This might work or might not...

Here's a thread for any interesting facts, stats or corrections about the show.

Just to clear up what Claudia said on ITT last night, the highest score for a male rhumba is not 27. Colin and Erin scored 36 (9,9,9,9) in week 8 of series 3 dancing to "You're Beautiful", and repeated the feat in the final.

Darren Gough also beat 27 by scoring 30 in series 3 week 8 to "Beautiful" (8,7,8,7).

I think if you rhumba to a song with Beautiful in the title you'll do alright

The highest rhumba score is 38 (9,10,9,10) by Zoe and Ian to "Perfect Year" in last years Christmas Special. Natasha and Brendan got 36 (9,9,9,9) in regular competition.

Guess who has the lowest? Fiona Phillips with 11 (1,2,6,4)

And by the way, Camilla might have been excited on Saturday as her and Gethins 36 was her highest score in all five series she has competed in, beating the 35 she got last series with Ray Fearon.

dont forget she got a 37 with the foxtrot with James Martin in the Christmas Special that year

quizmike, great idea for a thread

anyone know the answer to this?

Claudia said Camilla had 2nd highest score for VW with Ray, who's got the highest?

Zoe and Ian received 36 for their VW.
Mark and Karen also received 36 pts for theirs.
also Kelly and Brendan on 36pts too :)
Ray and Camilla 35.

Zoe Ball, Mark Ramprakash, Gethin Jones and Kelly Brook (all receiving 36/40),

Oops...thanks for pointing that out Mrs F! I should have said "in regular competition"!

as I am unable to remain serious for very long, I'm more interested in the stats for

- average number of glasses of wine consumed per SCD show
- average number of crisps/dips/other assorted nibbles
- nos of times per show you imitate Tess' northern accent by calling the couples "cooples"
- nos of times you say "but I thought that was great" when the judges do their comments
- nos of times your beloved oH says "oh for godsake not this...god I hate this, I never watch it... it's rubbish.....hmmm well I thought Alesha was much better last week"

soz to be non serious QM

4 for me, only because I tend to keel over after 4 and I wouldn't see who was dancing what.

About 10 chocs. Now that's willpower.

Too many to count but I think I mimic Tess Mispronunciation about once every 6 minutes.

Usually twice in a show. I agree with them most of the time....weirdly.

Thankfully never.

Can I have a choc?

- average number of times you stick your fingers in your ears and shout "la la la" when someone starts telling a joke.

- number of minutes it takes you to figure out that when Tess says "sulzuh" she means salsa...

(Almost 30 in my case, I'm ashamed to say!)

I love that I'm not the only person who does this!

_ glasses of wine - none, bottles of baileys - can't remember. I have Alcohol related amnesia

- loads, to soak up the baileys - at least i think so, i can't really remember that either!

- never - husband from similar area, and besides, everyone sounds the same after a few baileys

-Husband loves it! (which is another reason I don't make any tess comments - he's there and he'd sulk bigtime!!)

Ive got a question.
In all the series of Strictly which dances have scored at least one 10?
I know pre finale last year Mark got 10s for his AT and Louisa got a 10 for her jive. Did Emma bunton get any 10s?

From Wikipedia:

Only on four occasions has a perfect forty out of forty been awarded:

40/40: Jill Halfpenny and Darren Bennett; Jive; 11/12/2004 (Series 2 Final)
40/40: Darren Gough and Lilia Kopylova; Quickstep; 24/12/2005 (2005 Christmas Special)
40/40: Mark Ramprakash and Karen Hardy; Salsa; 23/12/06 (Series 4 Final)
40/40: Colin Jackson and Erin Boag; Quickstep; 25/12/2006 (2006 Christmas Special)

On a further two occasions, couples have received 39; in both cases they received a 9 from Craig Revel Horwood and 10's from all other judges:

39/40: Colin Jackson and Erin Boag; Quickstep; 17/12/2005 (Series 3 Final)
39/40: Mark Ramprakash and Karen Hardy; Argentine Tango; 16/12/2006 (Series 4 Semi-Final

In addition to the four perfect scores listed above, judges have awarded perfect tens on a number of other occasions:


Series One
Week Five: Natasha Kaplinsky/Brendan Cole from Arlene Phillips for the Samba

Series Two
Week Seven: Jill Halfpenny/Darren Bennett from Arlene Phillips for the Paso Doble.
Final: Denise Lewis/Ian Waite from Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli for the Quickstep.

Series Three
Week Six: Zoe Ball/Ian Waite from Bruno Tonioli for the Quickstep
Week Seven: Zoe Ball/Ian Waite from Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli for the Tango
Week Eight: Colin Jackson/Erin Boag from Arlene Phillips for the American Smooth
Week Nine: Colin Jackson/Erin Boag from Len Goodman for the Waltz
Final: Darren Gough/Lilia Kopylova from Len Goodman for the Foxtrot
Final: Colin Jackson/Erin Boag from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Quickstep
Final: Zoe Ball/Ian Waite from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Samba
Final: Zoe Ball/Ian Waite from Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli for the Tango
Christmas Special: James Martin/Camilla Dallerup from Arlene Phillips and Len Goodman for the Foxtrot
Christmas Special: Zoe Ball/Ian Waite from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Foxtrot

Series Four
Week Three: Louisa Lytton/Vincent Simone from Bruno Tonioli for the Jive
Week Seven: Matt Dawson/Lilia Kopylova from Len Goodman for the Waltz
Week Nine: Emma Bunton/Darren Bennett from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Waltz
Week Nine: Emma Bunton/Darren Bennett from Bruno Tonioli for the Paso Doble
Week Eleven: Mark Ramprakash/Karen Hardy from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Argentine Tango
Final: Matt Dawson/Lilia Kopylova from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Waltz
Christmas Special: Zoe Ball/Ian Waite from Len Goodman and Arlene Phillips for the Rumba
Christmas Special: Matt Dawson/Lilia Kopylova from Len Goodman for the Waltz

Series Five
Kelly Brook/Brendan Cole from Bruno Tonioli for the American Smooth: Week 4
John Barnes/Nicole Cutler from Len Goodman for the Salsa: Week 6

What it took to win:
name the average judges' score per dance (through the series), for each of 4 past SCD winners. Answers inside spoilers.

SCD1 Natasha and Brendan

SCD2 Jill and Darren

SCD3 Darren Gough & Lilia

SCD4 Mark and Karen

From that Craig has only ever given a 10 in the final or the xmas special !

But the highest average score isn't one of those - it's Zoe & Ian.

You might be interested in the highest average scores so far - doesn't include series 5

Zoe & Ian 34.92
Emma & Darren 34.00
Jill & Darren 33.73
Colin & Erin 33.69
Mark & Karen 33.50
Natasha & Brendan 32.83
Denise & Ian 32.64
Louisa & Vincent 31.64
Darren & Lilia 31.23
Matt & Lilia 30.81

Your choice.
Do you want to be world record holder or Olympic gold medalist?

THanks pasodabble.
Looking at that i would agree with Craigs 10s except i would have given Mark and Karen one for there argentine tango.

I absolutely agree. Their Argentine Tango remains my all time favourite.

Matt got a 10 for his waltz

I belive Emma got a 10 for her paso

And 2 10s for her Waltz

No-one has ever had a ten for either Cha Cha Cha or Viennese Waltz!

Although it IS a hard dance, especially stamina wise, I've never expected a 10 for a VW as it's the most limited choreographically and don't think it's something that can be pushed for a 10 artistically.

Cha Cha Cha.....don't know why.

Sorry made a mistake.