yeah hope Izzie gets better fast

ORE ODUBA & JOANNE CLIFTON

No stranger to the Our Way bottom two they find themselves here once again.

Joining Greg and Claudia and safely through with 17.92% of your votes are...

DANNY MAC & OTI MABUSE!

No surprises given their performance at Blackpool this weekend and the first perfect score of the series.

Also avoiding tonight's bottom two, with 11.07% are…

ED BALLS & KATYA JONES!

That leaves us with just two couples: Louise & Kevin and Robert & Oksana

The couple in the bottom two with Ore and Joanne, with 10.42% of the vote, is…

ROBERT RINDER & OKSANA PLATERO

Which of course means that Louise and Kevin are safe with 14.98%.

JESS, who would you like to save and why?

Quite high percentage rates for everyone!

Poor Ore.

oohhh I got my decision ready

While we wait for Jess to make her decision...........

Ore Oduba and Joanne Clifton vs. Robert Rinder and Oksana Platero

JOHN, who would you like to save and why?

I love one of these couples and find they are making progress, the other I think have reached their full potential and have plattoed therefore I'm saving Rob& Oksana

Thanks John

That's gives Robert & Oksana an early lead

I can reveal that WALLY has already cast his vote and opts to save

So with one vote each.........

Ore Oduba and Joanne Clifton vs. Robert Rinder and Oksana Platero

DANNY, who would you like to save and why?

I'm afraid I must disagree with John. One couple I feel are a novelty act gone too far, who showed that entertainment trumps any attempt to do a proper Salsa. Whilst I didn't particularly like Ore & Joanne's VW, it was, at least, a palatable VW. So I'm saving Ore & Joanne

Thank you Danny

So with Ore & Joanne in the lead 2 to 1 the final vote is the decider.

I will leave leave it open for 5 minutes for either Jess or anybody else online to cast the final vote. If after this time nobody has voted I will step in at the suggestion of our host, Izzie

So, Jess or anybody else.....

Who would you like to save any why?

Ok as nobody has voted I am going to cast the final vote

I didn't rate either of these two this weekend. In fact these are the actual bottom two I'd have picked. (Yes even over Ed Balls) ((just))

But the couple I'd like to save would be Robert & Oksana because I really have never disliked a Viennese Waltz more on Strictly than I have Ore's

So that means it's two a piece. So I will now random.org which judge gets the deciding vote

Tonight's head judge as decided by random.org is Wally.

That means that the couple leaving us is...

If I was judging I would have saved Ore, as the dance off is meant to be based on dancing.

I can't say I'm overly surprised after that performance but at least Ore & Joanne will be relieved not to be eliminated again. Hopefully our host Izzie will return next weekend for the following show. Get well Izzie

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7. Robert Rinder and Oksana Platero (/Greg Rutherford and Natalie Lowe)
8. Ed Balls and Katya Jones (/Daisy Lowe and Aljaž Škorjanec)
9. Laura Whitmore and Giovanni Pernice (/Laura Whitmore and Giovanni Pernice)
10. Ore Oduba and Joanne Clifton (/Anastacia and Brendan Cole)
11. Ed Balls and Katya Jones (/Lesley Joseph and Anton Du Beke)
12. Naga Munchetty and Pasha Kovalev (/Naga Munchetty and Pasha Kovalev)
- Will Young and Karen Clifton (Withdrawal)
14. Naga Munchetty and Pasha Kovalev (/Tameka Empson and Gorka Márquez)
15. Melvin O'Doom and Janette Manrara (/Melvin O'Doom and Janette Manrara)

Very well covered, Ash! It's like you've hosted a major forum series before!

Get well soon Izz!

Just to say, because I've completely missed it, get well soon Izz! A brilliant job was done by your stand-in Ash, but we await your return. <3

You think?

Thanks Danny

And Ross

Going to be tough from now on with just 6 left

Well done for covering for Izzie, Ash.

Thank you to Ash for doing an utterly brilliant job hosting this and doing me a massive favour.





Thanks all. Already feeling a little better.


There's nothing to suggest that Ash and John didn't vote on the dancing. They both justified their decisions and called it as they saw it.