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Last week’s three-way dance-off sent Lawrence and Jowita home. They danced again alongside Jaime and Carlos and Bethany and Nancy, but the judges had a different job this time: name the couple they wanted to send home. All four picked Lawrence and Jowita. I’m still not sure the extra couple added much beyond making another two people do it all again. This week Jaime didn’t dance at all. She tore an abdominal muscle in rehearsals and was advised to rest, so she and Carlos have a one-week bye. Hopefully she’ll be back next Saturday. As I was out on Saturday evening, I spent a rare night away from Strictly and left the group to hold the fort.  Before watching on Sunday morning, I’d already seen a couple of Strictly commentary videos on my Saturday night TikTok doomscroll saying the show felt flat. I wondered whether it might feel different watching it all the way through. It didn’t, really. Josh said a different couple had topped the leaderboard each week and that the competition was ...

The scariest thing Strictly could have done for Halloween would have been to make everyone dance a Rumba. Thankfully, we were spared that particular horror, although a three-way dance-off feels like production having a bloody good go.   Our Facebook group has a long-running Neil joke, to the extent that he features in one of the questions you answer to join. Halloween production could save a fortune on special effects by just flashing up that question instead of Neil hovering in the background and Neil doing the socials...  First, last week’s unfinished business. I wasn’t particularly surprised that Shaun left, despite how hard he was trying. The gap between him and the others was getting wider. However, Jaime being back in the dance-off was more worrying, although her leaderboard position hadn’t helped. As for Shirley voting to save Shaun… I would love two minutes inside that woman’s brain. Onto Halloween, where everyone had apparently received slightly different instruc...