And people have the audacity to moan about the Strictly leaderboard ties!


Please rank the contestants 1-9 (1 for least favourite, 9 for favourite) and PM them to me. Results tonight at 8pm.

Ross, did someone upset you or drop something very heavy on your foot whilst you were scoring? Or do you just need a hug? 😂

Wonderful show Izzie. Quite low scores from the OW judges considering it's week seven!

Crikey, the Our Way judges were tough this week, and if I may say so, I think Izzie was the most stable judge.

I think Ross having a particularly strict week affected things. If you average out the rest of us, a few would probably have crept into the mid-thirties.


I absolutely agree.

Just call me Ross Revel-Horwood. .

I'd be alarmed if our honourable host was in any way a maniac! Just don't mention anyone from Take That, or Selasi

My feelings for Take That have diminished greatly since Jason bowed out and took his backing dancing with him, I'll have you know!

Earlier today we got an insight into what four forum members thought of last night’s edition of Strictly Come Dancing. The outcome? Just under half of the couples tied on 31.

As you’ve just seen, Laura Whitmore and Giovanni Pernice bowed out of the series in a (fairly shocking?) dance off against Ore Oduba and Joanne Clifton. Some of you might recall that Ore was the Our Way elimination last weekend, while so far Laura has avoided the Our Way bottom two…just how has the vote gone this weekend?

Topping the vote with 15.06% are…

GREG RUTHERFORD & NATALIE LOWE!

Well done to them on topping the votes once more. That makes it five occasions for this pairing, tying them with Pixie Lott and Trent Whiddon in the all-time list.

Tying on 13.58% of the vote are…

My word! How the mighty have fallen!

I'm finally here on time for once!

CLAUDIA FRAGAPANE & AJ PRITCHARD and ED BALLS & KATYA JONES!

Also through on 10.61% of the Our Way vote are…

LOUISE REDKNAPP & KEVIN CLIFTON!

A slightly sadder note for our next couple as they received the fewest votes, just 7.67% of them, and is in the bottom two…

Of all four series of Our Way, this series probably has the closest correlation to the Strictly results with Lesley, Daisy, Laura and Ore all coinciding (or just about) with a bottom-two appearance on the actual thing.

It’s better news for our next couple who received 10.37% of the vote…

ROBERT RINDER & OKSANA PLATERO!

Also through on the strength of 10.12% of the vote are…

this voting is so close where it is too hard to predict!

Of course the couple I ranked top comes bottom with the votes.

DANNY MAC & OTI MABUSE!

That leaves us with the two couples who made up last weekend’s Our Way bottom two. Ore Oduba & Joanne Clifton, Daisy Lowe & Aljaž Škorjanec.

The couple in the bottom two with Laura & Giovanni, having received 7.90% of the vote is…

Well would you look at that. The couples in the bottom two make up the Our Way bottom two. Will the outcome be the same though?

Daisy and Aljaž are safe with 11.11%.

Same where I put Ore at the top of my votes and he still ends up bottom!

As we are in the unusual position of having the bottom two match up, I might encourage you to base your vote on the bottom two.

I will vote first as I usually do…and I am voting to save Ore and Joanne. Although both dances suffered from elements that were engineered to cover up the weaknesses of the celebrities, I did feel Ore and Joanne had slightly more flow and fludity in their routine.

ROSS, who will you be saving?

You also each had the opposite couple fairly low down on your votes, so it all evens out!

While we wait for Ross, ASH can you state who you'd like to save and why?

To be honest, likeability or favourites aside, I would think Ore would dance all over Laura in a dance off but actually it was a lot closer than I expected.

I actually thought Ore was worse in the dance off than the main show. And when Laura began her dance off routine she showed signs of improvement. However it didn't last long as I think despite both having flaws it was clear that Ore was the more competent of the two. Although I think a lot of that was down to Gio's choreography as well as Laura's dance ability. But fair is fair and I have to save Ore & Joanne based on tonight's dance off