanks East. I have one judge who can make it, one who has sent their decision is advance and now you. I will also PM the other judge.

No problem.

Happy Halloween!

Last night Anastacia and Brendan went on their third attempt at the dance off. Third time unlucky etc etc. Both her and survivors Daisy and Aljaz have so far managed to avoid the Our Way dance off though so far...will that luck continue tonight?

Topping the vote with 13.22% are...

GREG & NATALIE!

A return to the top of the vote rankings for Greg and Natalie after a week off last weekend. I don't know if it has anything to do with Greg's general sexiness/underdog-ness or Craig moving Natalie to tears but that's what had me chain voting for them on Saturday. One more week and they will be tied in second place for times of topping the vote. (Surpassing Jay and Aliona's reign seems somewhat unlikely.)

Also safe with 10.91% are...

DANNY & OTI!

Our next couple received 12.23% of the vote...

CLAUDIA & AJ!

Picking up 11.90% of your votes are...

Turns out I made it

LAURA & GIOVANNI!

With the fewest votes of the round, 4.80% of them, and in the bottom two are...

I realise that with my stanning for Greg and my comments about Joanne in the Decisions thread (and my general disapproval of 9s for Ore) that this vote outcome doesn't look too good on me... I do have spreadsheets and PMs to prove my integrity though.

It's better news for our next couple, they have 11.74% of the vote...

No proof necessary from my point of view. Ore was bottom of my vote