Karen has never held a world championship title.

Paul, Matthew & Nicole - amateur Latin champions.

Hanna - professional Exhibition champion.

Hazel - professional Standard champion.

Kylie - amateur Standard champion.

Vincent & Flavia - professional Argentine Tango champions.

Seven out of eight- not bad! Now that you say that I had heard Karen didn't have a world title... World Masters is something different isn't it? All very confusing!

Yeah, world masters is a much smaller competition than the main five.

In recent years, it's got even smaller still. I think because it's so late in the year a lot of competitors choose to miss it nowadays.

Not a strange fact exactly but isn't it weird how many truly awful dancers have been given to that group?
Siobhan Hayes, Diamuid Gavin, Nicholas Owen, Christopher Parker, Quentin Wilson, Jimmy Tarbuck... You'd think the BBC would be angling to keep their world champions in the competition as long as possible, but apparently not!

I think every competitor gets a fair chance. Aren't they generally allocated their partner by height?

It's on height, location and personality I think- the luck of the draw in the end. But the world champions do seem to have had disproportionate bad luck!

Alysha Dixon was asked that on Loose Women today and she said Height was the deciding factor .
She also said Matt was very " soft " and gentle .

Another sort of strange fact- ranking the celebs in order of their average score... not the order you might expect:

1 Zoe Ball 35.33
2 Colin Jackson 34.20
3 Emma Bunton 34.14
4 Jill Halfpenny 33.92
5 Mark Ramprakash 33.65
6= Natasha Kaplinsky 33.00
6= Denise Lewis 33.00
8 Louisa Lytton 32.00
9 Darren Gough 31.86
10 Matt Dawson 31.18

I'm surprised The Sweeney didn't rank amongst them!

Thanks for that katie - fascinating and revealing list, and bears out the feelings of viewers that Zoe and Emma were consistently overmarked. I read your previous stats about a 38 for Zoe's Samba - that was so not a 38 performance, however don't wish to go off topic.

I think Claire is just outside the top ten, with an average score of 30.

This is all from Raphael's website, I'm assuming it's accurate.

I am very surprised that they are both ranked above Jill Halfpenny in terms of average scores.

Ah, the halcyon days of series 2, when the judges gave scores that actually meant something and 10's were properly earned....

So true!

Amen to that!

When I look at the judges' marking of Jill's latin dances it seems a bit miserly though! Eight for her jive the first time round?
And compared to DWTS the judges are still quite restrained about giving tens.

So true, in the last few weeks of DWTS 4 I thought the judges had thrown out the 1-8 paddles and only had one 9 to share between them.

Find this shocking - don't know why - knew some of the celebs from last 2 years were consistently over-marked.

They've changed their marking now. They are a lot more generous than in series two, which is why Jill and Denise are so low down.

Aww, my girl doesn't score badly, does she?! I thought she would be lower down to be honest.

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In series 4 between week 3 (first combined men and women week) and week 8 (the last single dance show) the scores of the eliminated couple were...

27,26,25,26,26,25

So anyone scoring mid twenties this year had better start to worry!

Heh, that's some illuminating factoid!

Natasha and Darren were the first competitors to dance in their respective series and both did the chach...... not sure about Jill & Mark

Think they were both last to dance.

Craig said something along the lines of "finally, someone who can move around the floor" after Mark danced the final cha cha of the night last series.

(I'm not super sad for knowing that, honest ~ i just have a freakishly photographic memory!)

Did you know? Interesting fashion facts from Series 4

The most common dress colour was pink (14)

The most common ballroom dress colour was red (9).

The most common latin dress colours were black and blue(7)

More (interesting) facts about series 4.

Arlene likes men!

Craig and Bruno gave higher average marks to celebrity women.
Arlene and Len gave higher average marks to men.

The judges have their favourite dances (based on average scores).

Craig
- favourite - Quickstep
- least favourite - Jive

Arlene
- favourite - Viennese Waltz
- least favourite - Rumba

Len
- favourite - Samba
- least favourite - Rumba

Bruno
- favourite - American Smooth
- least favourite - Rumba