The real story here, of course, is Claudia and AJ who sweep to the top of the leaderboard with a much-coveted Our Way perfect score and an improvement in their position with the Cha Cha Cha-llenge. The bottom of the leaderboard is looking much as would be expected.


Please rank the couples from 1-6 (1 for least favourite, 6 for favourite) and PM to me for 8.30pm tomorrow.

Yayy the show looks fantastic! Thank you for letting me fill in last minute, Izzie.

OMG YAYY @ Our Way giving Claudia/AJ a perfect 40 - that they most certainly deserved. Nice @ this being the 6th perfect score in Our Way history too.

I’m good and happy with the Cha-Cha Challenge results stats there too. Ed, Judge Rinder and Danny were the easiest ones for me to rank. I did struggle with Claudia/Louise/Ore’s spots but I have no complaints where they came in, even though I did rank Ore over Louise. But much better than the real show's CCC.


Yesss totally agree with you on the Charleston. That was the first 10-worthy dance of this series for me. I thought they didn't get 10's for it because it was too soon into the competition. But since they still haven't gotten 10's, I don't know.

You are good at judging.

So glad these judges were paying attention. Can you take over from Len next series?

The reign of the underdog males well and truly came to an end last night as Robert Rinder and Ed Balls followed Greg into the bottom two. Ed and Katya's time came to an end as the curse of being labelled 'the people's champion' hit. Are they set to face their second elimination tonight?

Topping the vote with 23.28% are...

CLAUDIA FRAGAPANE & AJ PRITCHARD!

Their first time topping the vote this series (and the first woman to do so), coming off the back of their very impressive perfect score!

It's less joyful news for our next couple though as they received 11.64% giving them the fewest votes...

ED BALLS & KATYA JONES

I think we all know where this is going.

The next couple is safe with 15.87% of the vote...

LOUISE REDKNAPP & KEVIN CLIFTON!

Safely through with 21.70% of the vote is...

DANNY MAC & OTI MABUSE!

Which leaves us with the other two men of the series: Ore Oduba and Robert Rinder.

The second couple in the bottom two with 12.17% of the vote is...

ORE ODUBA & JOANNE CLIFTON

It pains me to know that this outcome will just keep rolling on until the end of the series.

Robert and Oksana are safe with 15.34%.

You got to be kidding me! Robert Rinder should be in that bottom 2 and not Ore!

Really just a formality, but here we go.

ANDREW, who are you saving and why?

Would you like to vote while we wait?

(Although I can probably guess.)

This is such a no brainier where we have a dancer which can serious win this competition while the other has run past his due date!

The couple I am saving is Ore Oduba and Joanne Clifton

Thanks Ryan.

I can reveal that Wally voted in advance to save Ore and Joanne, giving them a two-vote lead.

Nicolas, who are you saving?

Is there anybody online and reading who'd like to chuck a vote in?

I'll end this misery and save Ore and Joanne.

I'd also have chucked a vote in to save Ore because let's face it, he's just much better.

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6. Ed Balls and Katya Jones (/Ed Balls and Katya Jones)
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)

Poor Ore in the Our Way dance off again.

At least Claudia got the recognition she deserves!

I voted Ore top in the hope we'd get a bit of variety! Must have been through the floor in everybody else's votes!

He was third from the bottom in mine.

I think you can guess who were my bottom 2.

Claudia & Danny? You swine!

Of course not, it was Ed and Judge Rinder!