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Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom

Ballroom dance

Ballroom dance refers to a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both social dance and ballroom dance#competitive dancing around the globe. Its performance dance and entertainment aspects are also widely enjoyed on Theater, in film, and on television....
and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing
Come Dancing

Come Dancing was a BBC TV ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off from 1949 to 1998, becoming one of television's longest-running shows....
, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom
Strictly Ballroom

Strictly Ballroom is a 1992 in film Cinema of Australia romantic comedy directed by Baz Luhrmann and based on a 1986 play by Luhrmann and Andrew Bovell....
. The format has been exported to 30 other countries (see Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars is the name of a group of international television series based on the format of the United Kingdom series Strictly Come Dancing, distributed by BBC Worldwide the commercial arm of the BBC....
), and has also inspired a modern-dance themed spin-off Strictly Dance Fever
Strictly Dance Fever

Strictly Dance Fever was a Great Britain television programme, broadcast on BBC One on Saturday evenings. It was an amateur dance talent competition, hosted by Graham Norton, which ran during Spring 2005 and Spring 2006....
.

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Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom

Ballroom dance

BBC One

BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC . It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular public television service with a high level of ....
since 2004. A sixth series finished in December 2008, and there have been five stand-alone Christmas Specials - 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Series four was also shown as part of the BBC's line-up on its trial High Definition channel, BBC HD

BBC HD

BBC HD is a high-definition television channel provided by the BBC. The service was initially run as a trial from 15 May 2006 until becoming a full service on 1 December 2007....
.

The final of the fourth and fifth series in December 2006 and December 2007 respectively attracted audiences of over 12 million viewers , while the 2008 final had 13 million viewers.

Format

The show pairs a number of celebrities with professional ballroom dancers who each week compete against each other in a competition to impress a panel of judges and the viewing public in order to survive potential elimination. Through a telephone poll, viewers vote who they would like to stay, the results of the poll being combined with the ranking of the panel of judges. For example, with four contestants left, the judges' favourite would receive four points, second favourite three points, and so on, and similarly with the viewers' rankings. The profits from the telephone lines were donated to Sport Relief

Sport Relief

Sport Relief is a biennial charity event from Comic Relief , in association with BBC Sport, which brings together the worlds of sport and entertainment to raise money to help vulnerable people in both the UK and the world's poorest countries....
in series 1, and to Children in Need

Children in Need

File:BBC Children in Need.svgBBC Children in Need is an annual United Kingdom charitable organization appeal organised by the BBC. Since 1980 it has raised over ?500 million....
from series 2 to 5.

The show is broadcast live on BBC One on Saturday evenings, and it is presented by Bruce Forsyth

Bruce Forsyth

'Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson' Order of the British Empire is a British people BAFTA award-winning showman and entertainer, who achieved celebrity status on the series Sunday Night at the London Palladium, and became a household name in the UK, going on to present the television series The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right, ...
and Tess Daly

Tess Daly

Helen Elizabeth Tess Daly , is a British television presenter, and is married to the presenter Vernon Kay....
. For some of the second series, Natasha Kaplinsky

Natasha Kaplinsky

Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky is an England News presenter, currently employed by Channel Five....
stood in temporarily for Tess Daly while she took maternity leave. The judging panel consists of Bruno Tonioli

Bruno Tonioli

Arlene Phillips

Arlene Phillips Order of the British Empire is an United Kingdom choreographer, talent scout and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment....
, Len Goodman

Len Goodman

Leonard Gordon "Len" Goodman is a United Kingdom professional dance judge and teacher and former dancer. He runs a ballroom dancing and Latin dancing school in Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom....
and Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian dancing, choreography, and theatre director in the United Kingdom....
. Goodman and Tonioli commute weekly between Hollywood and London to judge both the American and British versions of the show simultaneously. Each judge gives the performance a mark out of ten, giving an overall total out of forty. The voice-over announcer is Alan Dedicoat

Alan Dedicoat

Alan "Deadly" Dedicoat is probably best known as the "Voice of the Balls" on the National Lottery programmes on BBC One. He also reads the news on BBC Radio 2's weekday breakfast programme, Wake Up to Wogan....
. During series four, an hour long highlight show was shown on Sundays at 7pm on BBC Two, and during series five, the results show moved to Sunday evenings, although it is filmed on Saturday and then broadcast "as live" each Sunday.

The singers on the show are Priscilla Jones Campbell, Hayley Sanderson

Hayley Sanderson

Hayley Sanderson is a London-based singer who rose to fame with the release of her debut single Something in the Air . The song was originally a #1 hit in the summer of 1969 for Thunderclap Newman, written by the band's drummer and vocalist Speedy Keen and produced by The Who guitarist Pete Townshend....
, Tommy Blaize , Lance Ellington and Andrea Grant

Andrea Grant

Andrea Grant is a Canadian-born poet, pin-up model, comic book writer, and editor based in New York City. She is the sole proprietor of Copious Amounts Press, a small press located in the East Village....
. The music director

Music director

A music director is a profession in different fields....
is David Arch. Lance Ellington and Tommy Blaize have been part of the Strictly since its beginning. In Series 3 Andrea Grant joined the singing team. David Arch and Priscilla Jones Campbell joined in the fourth series, and Hayley Sanderson in the fifth.

The show is broadcast from a specially constructed set at the BBC Television Centre

BBC Television Centre

BBC Television Centre in West London, sometimes abbreviated to TVC, TC or TV Centre, is the headquarters of BBC Television. The greater part of the BBC's television output comes from here, as well as, in more recent years, that of BBC Radio 5 Live and, since 1998, that of most of the corporation's national BBC News service....
. However, in the first two series, shows were also filmed at the Tower Ballroom

Blackpool Tower

Blackpool Tower is a tourist attraction in Blackpool, Lancashire in England which was opened to the public on 14 May 1894. . Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris it rises to 158m ....
in Blackpool

Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Lying along the coast of the Irish Sea, it has a population of 142,900, making it the North West England#Important cities and towns settlement in North West England behind Manchester, Liverpool and Warrington....
, where the original Come Dancing series was filmed in the 1970s.

In the second series, two shows were filmed at the Tower Ballroom, show five and the Grand Final which was broadcast live on 11 December 2004. In 2005 though the BBC announced that they would not be returning to the venue for the third series due to "logistical problems". In October 2008, Craig Revel Horwood called for the series to return to the Tower Ballroom saying, "the atmosphere was electric. It's huge and has so much history. The Tower Ballroom puts a lot of pressure on the professionals and the celebrities to perform to the best of their potential. What a wonderful place to go live to 12 million people. We have got to get the BBC to bring Strictly Come Dancing back to Blackpool."

Coaching

As of series four, coaches are Jaclyn Spencer and Chris Marques (aka Cuban Groove) for Salsa

Salsa (dance)

Salsa is a dance for Salsa music created by Spanish language-speaking people from the Caribbean and their immigrant communities in the US. Salsa dancing mixes African and European dance influences through the music and dance fusions that are the roots of Salsa: Cuban SonGuaguanc?, Spanish Rumba, Boogaloo, Pachanga, Guaracha, Plena, Bomba, ....
and Mambo

Mambo (dance)

Mambo is a Latin dance of Cuban origin that corresponds to mambo music.Mambo music was invented in 1930s Havana by Cachao and his contemporaries and made popular around the world by Perez Prado and Beny Mor?....
, and Jenny Thomas and Ryan Francois for Swing

Swing (dance)

The term "swing dance" commonly refers to a group of dances that developed concurrently with the swing music style of jazz music in the 1920s, '30s and '40s....
and Jive

Jive (dance)

In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance....
. The Argentine Tango

Argentine tango

Argentine tango may refer to:*Argentine tango as a sub-style of Tango .*Tango music as a musical style....
coaches in Series three were Flavia Cacace

Flavia Cacace

Flavia Cacace is an English professional dancer. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone....
and Vincent Simone

Vincent Simone

Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy but moved to United Kingdom when he was 17 and has since lived in Guildford, Surrey. He was born into a family of professional dancers....
, both of whom have subsequently competed in the show.

Dance Off

From Series 5, a new system was introduced called the Dance Off. The Dance Off is performed by the two couples with the lowest scores following the judges' scores and public vote. After performing their dance again, the judges are asked one-by-one who they would like to save, and the couple with the most votes remains in the competition. If there is a tie, head judge Len Goodman has the deciding vote.

The results show is recorded on the Saturday night directly after the live show and incorporates the result of the viewers' votes which are completed by 21:30. This was confirmed by the official BBC website in 2008:

"The Sunday show is recorded on Saturday night but no element involving the results of the vote will start recording until after lines are closed and votes counted and verified."

Throughout the results show the presenters refer to 'last night' in reference to the main show, due to the air date of the Sunday programme, and Tess Daly's dress is changed to present an illusion of a live broadcast.

Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two

During the run of Strictly Come Dancing, Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two airs each week night on BBC Two

BBC Two

BBC Two is the second major terrestrial television channel of the BBC, aimed at a wide range of subject matter and interests, and specialising in intelligent yet popular programme genres....
, hosted by Claudia Winkleman

Claudia Winkleman

Claudia Anne I. Winkleman is a British television presenter, radio personality and journalist. She is the daughter of Eve Pollard, former editor of the Daily Express#Sunday Express and Barry Winkleman, a former publisher of Times Atlas of the World....
. It features reviews of the performances during the previous Saturday show, and interviews with and training footage of the couples preparing for the next show. The judges and other celebrities also provide their opinions on how the couples are doing. It Takes Two replaces Strictly Come Dancing on Three, hosted by Justin Lee Collins

Justin Lee Collins

Justin Lee Collins is a Britain comedian, television presenter, radio presenter and amateur darts player from Bristol, often known as 'JLC'....
, which ran on BBC Three

BBC Three

BBC Three is a television channel from the BBC broadcasting via digital cable, Freeview , IPTV and Satellite television platforms. The channel is described by the BBC as an outlet for 'New drama, talent, comedy, films, and accessible news'....
during the first series. BBC Two Scotland

BBC Two Scotland

BBC Two Scotland is a television Television station operated by BBC Scotland. It is broadcast via analogue and digital television and is the sister Scottish channel of BBC One Scotland....
airs the programme on four nights only, running their own Gaelic-language programming on Thursdays instead.

Main series

Series	Première date	Winning couple	Runner-up couple	Other contestants (in order of elimination)	Number of couples
1	15 May 2004	Natasha Kaplinsky & Brendan Cole	Christopher Parker & Hanna Karttunen	Jason Wood, David Dickinson, Verona Joseph, Claire Sweeney, Martin Offiah, Lesley Garrett.	8
2	23 October 2004	Jill Halfpenny & Darren Bennett	Denise Lewis & Ian Waite	Quentin Wilson, Carol Vorderman, Esther Rantzen, Diarmuid Gavin, Sarah Manners, Roger Black, Aled Jones, Julian Clary.	10
3	15 October 2005	Darren Gough & Lilia Kopylova	Colin Jackson & Erin Boag	Siobhan Hayes, Jaye Jacobs, Gloria Hunniford, Fiona Philips, Dennis Taylor, Will Thorp, Bill Turnbull, Patsy Palmer, James Martin, Zoe Ball.	12
4 Strictly Come Dancing (Series 4) The fourth series of *Strictly Come Dancing* started on 7 October 2006 and ended on 23 December 2006. It was presented by Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly, and the winner was Mark Ramprakash along with his dancing partner Karen Hardy....	7 October 2006	Mark Ramprakash & Karen Hardy	Matt Dawson & Lilia Kopylova	Nicolas Owen, Mica Paris, Jimmy Tarbuck (Withdrew), DJ Spoony, Georgina Bouzova, Jan Ravens, Ray Fearon, Peter Schmeichel, Claire King, Carol Smillie, Louisa Lytton, Emma Bunton.	14
5 Strictly Come Dancing (Series 5) The fifth series of *Strictly Come Dancing* began on BBC One on 29 September 2007, with Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly returning as presenters....	6 October 2007	Alesha Dixon & Matthew Cutler	Matt Di Angelo & Flavia Cacace	Brian Capron, Stephanie Beecham, Willie Thorne, Gabby Logan, Dominic Littlewood, Penny Lancaster-Stewart, Kate Garraway, John Barnes, Kelly Brook (Withdrew), Kenny Logan, Letitia Dean, Gethin Jones.	14
6 Strictly Come Dancing (Series 6) The sixth series of *Strictly Come Dancing* began on BBC One on 20 September 2008, with Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly returning as presenters, and Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli returning as judges....	20 September 2008	Tom Chambers & Camilla Dallerup	Rachel Stevens & Vincent Simone	Phil Daniels, Gillian Taylforth, Gary Rhodes, Jessie Wallace, Don Warrington, Mark Foster, Andrew Castle, Heather Small, Cherie Lunghi, John Sergeant (Withdrew), Jodie Kidd, Christine Bleakley, Austin Healey, Lisa Snowdon.	16

Series 1

15 May to 3 July 2004, in order of elimination

Celebrity	Professional	Voted out
Jason Wood Jason Wood (comedian) Jason Wood is a British comedian.In 2004 he took part in the first series of Strictly Come Dancing. Partnered with professional dancer Kylie Jones, they were the first to leave the competition.... (Comedian)	Kylie Jones Kylie Jones Kylie Jones is a professional dancer.She has been Twice World, Open British, & UK Amateur Ballroom Champion, European & International Amateur Ballroom Champion since she has been training ....	Week 2
David Dickinson David Dickinson David Dickinson is an England antiques expert and television presenter of Armenians ancestry.... (Bargain Hunt Bargain Hunt *Bargain Hunt* is a daytime television programme on BBC One that has aired since 13 March 2000 in a daytime version and from 22 August 2002 to 13 November 2004 in a primetime version.... presenter)	Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....	Week 3
Verona Joseph Verona Joseph Verona Joseph is a United Kingdom actress. She played the role of Jess Griffin in the BBC drama series, Holby City between 2002 and 2006 but made several reapperances during 2006 and 2007.... (Former Holby City Holby City *Holby City, styled as HOLBY CI+Y*, is a BAFTA award winning medical drama television serial transmitted by BBC One in the United Kingdom.... Star)	Paul Killick Paul Killick Paul Killick is a dancer and has previously held the title of World Amateur Latin Champion 1993, dancing with Inga Hass. In 1994 Paul began dancing professionally with Oksana Forova....	Week 4
Claire Sweeney Claire Sweeney Claire Jane Sweeney is an England Actress, Singer and celebrity best known for playing the role of Lindsey Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside and her appearance on the first series of the Reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother.... (Actress/TV Presenter)	John Byrnes	Week 5
Martin Offiah Martin Offiah Martin "Chariots" Offiah Order of the British Empire is an English former rugby league and, briefly, rugby union footballer of the 1980s, 90s and 2000s.... (Former Rugby Player)	Erin Boag Erin Boag Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, taught by her father, Robert 'Robbie' Boag. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia, and she moved to London eighteen months later, when she was in her early twenties....	Week 6
Lesley Garrett Lesley Garrett Lesley Garrett Order of the British Empire is an England soprano, broadcaster and media personality.... (Singer)	Anton du Beke Anton du Beke Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer and television presenter. His dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003....	Week 7
Christopher Parker Christopher Parker Christopher Parker is an English actor and television presenter.... (Eastenders Actor)	Hanna Karttunen Hanna Karttunen Hanna Karttunen is a professional Latin dances and Exhibition dancer. She also trained in Ballet as a child, having a love of dance from a very early age....	Final (second place)
Natasha Kaplinsky Natasha Kaplinsky Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky is an England News presenter, currently employed by Channel Five.... (Newsreader)	Brendan Cole Brendan Cole Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin dance. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer....	Series winners

Judges' scoring summary

Bold scores indicate the highest for that week. Red indicates the lowest score. * indicates that this couple was in the bottom two.

Team	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8 Final
Natasha/Brendan	27	31	26*	35	37	31+36=67	36+35=71	36+31+35=102
Christopher/Hanna	19	23	19	28	15	22+15=37	21+16=37*	24+17+22=63
Lesley/Anton	29	27	29	30*	27*	34+26=60*	33+29=62*	Eliminated
Martin/Erin	25	21	21	24	22	24+24=48*	Eliminated
Claire/John	27	26	34	31	32*	Eliminated
Verona/Paul	27	24	24	24*	Eliminated
David/Camilla	16	21*	20*	Eliminated
Jason/Kylie	21	19*	Eliminated

Average chart

Rank by average	Place	Couple	Total	Number of dances	Average
1	1	Natasha & Brendan	396	12	33.0
2	5	Claire & John	150	5	30.0
3	3	Lesley & Anton	264	9	29.3
4	6	Verona & Paul	99	4	24.8
5	4	Martin & Erin	161	7	23.0
6	2	Christopher & Hanna	241	12	20.1
7	8	Jason & Kylie	40	2	20.0
8	7	David & Camilla	57	3	19.0

Dances performed

Team	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8 Final
Natasha & Brendan	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba	Tango, Rumba	Waltz, Paso Doble	Quickstep, Samba, Freestyle
Christopher & Hanna	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba	Waltz, Paso Doble	Tango, Rumba	Waltz, Jive, Freestyle
Lesley & Anton	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba	Foxtrot, Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep, Jive
Martin & Erin	Waltz	Rumba	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba	Quickstep, Cha-Cha-Cha
Claire & John	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba
Verona & Paul	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Paso Doble
David & Camilla	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Tango
Jason & Kylie	Waltz	Rumba

Eliminated Second place Winner

The dances performed during Series 1 were as follows:

Week 1 : Cha Cha Cha / Waltz
Week 2 : Quickstep / Rumba
Week 3 : Tango / Jive
Week 4 : Foxtrot / Paso Doble
Week 5 : Samba
Week 6 : 2 dances not yet tackled from previous weeks
Week 7 : 2 dances not yet tackled from previous weeks
Week 8 : Favourite Ballroom, Favourite Latin & Freestyle Dance

Highest and lowest scoring performances

The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows:

Dance	Best dancer(s)	Best score	Worst dancer(s)	Worst score
Cha Cha Cha Cha-cha-cha (dance) Cha-cha-cha is the name of a Latin American dance of Cuban origin. The name may also be spelled chachach?. It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorr?n in 1953....	Natasha Kaplinsky/Verona Joseph	27	David Dickinson	16
Jive Jive (dance) In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance....	Lesley Garrett	29	Christopher Parker	17
Rumba Rumba (dance) Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.First, it means Cuban event of African style, organically related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music....	Natasha Kaplinsky	36	Jason Wood	19
Paso doble Paso Doble Paso Doble or pasodoble is a lively style of dance to the Metre march -like pasodoble music. It actually originated in southern France , but is modeled after the sound, drama, and movement of the Spain bullfighting....	Natasha Kaplinsky	35	Christopher Parker	15
Samba Samba (ballroom) Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance of Brazilian origin in 2/4 time signature danced under the Samba music. However, there are three steps to every bar, making the Samba feel like a 3/4 timed dance....	Natasha Kaplinsky	37	Christopher Parker	15
Waltz Waltz The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....	Natasha Kaplinsky	36	Jason Wood	21
Quickstep Quickstep Quickstep is an Ballroom glossary#International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot . An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep would be Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing"....	Natasha Kaplinsky	36	David Dickinson	21
Foxtrot	Natasha Kaplinsky	35	Martin Offiah	24
Tango Tango (dance) Tango is a musical genre and its associated dance forms that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, and spread to the rest of the world soon after that....	Claire Sweeney	34	David Dickinson	20

Series 2

23 October to 11 December 2004, in order of elimination

Celebrity	Professional	Voted out
Quentin Willson Quentin Willson Quentin Willson is a British TV presenter and motoring expert, and perhaps most widely known as a presenter of the motoring programmes Top Gear , Britain's Worst Driver, and Fifth Gear....	Hazel Newberry Hazel Newberry Hazel Catherine Newberry MBE was three times undefeated world professional ballroom champion see Dancesport World Champions . Her professional ballroom partner was Christopher Hawkins....	Week 1
Carol Vorderman Carol Vorderman Carol Jean Vorderman Order of the British Empire is an English businesswoman and television presenter, best known for co-hosting the popular Channel 4 game show Countdown from its first show on 2 November 1982 until 12 December 2008....	Paul Killick Paul Killick Paul Killick is a dancer and has previously held the title of World Amateur Latin Champion 1993, dancing with Inga Hass. In 1994 Paul began dancing professionally with Oksana Forova....	Week 2
Esther Rantzen Esther Rantzen Esther Louise Rantzen Order of the British Empire is an England journalist and television presenter who is best known for her long stint in That's Life! and her child protection activities as founder of the charity ChildLine....	Anton du Beke Anton du Beke Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer and television presenter. His dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003....	Week 3
Diarmuid Gavin Diarmuid Gavin Diarmuid Gavin is an Irish garden designer and television personality, based in London. He is married to Justine Keane, daughter of the former Chief Justice of Ireland Ronan Keane and Terry Keane, and they have a daughter named Eppie born December 2004....	Nicole Cutler Nicole Cutler Nicole Cutler is a professional ballroom dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. She was born Nicole Westdyk in Durban, South Africa and after taking up ballet at the age of four, first tried out ballroom and Latin-American dancing at the age of twelve....	Week 4
Sarah Manners Sarah Manners Sarah Manners is a popular England actress best known for her work on United Kingdom television. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London....	Brendan Cole Brendan Cole Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin dance. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer....	Week 5
Roger Black Roger Black Roger Anthony Black Order of the British Empire is a retired United Kingdom Athletics who now works as a television presenter and motivational speaker....	Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....	Week 6
Aled Jones Aled Jones Aled Jones is a Wales singer and television/radio personality and broadcaster who first came to fame as a boy soprano. He is the only child of Nest and Derek Jones, was raised in the small Welsh-speaking community of Llandegfan, in Anglesey and attended Ysgol David Hughes....	Lilia Kopylova Lilia Kopylova Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....	Week 7
Julian Clary Julian Clary Julian Clary is an England comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre....	Erin Boag Erin Boag Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, taught by her father, Robert 'Robbie' Boag. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia, and she moved to London eighteen months later, when she was in her early twenties....	Final (third place)
Denise Lewis Denise Lewis Denise Lewis Order of the British Empire is a British athletics who specialises in the heptathlon. Her greatest triumph was winning the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics....	Ian Waite Ian Waite Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....	Final (second place)
Jill Halfpenny Jill Halfpenny Jill Halfpenny is an England actor.Halfpenny is possibly best known for her role as Kate in the United Kingdom TV drama EastEnders, from 2002-5....	Darren Bennett Darren Bennett (dancer) Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....	Series winners

Judges' scoring summary

Bold scores indicate the highest for that week. Red indicates the lowest score. * indicates they were in the bottom 2 couples.

Team	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8 Final
Jill/Darren	27	32	35	34	35	32+36=68	29+37=66	34+40=74
Denise/Ian	31	32	25*	30	32	34+33=67	35+36=71*	38+33=71
Julian/Erin	19	27	27	20	24*	28+27=55*	24+21=45	29+23=52
Aled/Lilia	29	27	32	25	30	29+27=56	27+30=57*	Eliminated
Roger/Camilla	25	22	25	29	23	22+19=41*	Eliminated
Sarah/Brendan	28	23	31	29*	23*	Eliminated
Diarmuid/Nicole	12	12	14	17*	Eliminated
Esther/Anton	24	16*	16*	Eliminated
Carol/Paul	22*	20*	Eliminated
Quentin/Hazel	8*	Eliminated

Average chart

Rank by average	Place	Couple	Total	Number of dances	Average
1	1	Jill & Darren	371	11	33.7
2	2	Denise & Ian	359	11	32.6
3	4	Aled & Lilia	256	9	28.4
4	6	Sarah & Brendan	134	5	26.8
5	3	Julian & Erin	269	11	24.5
6	5	Roger & Camilla	165	7	23.6
7	9	Carol & Paul	42	2	21.0
8	8	Esther & Anton	56	3	18.7
9	7	Diarmuid & Nicole	55	4	13.8
10	10	Quentin & Hazel	8	1	8.0

Dances performed

Team	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8 Final
Jill/Darren	Waltz	Rumba	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba	Quickstep, Cha-Cha-Cha	Tango, Paso Doble	Foxtrot, Jive
Denise/Ian	Waltz	Rumba	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba	Quickstep, Cha-Cha-Cha	Tango, Paso Doble	Quickstep, Samba
Julian/Erin	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba	Waltz, Rumba	Foxtrot, Jive	Quickstep, Samba
Aled/Lilia	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba	Waltz, Rumba	Tango, Paso Doble
Roger/Camilla	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba	Waltz, Rumba
Sarah/Brendan	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba
Diarmuid/Nicole	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Tango	Paso Doble
Esther/Anton	Waltz	Rumba	Tango
Carol/Paul	Waltz	Rumba
Quentin/Hazel	Cha-Cha-Cha

Eliminated Third place Second place Winner

The dances performed during Series 2 were as follows:

Week 1 : Cha Cha Cha / Waltz
Week 2 : Quickstep / Rumba
Week 3 : Tango / Jive
Week 4 : Foxtrot / Paso Doble
Week 5 : Samba
Week 6 : 2 dances not yet tackled from previous weeks
Week 7 : 2 dances not yet tackled from previous weeks
Week 8 : Favourite Ballroom & Favourite Latin

Highest and lowest scoring performances

The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows:

Dance	Best dancer(s)	Best score	Worst dancer(s)	Worst score
Cha Cha Cha Cha-cha-cha (dance) Cha-cha-cha is the name of a Latin American dance of Cuban origin. The name may also be spelled chachach?. It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorr?n in 1953....	Jill Halfpenny	36	Quentin Willson	8
Jive Jive (dance) In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance....	Jill Halfpenny	40	Julian Clary	21
Rumba Rumba (dance) Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.First, it means Cuban event of African style, organically related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music....	Jill Halfpenny/Denise Lewis	32	Esther Rantzen	16
Paso doble Paso Doble Paso Doble or pasodoble is a lively style of dance to the Metre march -like pasodoble music. It actually originated in southern France , but is modeled after the sound, drama, and movement of the Spain bullfighting....	Jill Halfpenny	37	Diarmuid Gavin	17
Samba Samba (ballroom) Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance of Brazilian origin in 2/4 time signature danced under the Samba music. However, there are three steps to every bar, making the Samba feel like a 3/4 timed dance....	Jill Halfpenny	35	Roger Black/Julian Clary/Sarah Manners	23
Waltz Waltz The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....	Denise Lewis	31	Carol Vorderman	22
Quickstep Quickstep Quickstep is an Ballroom glossary#International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot . An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep would be Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing"....	Denise Lewis	38	Diarmuid Gavin	12
Foxtrot	Jill Halfpenny	34	Julian Clary	24
Tango Tango (dance) Tango is a musical genre and its associated dance forms that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, and spread to the rest of the world soon after that....	Denise Lewis	35	Diarmuid Gavin	14

Series 3

15 October to 17 December 2005, in order of elimination

Celebrity	Professional	Voted out
Siobhan Hayes Siobhan Hayes Siobhan Hayes is an actress best known for her role as Abi Harper in the United Kingdom television series My Family.Hayes portrayed Abi Harper as a dimwitted and clumsy student in the British sitcom My Family, a role she has reprised since 2002 to 2008 when the character was written out of the programme....	Matthew Cutler Matthew Cutler Matthew David Cutler is an England dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He is a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing....	Week 1
Jaye Jacobs Jaye Jacobs Jaye Jacobs is a British actress.She is most famous for her role as comical and fun loving nurse Donna Jackson in the BBC medical drama series Holby City....	Andrew Cuerden Andrew Cuerden Andrew Cuerden is a Latin dancer. Born in Zimbabwe, and growing up in South Africa, Cuerden moved to England to further his dance career in 1996....	Week 2
Gloria Hunniford Gloria Hunniford Gloria Hunniford is a TV and radio presenter, and formerly a singer. She is the mother of Caron Keating who died of breast cancer in 2004....	Darren Bennett Darren Bennett (dancer) Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....	Week 3
Fiona Phillips Fiona Phillips Fiona Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and television presenter....	Brendan Cole Brendan Cole Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin dance. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer....	Week 4
Dennis Taylor Dennis Taylor Dennis Taylor is a retired snooker player, and current BBC snooker commentator. Taylor is well known for his sense of humour and his trademark over-sized glasses....	Izabela Hannah	Week 5
Will Thorp Will Thorp Will Thorp is an England actor. He studied at Bath College and joined Musical Youth Theatre Company at an early age. Thorp was also a member of the National Youth Theatre....	Hanna Haarala Hanna Haarala Hanna Haarala is a professional Latin dance. Haarala already had a successful career in ice skating, and eventually had to make the choice between them both....	Week 6
Bill Turnbull Bill Turnbull Bill Turnbull is an English people journalist and presenter, currently employed by the BBC and best known for presenting BBC Breakfast....	Karen Hardy Karen Hardy Karen Hardy , competed as a professional Latin American dancer, and is a former international, United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters Champion....	Week 7
Patsy Palmer Patsy Palmer Patsy Palmer is an England actor and television personality. Palmer made an early television appearance on the children's drama show Grange Hill, but is best-known for playing Bianca Jackson in the popular British television soap opera EastEnders....	Anton du Beke Anton du Beke Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer and television presenter. His dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003....	Week 8
James Martin James Martin (chef) James Martin , is an England celebrity chef who first appeared on television in 1996....	Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....	Week 9
Zoë Ball Zoë Ball Zo? Louise Ball is an England television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show and for her earlier work presenting 1990s kids show Live & Kicking....	Ian Waite Ian Waite Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....	Final (third place)
Colin Jackson Colin Jackson Colin Ray Jackson Order of the British Empire is a Welsh people former Sprint and hurdling Athletics of Jamaican, Jamaican Maroons, Taino, and Scottish people ancestry, who now works as a Sportscaster for athletics and television presenter predominantly for the BBC....	Erin Boag Erin Boag Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, taught by her father, Robert 'Robbie' Boag. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia, and she moved to London eighteen months later, when she was in her early twenties....	Final (second place)
Darren Gough Darren Gough Darren Gough is a retired England cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's all-time highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth most successful wicket...	Lilia Kopylova Lilia Kopylova Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....	Series winners

Over five million votes were cast, approximately three million of which were for the eventual champions, Darren Gough and Lilia Kopylova. Over ten and a half million viewers tuned in to the final show, and the whole series raised £1.5 million for Children in Need.

Judges' scoring summary

Bold scores indicate the highest for that week. Red indicates the lowest score. * indicates the couple was in the bottom two.

Team	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10 Final
Darren/Lilia	19	30	33	34	28	30	34	32+30=62	35+29=64	36+36=72
Colin/Erin	32	36	26	31	32	32	34	37+36=73	37+30=67	39+36=75
Zoe/Ian	35	32	29	36	35	36	38	36+32=68*	36+33=69*	38+38=76
James/Camilla	22	29	28	29	29	20	32	28+20=48	33+22=55*	Eliminated
Patsy/Anton	19	26	34	31	26	31*	24*	31+27=58*	Eliminated
Bill/Karen	29	23	20	25	27	17	25*	Eliminated
Will/Hanna	18*	29	25*	34	23*	28*	Eliminated
Dennis/Izabela	20	18	22	15*	23*	Eliminated
Fiona/Brendan	11	13	16	20*	Eliminated
Gloria/Darren	22	17*	19*	Eliminated
Jaye/Andrew	25	21*	Eliminated
Siobhan/Matthew	15*	Eliminated

Average chart

Rank by average	Place	Couple	Total	Number of dances	Average
1	3	Zoe & Ian	454	13	34.9
2	2	Colin & Erin	438	13	33.7
3	1	Darren & Lilia	406	13	31.2
4	5	Patsy & Anton	249	9	27.7
5	4	James & Camilla	292	11	26.5
6	7	Will & Hanna	157	6	26.2
7	6	Bill & Karen	166	7	23.7
8	11	Jaye & Andrew	46	2	23.0
9	8	Dennis & Izabela	98	5	19.6
10	10	Gloria & Darren	58	3	19.3
11	9	Fiona & Brendan	60	4	15.0
11	12	Siobhan & Matthew	15	1	15.0

Dances performed

Each couple performed one of two prescribed dances in each of the first five weeks. After that, the dances performed were as follows:

Week 6: One new dance from weeks 1-5; group salsa
Week 7: One new dance from weeks 1-5; group Argentine tango
Week 8: American smooth; one new dance from weeks 1-5
Week 9: Two new dances from weeks 1-5
Final: Favourite ballroom/Latin dances; freestyle show dance; group Viennese waltz

Team	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10 Final
Darren & Lilia	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Tango	Paso Doble	Viennese Waltz	Jive	Foxtrot	American Smooth, Rumba	Waltz, Samba	Foxtrot, Paso Doble
Colin & Erin	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Tango	Paso Doble	Samba	Foxtrot	Viennese Waltz	American Smooth, Rumba	Waltz, Jive	Quickstep, Rumba
Zoe & Ian	Waltz	Rumba	Jive	Foxtrot	Samba	Quickstep	Tango	American Smooth, Cha-Cha-Cha	Viennese Waltz, Paso Doble	Tango, Samba
James & Camilla	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Tango	Paso Doble	Viennese Waltz	Jive	Waltz	American Smooth, Samba	Foxtrot, Rumba
Patsy & Anton	Waltz	Rumba	Tango	Foxtrot	Samba	Quickstep	Cha-Cha-Cha	American Smooth, Jive
Bill & Karen	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Tango	Paso Doble	Viennese Waltz	Rumba	Waltz
Will & Hanna	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Viennese Waltz	Tango
Dennis & Izabela	Cha-Cha-Cha	Quickstep	Jive	Paso Doble	Samba
Fiona & Brendan	Waltz	Rumba	Jive	Foxtrot
Gloria & Darren	Waltz	Rumba	Jive
Jaye & Andrew	Waltz	Rumba
Siobhan & Matthew	Waltz

Eliminated Third place Second place Winner

Highest and lowest scoring performances

The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows:

Dance	Best dancer(s)	Best score	Worst dancer(s)	Worst score
Cha Cha Cha Cha-cha-cha (dance) Cha-cha-cha is the name of a Latin American dance of Cuban origin. The name may also be spelled chachach?. It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorr?n in 1953....	Zoe Ball/Colin Jackson	32	Will Thorp	18
Jive Jive (dance) In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance....	Darren Gough/Colin Jackson	30	Fiona Phillips	16
Rumba Rumba (dance) Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.First, it means Cuban event of African style, organically related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music....	Colin Jackson	36	Fiona Phillips	13
Paso doble Paso Doble Paso Doble or pasodoble is a lively style of dance to the Metre march -like pasodoble music. It actually originated in southern France , but is modeled after the sound, drama, and movement of the Spain bullfighting....	Darren Gough	36	Dennis Taylor	15
Samba Samba (ballroom) Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance of Brazilian origin in 2/4 time signature danced under the Samba music. However, there are three steps to every bar, making the Samba feel like a 3/4 timed dance....	Zoe Ball	38	James Martin	20
Waltz Waltz The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....	Colin Jackson	37	Fiona Phillips	11
Quickstep Quickstep Quickstep is an Ballroom glossary#International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot . An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep would be Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing"....	Colin Jackson	39	Dennis Taylor	18
Foxtrot	Zoe Ball/Darren Gough	36	Fiona Phillips	20
Tango Tango (dance) Tango is a musical genre and its associated dance forms that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, and spread to the rest of the world soon after that....	Zoe Ball	38	Bill Turnbull	20
Viennese Waltz Viennese Waltz Viennese Waltz is the genre of a ballroom dance. At least three different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in ballroom dancing, danced to the music of Viennese Waltz....	Zoe Ball	36	Will Thorp	23
American Smooth	Colin Jackson	37	James Martin	28

Series 4

The show ran from 7 October to 23 December 2006. Over 12 million votes were cast, raising £1.5 million for Children in Need. A peak of 13 million viewers tuned in to the final show of series four to see Mark and Karen crowned 2006 Strictly Come Dancing champions.

The couples in order of elimination:

Celebrity	Professional	Voted out
Nicholas Owen Nicholas Owen Nicholas David Arundel Owen is a British journalist and television presenter. He works for the BBC, presenting news on BBC News , the corporation's 24 hour rolling news channel, and BBC One....	Nicole Cutler Nicole Cutler Nicole Cutler is a professional ballroom dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. She was born Nicole Westdyk in Durban, South Africa and after taking up ballet at the age of four, first tried out ballroom and Latin-American dancing at the age of twelve....	Week 1
Jimmy Tarbuck Jimmy Tarbuck Jimmy Tarbuck Order of the British Empire is an English comedian, and the father of actress and television presenter Liza Tarbuck. He attended the same school as John Lennon and newscaster Peter Sissons....	Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace is an English professional dancer. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone....	Forced to withdraw for health reasons
Mica Paris Mica Paris Mica Paris is an England singer , radio and television presenter, and occasional actress. She abbreviated her forename to Micha before adopting its phonetic version as she moved further away from her gospel roots....	Ian Waite Ian Waite Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....	Week 2
DJ Spoony DJ Spoony DJ Spoony is the stage name of Johnathan Joseph who is a British disk jockey, and former BBC Radio 1 presenter.Spoony's career started on London Underground ....	Ola Jordan Ola Jordan Aleksandra "Ola" Jordan is a Latin dance specialist best known for her appearances on the United Kingdom TV show Strictly Come Dancing. She married her professional dance partner James Jordan in 2003....	Week 3
Georgina Bouzova Georgina Bouzova Georgina Bouzova, LLB, is an English television actress most famed for her former role as Ellen Zitek in the BBC One medical drama Casualty ....	James Jordan James Jordan (dancer) James Jordan is an England ballroom dancing. His dance partner is wife Ola Jordan, with whom he turned professional in 2000....	Week 4
Jan Ravens Jan Ravens Jan Ravens is an England actress and Impressionist , famous for her voices on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers ....	Anton du Beke Anton du Beke Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer and television presenter. His dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003....	Week 5
Ray Fearon Ray Fearon Fitzroy Raymond "Ray" Fearon is a United Kingdom actor who, despite his extensive work in the theatre, is probably still best known for playing garage mechanic Nathan_Harding#Nathan_Harding on ITV's long-running soap opera Coronation Street....	Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....	Week 6
Peter Schmeichel Peter Schmeichel Peter Boleslaw Schmeichel Order of the British Empire is a retired Danish people professional association football who played as a goalkeeper , and was voted the "World's Best Goalkeeper" in 1992 and 1993....	Erin Boag Erin Boag Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, taught by her father, Robert 'Robbie' Boag. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia, and she moved to London eighteen months later, when she was in her early twenties....	Week 7
Claire King Claire King Claire King is a popular England actress, best known for playing the roles of Kim Tate in the ITV Soap Opera Emmerdale from 1988 to 1999 and Karen Betts in Bad Girls from 2000 to 2004....	Brendan Cole Brendan Cole Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin dance. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer....	Week 8
Carol Smillie Carol Smillie Carol Smillie is a Scottish people television personality. Smillie is probably best known for presenting the award winning British Broadcasting Corporation series Changing Rooms ....	Matthew Cutler Matthew Cutler Matthew David Cutler is an England dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He is a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing....	Week 9
Louisa Lytton Louisa Lytton Louisa Claire Lytton is an English actor who was born in London Borough of Camden and lives in Islington. She rose to fame in 2005 when joining EastEnders as Ruby Allen....	Vincent Simone Vincent Simone Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy but moved to United Kingdom when he was 17 and has since lived in Guildford, Surrey. He was born into a family of professional dancers....	Week 10
Emma Bunton Emma Bunton Emma Lee Bunton is an English pop music singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Bunton is best known for being a member of the successful '90s girl group, the Spice Girls, in which she was known as "Baby Spice" as she was the youngest member and often wore revealing "babydoll" dresses....	Darren Bennett Darren Bennett (dancer) Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....	Week 11 (third place)
Matt Dawson Matt Dawson Matthew James Sutherland "Daws" Dawson Order of the British Empire is a now retired English people rugby union player who played Rugby union positions#9....	Lilia Kopylova Lilia Kopylova Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....	Final (second place)
Mark Ramprakash Mark Ramprakash Mark Ravin Ramprakash is an England cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he first made his name playing for Middlesex County Cricket Club, and was selected for English cricket team aged 21....	Karen Hardy Karen Hardy Karen Hardy , competed as a professional Latin American dancer, and is a former international, United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters Champion....	Series winners

Series 5

The fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing began on BBC One on 29 September 2007, with Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly returning as presenters. For the first time, the line up of professionals was unchanged from the previous series. The first programme was a catch-up show and preview to the new series, before the start of the competition on 6 October, which ran for 12 weeks. The show featured 14 new celebrities, who were paired with 14 professional dancers. In a change to the previous format, the results show was recorded on Saturday and broadcast on Sunday, rather than shown live later on Saturday. In addition to this, the two couples who were at the bottom of the table after the viewers' vote were subject to a dance-off, where they reprised their routine, for the judges to decide who left. Head Judge Len Goodman

Len Goodman

Celebrity	Professional	Voted out
Brian Capron Brian Capron Brian Capron, born 11 February 1947 at Eye, Suffolk in Suffolk, is a United Kingdom actor, who trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ....	Karen Hardy Karen Hardy Karen Hardy , competed as a professional Latin American dancer, and is a former international, United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters Champion....	Week 1
Stephanie Beacham Stephanie Beacham Stephanie Beacham is an England actor....	Vincent Simone Vincent Simone Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy but moved to United Kingdom when he was 17 and has since lived in Guildford, Surrey. He was born into a family of professional dancers....	Week 2
Willie Thorne Willie Thorne William Joseph Thorne , best known as Willie Thorne, is a former English people professional snooker player and now a Sportscaster....	Erin Boag Erin Boag Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, taught by her father, Robert 'Robbie' Boag. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia, and she moved to London eighteen months later, when she was in her early twenties....	Week 3
Gabby Logan Gabby Logan Gabby Logan , is a Great Britain television presenter and former Wales international gymnast. She currently hosts programmes for BBC Sport, mainly focusing on Association football....	James Jordan James Jordan (dancer) James Jordan is an England ballroom dancing. His dance partner is wife Ola Jordan, with whom he turned professional in 2000....	Week 4
Dominic Littlewood Dominic Littlewood Dominic John Littlewood is a British television presenter, journalist and comedian.Littlewood attended St Thomas More's High School for Boys, Westcliff-on-Sea from 1976 to 1981 and, on leaving, worked in the new and used car business in Essex, setting up his own business in the late 1980s....	Lilia Kopylova Lilia Kopylova Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....	Week 5
Penny Lancaster Stewart Penny Lancaster Penny Lancaster-Stewart is an England Model and photographer. She is probably best known for her modeling work for designer lingerie brand Ultimo ....	Ian Waite Ian Waite Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....	Week 6
Kate Garraway Kate Garraway Kathryn Mary Garraway is an England journalist and currently a co-presenter on GMTV....	Anton du Beke Anton du Beke Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer and television presenter. His dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003....	Week 7
John Barnes John Barnes (footballer) John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE is a Jamaica-born former professional English football player whose most successful spells were for Watford F.C....	Nicole Cutler Nicole Cutler Nicole Cutler is a professional ballroom dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. She was born Nicole Westdyk in Durban, South Africa and after taking up ballet at the age of four, first tried out ballroom and Latin-American dancing at the age of twelve....	Week 8
Kelly Brook Kelly Brook Kelly Brook is an English model, actor, occasional swimsuit designer and television presenter....	Brendan Cole Brendan Cole Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin dance. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer....	Withdrew due to bereavement
Kenny Logan Kenny Logan Kenneth McKerrow Logan is a rugby union footballer who plays for London Scottish F.C. and formerly Scotland national rugby union team.As a schoolboy Logan had Football trials as a goalkeeper for Dundee United F.C....	Ola Jordan Ola Jordan Aleksandra "Ola" Jordan is a Latin dance specialist best known for her appearances on the United Kingdom TV show Strictly Come Dancing. She married her professional dance partner James Jordan in 2003....	Week 9
Letitia Dean Letitia Dean Letitia Dean is an England actor. She is best known for her role as Sharon Watts in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, who was one of the serial's original characters....	Darren Bennett Darren Bennett (dancer) Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....	Week 10
Gethin Jones Gethin Jones Gethin Clifford Jones is a Wales Presenter#Television presenters best known for co-presenting the long-running BBC children's show Blue Peter....	Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....	Week 11 (third place)
Matt Di Angelo Matt Di Angelo Matt Di Angelo is an England actor of Greek and Irish descent.He is known for playing fictional character Deano Wicks in the popular British soap EastEnders....	Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace is an English professional dancer. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone....	Final (second place)
Alesha Dixon Alesha Dixon Alesha Anjanette Dixon is a British people singer, songwriter, model and television personality. After finding fame in the all-female trio Mis-Teeq, she is now solo....	Matthew Cutler Matthew Cutler Matthew David Cutler is an England dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He is a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing....	Series winners

Series 6

A sixth series of the show was confirmed after the dancers' pay dispute was called off in late June 2008. The series lasted for 14 weeks, which is the longest series so far. The new series will involve three new professional dancers, Brian Fortuna

Brian Fortuna

Brian Fortuna is a professional United States ballroom dancer, choreographer and instructor....
, Hayley Holt

Hayley Holt

Hayley Holt is a New Zealand snowboarder and ballroom dancer notable for her appearances on several reality television series.Early life...
and Kristina Rihanoff

Kristina Rihanoff

Kristina Rihanoff is a world finalist professional ballroom dancer, instructor, and author, born on 22 September 1977 in Siberia, Russia. ...
.

In July 2008 it was reported that current EastEnders cast members were banned from taking part in the competition due to the length of the series.

The sixth series began on 13 September with a behind-the-scenes look at the new series, followed by the first live show on 20 September.

On 19 November 2008, John Sergeant announced that he would be leaving the show because he believed he may "win it".

Celebrity	Professional	Voted out
Phil Daniels Phil Daniels Philip Daniels is an England actor, most noted for film roles as Jimmy in Quadrophenia , Richards in Scum , Kevin Wicks in EastEnders, and for his collaborations with Britpop band Blur ....	Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace is an English professional dancer. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone....	Week 1
Gillian Taylforth Gillian Taylforth Gillian Taylforth is an England actress. She is best known for her roles as Kathy Mitchell on the BBC soap opera, EastEnders and as Jackie Pascoe-Webb on ITV's Footballers Wives , but more recently as Sgt....	Anton du Beke Anton du Beke Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer and television presenter. His dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003....	Week 2
Gary Rhodes Gary Rhodes Gary Rhodes Order of the British Empire is an England restaurateur, Food writing, and celebrity chef, known for his love of British cuisine, distinctive hair style , and use of butter and mustard in his recipes....	Karen Hardy Karen Hardy Karen Hardy , competed as a professional Latin American dancer, and is a former international, United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters Champion....	Week 3
Jessie Wallace Jessie Wallace Jessie Wallace is an English actress....	Darren Bennett Darren Bennett (dancer) Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....	Week 4
Don Warrington Don Warrington Don Warrington, Order of the British Empire is a Trinidadian British actor....	Lilia Kopylova Lilia Kopylova Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....	Week 5
Mark Foster Mark Foster (swimmer) Mark Andrew Foster is an England swimmer, specialising in butterfly stroke and freestyle swimming at 50 metres.He is a specialist short course swimmer....	Hayley Holt Hayley Holt Hayley Holt is a New Zealand snowboarder and ballroom dancer notable for her appearances on several reality television series.Early life...	Week 6
Andrew Castle Andrew Castle Andrew Nicholas Castle is an English retired tennis professional, and now television presenter....	Ola Jordan Ola Jordan Aleksandra "Ola" Jordan is a Latin dance specialist best known for her appearances on the United Kingdom TV show Strictly Come Dancing. She married her professional dance partner James Jordan in 2003....	Week 7
Heather Small Heather Small Heather Small is a British soul music singer, best known for being the lead singer in the Manchester based band M People and her solo debut album Proud ....	Brian Fortuna Brian Fortuna Brian Fortuna is a professional United States ballroom dancer, choreographer and instructor....	Week 8
Cherie Lunghi Cherie Lunghi Cherie Lunghi is a United Kingdom actress....	James Jordan James Jordan (dancer) James Jordan is an England ballroom dancing. His dance partner is wife Ola Jordan, with whom he turned professional in 2000....	Week 9
John Sergeant John Sergeant (journalist) John Sergeant is a United Kingdom television and radio journalist and broadcaster.The son of a missionary who was also a distinguished linguistics, he is of Russian origin on his mother's side....	Kristina Rihanoff Kristina Rihanoff Kristina Rihanoff is a world finalist professional ballroom dancer, instructor, and author, born on 22 September 1977 in Siberia, Russia. ...	Withdrew
Jodie Kidd Jodie Kidd Jodie Kidd is a television personality and former Model ....	Ian Waite Ian Waite Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....	Week 10
Christine Bleakley Christine Bleakley Christine Bleakley is a Northern Irish Presenter known for co-presenting The One Show on BBC One. She took part in BBC's Strictly Come Dancing in 2008....	Matthew Cutler Matthew Cutler Matthew David Cutler is an England dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He is a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing....	Week 11
Austin Healey Austin Healey Austin Sean Healey is an English rugby union player, who played as a utility back for Leicester Tigers, and has represented England national rugby union team and the British and Irish Lions....	Erin Boag Erin Boag Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, taught by her father, Robert 'Robbie' Boag. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia, and she moved to London eighteen months later, when she was in her early twenties....	Week 12
Lisa Snowdon Lisa Snowdon Lisa Snowdon is an England Model and television personality, who has recently started work as a radio host with Johnny Vaughan, presenting the breakfast show, on London's Capital 95.8, replacing Denise Van Outen....	Brendan Cole Brendan Cole Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin dance. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer....	Final (third place)
Rachel Stevens Rachel Stevens Rachel Lauren Stevens is an English singer, actor and occasional model. She is a former member, and one of the lead singers, of the successful pop music group S Club, and launched a solo recording career in 2003, releasing seven singles and two albums in the UK between 2003 and 2005....	Vincent Simone Vincent Simone Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy but moved to United Kingdom when he was 17 and has since lived in Guildford, Surrey. He was born into a family of professional dancers....	Final (second place)
Tom Chambers Tom Chambers (actor) Thomas Stuart Chambers , known as Tom Chambers, is a British actor, most notable for his role as Sam Strachan in the BBC medical drama Holby City....	Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....	Series winners

Specials

2004 Christmas Special

This Christmas

Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
special was broadcast live on 22 December 2004, featuring top couples from both of the first two series (with the exception of Christopher Parker

Christopher Parker

Christopher Parker is an English actor and television presenter....
and Julian Clary

Julian Clary

Julian Clary is an England comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre....
, who were not able to appear). The show was won by Jill Halfpenny

Jill Halfpenny

Jill Halfpenny is an England actor.Halfpenny is possibly best known for her role as Kate in the United Kingdom TV drama EastEnders, from 2002-5....
and Darren Bennett

Darren Bennett (dancer)

Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....
.

In order of judges' placing

Celebrity	Professional	Place	Judges' scores	Dance
Martin Offiah Martin Offiah Martin "Chariots" Offiah Order of the British Empire is an English former rugby league and, briefly, rugby union footballer of the 1980s, 90s and 2000s....	Erin Boag Erin Boag Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, taught by her father, Robert 'Robbie' Boag. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia, and she moved to London eighteen months later, when she was in her early twenties....	6th	6+6+7+7=26	Jive Jive (dance) In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance....
Aled Jones Aled Jones Aled Jones is a Wales singer and television/radio personality and broadcaster who first came to fame as a boy soprano. He is the only child of Nest and Derek Jones, was raised in the small Welsh-speaking community of Llandegfan, in Anglesey and attended Ysgol David Hughes....	Lilia Kopylova Lilia Kopylova Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....	5th	7+7+8+8=30	Samba Samba (ballroom) Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance of Brazilian origin in 2/4 time signature danced under the Samba music. However, there are three steps to every bar, making the Samba feel like a 3/4 timed dance....
Lesley Garrett Lesley Garrett Lesley Garrett Order of the British Empire is an England soprano, broadcaster and media personality....	Anton du Beke Anton du Beke Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer and television presenter. His dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003....	4th	7+8+8+8=31	Waltz Waltz The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....
Natasha Kaplinsky Natasha Kaplinsky Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky is an England News presenter, currently employed by Channel Five....	Brendan Cole Brendan Cole Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin dance. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer....	3rd	7+8+9+9=33	Foxtrot
Denise Lewis Denise Lewis Denise Lewis Order of the British Empire is a British athletics who specialises in the heptathlon. Her greatest triumph was winning the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics....	Ian Waite Ian Waite Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....	2nd	9+9+9+10=37	Quickstep Quickstep Quickstep is an Ballroom glossary#International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot . An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep would be Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing"....
Jill Halfpenny Jill Halfpenny Jill Halfpenny is an England actor.Halfpenny is possibly best known for her role as Kate in the United Kingdom TV drama EastEnders, from 2002-5....	Darren Bennett Darren Bennett (dancer) Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....	1st	9+9+9+9=36	Jive Jive (dance) In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance....

2005 Christmas Special

The Christmas special in 2005 featured the top four couples (Gough/Kopylova, Jackson/Boag, Ball/Waite, Martin/Dallerup) from the 2005 series competing against two competitors from the US version, Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars (US TV series)

Dancing with the Stars is a reality show airing on American Broadcasting Company in the United States. The show is based on the United Kingdom BBC Television series Strictly Come Dancing and is part of BBC Worldwide's international Dancing with the Stars franchise....
, who danced with two professionals from the British series. The two competitors from the US series were Rachel Hunter

Rachel Hunter

Rachel Hunter is a model, actress and Reality television show host....
, who was teamed with Brendan Cole, and Evander Holyfield

Evander Holyfield

Evander Holyfield is a professional boxing from the United States and a multiple world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"....
, who danced with Karen Hardy. Season 2 winner Jill Halfpenny was scheduled to appear with her partner Darren Bennett, but pulled out due to a break down in fee negotiations.

24 December 2005, in order of elimination

Celebrity	Professional	Place	Judges' scores	Dance
Evander Holyfield Evander Holyfield Evander Holyfield is a professional boxing from the United States and a multiple world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"....	Karen Hardy Karen Hardy Karen Hardy , competed as a professional Latin American dancer, and is a former international, United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters Champion....	6th	3+5+7+7=22	Jive Jive (dance) In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance....
Rachel Hunter Rachel Hunter Rachel Hunter is a model, actress and Reality television show host....	Brendan Cole Brendan Cole Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin dance. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer....	5th	9+9+9+9=36	Rumba Rumba (dance) Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.First, it means Cuban event of African style, organically related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music....
Colin Jackson Colin Jackson Colin Ray Jackson Order of the British Empire is a Welsh people former Sprint and hurdling Athletics of Jamaican, Jamaican Maroons, Taino, and Scottish people ancestry, who now works as a Sportscaster for athletics and television presenter predominantly for the BBC....	Erin Boag Erin Boag Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, taught by her father, Robert 'Robbie' Boag. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia, and she moved to London eighteen months later, when she was in her early twenties....	4th	9+8+9+9=35	Cha-Cha-Cha Cha-cha-cha (dance) Cha-cha-cha is the name of a Latin American dance of Cuban origin. The name may also be spelled chachach?. It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorr?n in 1953....
James Martin James Martin (chef) James Martin , is an England celebrity chef who first appeared on television in 1996....	Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....	3rd	8+10+10+9=37	Foxtrot
Zoe Ball Zoë Ball Zo? Louise Ball is an England television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show and for her earlier work presenting 1990s kids show Live & Kicking....	Ian Waite Ian Waite Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....	2nd	9+9+10+10=38	Foxtrot
Darren Gough Darren Gough Darren Gough is a retired England cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's all-time highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth most successful wicket...	Lilia Kopylova Lilia Kopylova Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....	1st	10+10+10+10=40	Quickstep Quickstep Quickstep is an Ballroom glossary#International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot . An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep would be Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing"....

As well as winning the 2005 series, Darren Gough

Darren Gough

Lilia Kopylova

2006 Christmas Special

The Christmas special in 2006 featured stars from the third and fourth series going head to head to perform their highest-scoring dances. The theme of the programme was black and white, so whether it was wintry white gowns, the little black dress or top hat and tails, the dancers and the dance floor were decked in black and white, setting the stage for some show-stopping performances.

It was a pre-recorded show shown on Christmas Day on BBC One. The couples who took part were:

Celebrity	Professional	Place	Judges' Scores	Dance
Matt Dawson Matt Dawson Matthew James Sutherland "Daws" Dawson Order of the British Empire is a now retired English people rugby union player who played Rugby union positions#9....	Lilia Kopylova Lilia Kopylova Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....	-	9+9+10+9=37	Waltz Waltz The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....
Louisa Lytton Louisa Lytton Louisa Claire Lytton is an English actor who was born in London Borough of Camden and lives in Islington. She rose to fame in 2005 when joining EastEnders as Ruby Allen....	Vincent Simone Vincent Simone Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy but moved to United Kingdom when he was 17 and has since lived in Guildford, Surrey. He was born into a family of professional dancers....	-	9+9+9+9=36	Jive Jive (dance) In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance....
Mark Ramprakash Mark Ramprakash Mark Ravin Ramprakash is an England cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he first made his name playing for Middlesex County Cricket Club, and was selected for English cricket team aged 21....	Karen Hardy Karen Hardy Karen Hardy , competed as a professional Latin American dancer, and is a former international, United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters Champion....	-	9+9+9+9=36	Salsa Salsa (dance) Salsa is a dance for Salsa music created by Spanish language-speaking people from the Caribbean and their immigrant communities in the US. Salsa dancing mixes African and European dance influences through the music and dance fusions that are the roots of Salsa: Cuban SonGuaguanc?, Spanish Rumba, Boogaloo, Pachanga, Guaracha, Plena, Bomba, ....
Emma Bunton Emma Bunton Emma Lee Bunton is an English pop music singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Bunton is best known for being a member of the successful '90s girl group, the Spice Girls, in which she was known as "Baby Spice" as she was the youngest member and often wore revealing "babydoll" dresses....	Darren Bennett Darren Bennett (dancer) Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....	-	9+9+9+9=36	Samba Samba (ballroom) Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance of Brazilian origin in 2/4 time signature danced under the Samba music. However, there are three steps to every bar, making the Samba feel like a 3/4 timed dance....
Zoe Ball Zoë Ball Zo? Louise Ball is an England television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show and for her earlier work presenting 1990s kids show Live & Kicking....	Ian Waite Ian Waite Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....	2nd	9+10+9+10=38	Rumba Rumba (dance) Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.First, it means Cuban event of African style, organically related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music....
Colin Jackson Colin Jackson Colin Ray Jackson Order of the British Empire is a Welsh people former Sprint and hurdling Athletics of Jamaican, Jamaican Maroons, Taino, and Scottish people ancestry, who now works as a Sportscaster for athletics and television presenter predominantly for the BBC....	Erin Boag Erin Boag Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, taught by her father, Robert 'Robbie' Boag. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia, and she moved to London eighteen months later, when she was in her early twenties....	1st	10+10+10+10=40	Quickstep Quickstep Quickstep is an Ballroom glossary#International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot . An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep would be Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing"....

After the combined scores of the judges' marks and the votes of the studio audience, Colin Jackson and Erin Boag won the competition, after getting the full 40 marks from the judges, with Zoe Ball

Zoë Ball

Zo? Louise Ball is an England television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show and for her earlier work presenting 1990s kids show Live & Kicking....
and Ian Waite

Ian Waite

Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....
being runners up. The final places of the bottom four couples was not announced - they were eliminated from the competition in a random order.

2007 Christmas Special

The 2007 Christmas Special featured the top four couples from Series Five (Alesha Dixon

Alesha Dixon

Alesha Anjanette Dixon is a British people singer, songwriter, model and television personality. After finding fame in the all-female trio Mis-Teeq, she is now solo....
, Matt Di Angelo

Matt Di Angelo

Matt Di Angelo is an England actor of Greek and Irish descent.He is known for playing fictional character Deano Wicks in the popular British soap EastEnders....
, Gethin Jones

Gethin Jones

Gethin Clifford Jones is a Wales Presenter#Television presenters best known for co-presenting the long-running BBC children's show Blue Peter....
and Letitia Dean

Letitia Dean

Letitia Dean is an England actor. She is best known for her role as Sharon Watts in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, who was one of the serial's original characters....
), as well as Darren Gough

Darren Gough

Mark Ramprakash

Mark Ravin Ramprakash is an England cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he first made his name playing for Middlesex County Cricket Club, and was selected for English cricket team aged 21....
(champions of Series Three and Four respectively). The winner was Series Three champion Darren Gough

Darren Gough

Darren Gough is a retired England cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's all-time highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth most successful wicket...
, who received a perfect 40 for his American Smooth, and had the highest score overall when the judges' points were combined with the studio audience vote. Series Five semi-finalist Gethin Jones

Gethin Jones

Gethin Clifford Jones is a Wales Presenter#Television presenters best known for co-presenting the long-running BBC children's show Blue Peter....
, who also received a perfect 40 for his Waltz, was runner up. The final place of the bottom four couples was not announced.

It was broadcast on BBC One

BBC One

Celebrity	Professional	Place	Judges' score	Dance
Alesha Dixon Alesha Dixon Alesha Anjanette Dixon is a British people singer, songwriter, model and television personality. After finding fame in the all-female trio Mis-Teeq, she is now solo....	Matthew Cutler Matthew Cutler Matthew David Cutler is an England dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He is a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing....	-	9+9+9+9=36	Cha-cha-cha Cha-cha-cha (dance) Cha-cha-cha is the name of a Latin American dance of Cuban origin. The name may also be spelled chachach?. It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorr?n in 1953....
Letitia Dean Letitia Dean Letitia Dean is an England actor. She is best known for her role as Sharon Watts in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, who was one of the serial's original characters....	Darren Bennett Darren Bennett (dancer) Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....	-	9+9+9+9=36	Foxtrot
Mark Ramprakash Mark Ramprakash Mark Ravin Ramprakash is an England cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he first made his name playing for Middlesex County Cricket Club, and was selected for English cricket team aged 21....	Karen Hardy Karen Hardy Karen Hardy , competed as a professional Latin American dancer, and is a former international, United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters Champion....	-	9+9+10+10=38	Jive Jive (dance) In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance....
Matt Di Angelo Matt Di Angelo Matt Di Angelo is an England actor of Greek and Irish descent.He is known for playing fictional character Deano Wicks in the popular British soap EastEnders....	Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace is an English professional dancer. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone....	-	9+10+10+10=39	Rumba Rumba (dance) Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.First, it means Cuban event of African style, organically related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music....
Gethin Jones Gethin Jones Gethin Clifford Jones is a Wales Presenter#Television presenters best known for co-presenting the long-running BBC children's show Blue Peter....	Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....	2nd	10+10+10+10=40	Waltz Waltz The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....
Darren Gough Darren Gough Darren Gough is a retired England cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's all-time highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth most successful wicket...	Lilia Kopylova Lilia Kopylova Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....	1st	10+10+10+10=40	American Smooth

2008 Christmas Special

The 2008 Christmas Special aired on 25 December 2008. Tom Chambers

Tom Chambers (actor)

Thomas Stuart Chambers , known as Tom Chambers, is a British actor, most notable for his role as Sam Strachan in the BBC medical drama Holby City....
, Rachel Stevens

Rachel Stevens

Rachel Lauren Stevens is an English singer, actor and occasional model. She is a former member, and one of the lead singers, of the successful pop music group S Club, and launched a solo recording career in 2003, releasing seven singles and two albums in the UK between 2003 and 2005....
and Lisa Snowdon

Lisa Snowdon

Lisa Snowdon is an England Model and television personality, who has recently started work as a radio host with Johnny Vaughan, presenting the breakfast show, on London's Capital 95.8, replacing Denise Van Outen....
took on former contestants Jill Halfpenny

Jill Halfpenny

Jill Halfpenny is an England actor.Halfpenny is possibly best known for her role as Kate in the United Kingdom TV drama EastEnders, from 2002-5....
, Alesha Dixon

Alesha Dixon

Alesha Anjanette Dixon is a British people singer, songwriter, model and television personality. After finding fame in the all-female trio Mis-Teeq, she is now solo....
and Kelly Brook

Kelly Brook

Kelly Brook is an English model, actor, occasional swimsuit designer and television presenter....
. Brian Fortuna

Brian Fortuna

Brian Fortuna is a professional United States ballroom dancer, choreographer and instructor....
partnered Brook due to her original partner Brendan Cole

Brendan Cole

Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin dance. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer....
dancing with his more recent partner Lisa Snowdon. Russell Watson

Russell Watson

Russell Watson is an English tenor who has released single s and albums of both Opera-style and popular music songs. The self-styled "People's Tenor" had been singing since he was a child, and became known after performing at a working men's club....
made a special guest appearance. The celebrities, their professional partners and dance were announced on 17 December 2008. Due to 4 couples coming top of the leader's board with 39 points, head judge Len was given casting vote on how to break the tie. Therefore points from the judge were awarded as follows before the audience vote: Alesha 6, Jill 5, Rachel 4, Kelly 3, Tom 2, Lisa 1. Jill Halfpenny was named the 2008 Christmas Champion with Kelly Brook in second place, meaning that Jill joined Darren Gough in having won two Christmas specials, and her partner Darren Bennett equalled his professional partner and wife Lilia Kopylova's two Christmas special victories.

Celebrity	Professional	Place	Judges' score	Dance
Lisa Snowdon Lisa Snowdon Lisa Snowdon is an England Model and television personality, who has recently started work as a radio host with Johnny Vaughan, presenting the breakfast show, on London's Capital 95.8, replacing Denise Van Outen....	Brendan Cole Brendan Cole Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin dance. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer....	—	8+9+9+10=36	Quickstep Quickstep Quickstep is an Ballroom glossary#International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot . An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep would be Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing"....
Tom Chambers Tom Chambers (actor) Thomas Stuart Chambers , known as Tom Chambers, is a British actor, most notable for his role as Sam Strachan in the BBC medical drama Holby City....	Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....	—	9+10+9+9=37	Foxtrot
Rachel Stevens Rachel Stevens Rachel Lauren Stevens is an English singer, actor and occasional model. She is a former member, and one of the lead singers, of the successful pop music group S Club, and launched a solo recording career in 2003, releasing seven singles and two albums in the UK between 2003 and 2005....	Vincent Simone Vincent Simone Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy but moved to United Kingdom when he was 17 and has since lived in Guildford, Surrey. He was born into a family of professional dancers....	—	9+10+10+10=39	Rumba Rumba (dance) Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.First, it means Cuban event of African style, organically related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music....
Alesha Dixon Alesha Dixon Alesha Anjanette Dixon is a British people singer, songwriter, model and television personality. After finding fame in the all-female trio Mis-Teeq, she is now solo....	Matthew Cutler Matthew Cutler Matthew David Cutler is an England dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He is a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing....	—	9+10+10+10=39	Viennese Waltz Viennese Waltz Viennese Waltz is the genre of a ballroom dance. At least three different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in ballroom dancing, danced to the music of Viennese Waltz....
Kelly Brook Kelly Brook Kelly Brook is an English model, actor, occasional swimsuit designer and television presenter....	Brian Fortuna Brian Fortuna Brian Fortuna is a professional United States ballroom dancer, choreographer and instructor....	2nd	10+9+10+10=39	Jive Jive (dance) In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance....
Jill Halfpenny Jill Halfpenny Jill Halfpenny is an England actor.Halfpenny is possibly best known for her role as Kate in the United Kingdom TV drama EastEnders, from 2002-5....	Darren Bennett Darren Bennett (dancer) Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....	1st	9+10+10+10=39	American Smooth

The Strictly Come Dancing Story

The Strictly Come Dancing Story was shown on 28 December 2007. While looking back at the last five series of Strictly Come Dancing, it also explained how it came about, showed clips of the original Come Dancing
Come Dancing

Come Dancing was a BBC TV ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off from 1949 to 1998, becoming one of television's longest-running shows....
show, highlights from the series one to five, and how the show has transferred to other countries around the world.

Strictly Ice Dancing

Strictly Ice Dancing was broadcast as a one-off special on 26 December 2004; with Carol Smillie

Carol Smillie

Carol Smillie is a Scottish people television personality. Smillie is probably best known for presenting the award winning British Broadcasting Corporation series Changing Rooms ....
, Jessica Taylor

Jessica Taylor (Liberty X)

Jessica Taylor is a singer, previously with the reality television pop group Liberty X....
, Scarlett Johnson

Scarlett Johnson

Scarlett Johnson also known as Scarlett Alice Johnson is a United Kingdom actress best known for playing the role of Vicki Fowler on the BBC's flagship soap opera EastEnders...
, Marcus Patric

Marcus Patric

Marcus Patric is a British actor, best known for the role of Ben Davies in the British soap opera Hollyoaks and its spin-offs Hollyoaks: Let Loose and Hollyoaks: In the City....
, David Seaman

David Seaman

David Andrew Seaman Order of the British Empire is a former England football goalkeeper who played for several clubs, most notably Arsenal F.C....
, and Rowland Rivron

Rowland Rivron

Rowland Rivron is a British comedian, musician, writer and a television presenter. He was brought up in Hillingdon, West London.Rivron first came to fame through his appearances as the comedy character of "Dr Scrote" on the Jonathan Stephen Ross chat show The Last Resort, before appearing on Night Network's Bunker Show....
paired with professional skaters

Figure skating

Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform figure skating spins, figure skating jumps, moves in the field and other intricate and challenging moves on ice....
. This was won by David Seaman

David Seaman

David Andrew Seaman Order of the British Empire is a former England football goalkeeper who played for several clubs, most notably Arsenal F.C....
(who was a late replacement for Paul Gascoigne

Paul Gascoigne

Paul John Gascoigne , often referred to as Gazza, is a retired England football , who is widely regarded as one of the most gifted players of his generation....
) and his partner Zoia Birmingham.

In order of elimination, the competitors were:

Celebrity	Professional
Rowland Rivron Rowland Rivron Rowland Rivron is a British comedian, musician, writer and a television presenter. He was brought up in Hillingdon, West London.Rivron first came to fame through his appearances as the comedy character of "Dr Scrote" on the Jonathan Stephen Ross chat show The Last Resort, before appearing on Night Network's Bunker Show....	Charlotte Clements Charlotte Clements Charlotte Clements is a Great Britain ice dancer. With partner Gary Shortland, she captured the gold medal at the British Ice Figure and Dance Championships in 1997 and again in 1998....
Marcus Patric Marcus Patric Marcus Patric is a British actor, best known for the role of Ben Davies in the British soap opera Hollyoaks and its spin-offs Hollyoaks: Let Loose and Hollyoaks: In the City....	Leigh Mack
Carol Smillie Carol Smillie Carol Smillie is a Scottish people television personality. Smillie is probably best known for presenting the award winning British Broadcasting Corporation series Changing Rooms ....	Oula Jääskeläinen Oula Jääskeläinen Panu Oula J??skel?inen is a Finland figure skater. He is a multiple Finnish Figure Skating Championships. He placed 19th at the 1992 Winter Olympics....
Scarlett Johnson Scarlett Johnson Scarlett Johnson also known as Scarlett Alice Johnson is a United Kingdom actress best known for playing the role of Vicki Fowler on the BBC's flagship soap opera EastEnders...	Daniel Whiston Daniel Whiston Daniel Whiston is an England ice skater. He appeared in Strictly Come Dancing#Strictly Ice Dancing on BBC One and all series of ITV show Dancing on Ice....
Jessica Taylor Jessica Taylor (Liberty X) Jessica Taylor is a singer, previously with the reality television pop group Liberty X....	Robert Burgerman
David Seaman David Seaman David Andrew Seaman Order of the British Empire is a former England football goalkeeper who played for several clubs, most notably Arsenal F.C....	Zoia Birmingham

Strictly Ice Dancing was identical to the Granada format Dancing On Ice, although details of Dancing on Ice were revealed before Strictly Ice Dancing was commissioned.

Strictly African Dancing

A further one-off special was broadcast on BBC One on 9 July 2005 as part of the BBC's Africa Lives season. It featured six celebrities of African descent performing traditional African dances with a professional troupe. The contestants were Tunde Baiyewu

Tunde Baiyewu

Tunde Baiyewu is a baritone singer who gained fame as part of the easy listening duet , Lighthouse Family. In 2004 he embarked on a solo career, releasing the album, Tunde....
, Tupele Dorgu

Tupele Dorgu

Tupele Dorgu is a United Kingdom actress. Her mother is Irish people and her father is Nigerian.Born in Preston, Lancashire, on 13 December 1977, she now has a role as Kelly Crabtree in ITV1's Coronation Street, which she has played since late 2004....
, Robbie Earle

Robbie Earle

Robert Fitzgerald "Robbie" Earle Order of the British Empire is a former professional Association footballer who played as a midfielder and played approximately 600 games in senior club football, scoring around 150 goals....
, Antonia Okonma

Antonia Okonma

Antonia Okonma is a United Kingdom actress of Nigerian descent. She is best known for playing the role of Darlene Cake in the ITV1 series Bad Girls from 2004?2006....
, Louis Emerick

Louis Emerick

Louis Emerick, born June 10, 1953, Liverpool, England, UK, is a United Kingdom TV actor, best known for his portrayal of Mick Johnson in the soap opera Brookside....
, and Tessa Sanderson

Tessa Sanderson

Theresa Ione Sanderson Order of the British Empire is a former United Kingdom javelin throw thrower and heptathlon.Sanderson was born in Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, Jamaica of Ghanaian ancestry, she later emigrated to Wolverhampton, England....
. The programme was presented by Natasha Kaplinsky and Martin Offiah, and the winner was Robbie Earle. Professional dancers Darren Bennett

Darren Bennett (dancer)

Lilia Kopylova

Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....
, who have appeared on Strictly Come Dancing since the second series, also appeared on this special to perform a traditional African Samba. Ironically, the winner was of Jamaican, not African, descent.

In order of elimination:

Tunde Baiyewu
Tunde Baiyewu

Tunde Baiyewu is a baritone singer who gained fame as part of the easy listening duet , Lighthouse Family. In 2004 he embarked on a solo career, releasing the album, Tunde....
Louis Emerick
Louis Emerick

Louis Emerick, born June 10, 1953, Liverpool, England, UK, is a United Kingdom TV actor, best known for his portrayal of Mick Johnson in the soap opera Brookside....
Tupele Dorgu
Tupele Dorgu

Tupele Dorgu is a United Kingdom actress. Her mother is Irish people and her father is Nigerian.Born in Preston, Lancashire, on 13 December 1977, she now has a role as Kelly Crabtree in ITV1's Coronation Street, which she has played since late 2004....
Tessa Sanderson
Tessa Sanderson

Theresa Ione Sanderson Order of the British Empire is a former United Kingdom javelin throw thrower and heptathlon.Sanderson was born in Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, Jamaica of Ghanaian ancestry, she later emigrated to Wolverhampton, England....
Antonia Okonma
Antonia Okonma

Antonia Okonma is a United Kingdom actress of Nigerian descent. She is best known for playing the role of Darlene Cake in the ITV1 series Bad Girls from 2004?2006....
Robbie Earle
Robbie Earle

Robert Fitzgerald "Robbie" Earle Order of the British Empire is a former professional Association footballer who played as a midfielder and played approximately 600 games in senior club football, scoring around 150 goals....

The Live Tour! 2008

Strictly Come Dancing went on tour at the beginning of 2008 for the first time. The tour was hosted by Kate Thornton

Kate Thornton

Kate Louise Thornton is an England journalist and television presenter, most famous for being the first host of The X Factor , and best known internationally for her coverage of the Concert for Diana....
, and judged by Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian dancing, choreography, and theatre director in the United Kingdom....
, Arlene Phillips

Arlene Phillips

Arlene Phillips Order of the British Empire is an United Kingdom choreographer, talent scout and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment....
, & Len Goodman

Len Goodman

Bruno Tonioli

Bruno Tonioli is an Italy-born United Kingdom dancer and professional choreographer. He was born and raised in Ferrara, Italy. He is the son of Werther, a bus driver, and Fulvia, a seamstress....
was not a judge in this competition due to him being in Los Angeles. The tour began on 18 January 2008 in Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's Scottish Lowlands....
and finished on 19 February 2008 in Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....
.

Celebrity dancers taking part were:

Christopher Parker
Christopher Parker

Christopher Parker is an English actor and television presenter....
(dancing with Nicole Cutler
Nicole Cutler

Nicole Cutler is a professional ballroom dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. She was born Nicole Westdyk in Durban, South Africa and after taking up ballet at the age of four, first tried out ballroom and Latin-American dancing at the age of twelve....
)
Denise Lewis
Denise Lewis

Denise Lewis Order of the British Empire is a British athletics who specialises in the heptathlon. Her greatest triumph was winning the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics....
(dancing with Matthew Cutler
Matthew Cutler

Matthew David Cutler is an England dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He is a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing....
)
Darren Gough
Darren Gough

Darren Gough is a retired England cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's all-time highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth most successful wicket...
(dancing with Lilia Kopylova
Lilia Kopylova

Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....
)
James Martin
James Martin

James Martin or Jim Martin may refer to:Politicians:*Jim Martin , Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Georgia*James Martin , former Premier of New South Wales...
(dancing with Camilla Dallerup
Camilla Dallerup

Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....
)
Letitia Dean
Letitia Dean

Letitia Dean is an England actor. She is best known for her role as Sharon Watts in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, who was one of the serial's original characters....
(dancing with Darren Bennett
Darren Bennett (dancer)

Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....
)
Louisa Lytton
Louisa Lytton

Louisa Claire Lytton is an English actor who was born in London Borough of Camden and lives in Islington. She rose to fame in 2005 when joining EastEnders as Ruby Allen....
(dancing with Vincent Simone
Vincent Simone

Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy but moved to United Kingdom when he was 17 and has since lived in Guildford, Surrey. He was born into a family of professional dancers....
)
Matt Di Angelo
Matt Di Angelo

Matt Di Angelo is an England actor of Greek and Irish descent.He is known for playing fictional character Deano Wicks in the popular British soap EastEnders....
(dancing with Flavia Cacace
Flavia Cacace

Flavia Cacace is an English professional dancer. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone....
)
Zoe Ball
Zoë Ball

Zo? Louise Ball is an England television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show and for her earlier work presenting 1990s kids show Live & Kicking....
(dancing with Ian Waite
Ian Waite

Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....
)

The results of the tour are as follows:

Couple	Series	Number of times as winners	Number of times as runners up
Matt Di Angelo Matt Di Angelo Matt Di Angelo is an England actor of Greek and Irish descent.He is known for playing fictional character Deano Wicks in the popular British soap EastEnders.... and Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace is an English professional dancer. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone....	5	16	10
Louisa Lytton Louisa Lytton Louisa Claire Lytton is an English actor who was born in London Borough of Camden and lives in Islington. She rose to fame in 2005 when joining EastEnders as Ruby Allen.... and Vincent Simone Vincent Simone Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy but moved to United Kingdom when he was 17 and has since lived in Guildford, Surrey. He was born into a family of professional dancers....	4	10	3
Darren Gough Darren Gough Darren Gough is a retired England cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's all-time highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth most successful wicket... and Lilia Kopylova Lilia Kopylova Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....	3	8	10
Zoe Ball Zoë Ball Zo? Louise Ball is an England television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show and for her earlier work presenting 1990s kids show Live & Kicking.... and Ian Waite Ian Waite Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....	3	5	14
Letitia Dean Letitia Dean Letitia Dean is an England actor. She is best known for her role as Sharon Watts in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, who was one of the serial's original characters.... and Darren Bennett Darren Bennett (dancer) Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....	5	1	2

Denise Lewis

Denise Lewis Order of the British Empire is a British athletics who specialises in the heptathlon. Her greatest triumph was winning the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics....
, Christopher Parker

Christopher Parker

Christopher Parker is an English actor and television presenter....
, James Martin

James Martin

James Martin or Jim Martin may refer to:Politicians:*Jim Martin , Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Georgia*James Martin , former Premier of New South Wales...
were not winners or runners up at any stage of the tour .

The Live Tour! 2009

The Strictly Come Dancing Tour returned in January and February 2009. Kate Thornton

Kate Thornton

Couple	Series	Number of times as winners	Number of times as runners up
Rachel Stevens Rachel Stevens Rachel Lauren Stevens is an English singer, actor and occasional model. She is a former member, and one of the lead singers, of the successful pop music group S Club, and launched a solo recording career in 2003, releasing seven singles and two albums in the UK between 2003 and 2005.... and Vincent Simone Vincent Simone Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy but moved to United Kingdom when he was 17 and has since lived in Guildford, Surrey. He was born into a family of professional dancers....	6	26	14
Gethin Jones Gethin Jones Gethin Clifford Jones is a Wales Presenter#Television presenters best known for co-presenting the long-running BBC children's show Blue Peter.... and Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace is an English professional dancer. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone....	5	6	6
Kenny Logan Kenny Logan Kenneth McKerrow Logan is a rugby union footballer who plays for London Scottish F.C. and formerly Scotland national rugby union team.As a schoolboy Logan had Football trials as a goalkeeper for Dundee United F.C.... and Ola Jordan Ola Jordan Aleksandra "Ola" Jordan is a Latin dance specialist best known for her appearances on the United Kingdom TV show Strictly Come Dancing. She married her professional dance partner James Jordan in 2003....	5	6	0
Julian Clary Julian Clary Julian Clary is an England comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre.... and Lilia Kopylova Lilia Kopylova Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....	2	3	13
Jill Halfpenny Jill Halfpenny Jill Halfpenny is an England actor.Halfpenny is possibly best known for her role as Kate in the United Kingdom TV drama EastEnders, from 2002-5.... and Darren Bennett Darren Bennett (dancer) Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....	2	3	9
Tom Chambers Tom Chambers Thomas Doane Chambers is an American former star National Basketball Association professional basketball player at the power forward position.... and Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....	6	1	2
Cherie Lunghi Cherie Lunghi Cherie Lunghi is a United Kingdom actress.... and James Jordan James Jordan James Jordan, Jim Jordan or Jimmy Jordan is a name shared by the following individuals:...	6	0	1
Jodie Kidd Jodie Kidd Jodie Kidd is a television personality and former Model .... and Ian Waite Ian Waite Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....	6	0	0

Gethin Jones

Gethin Clifford Jones is a Wales Presenter#Television presenters best known for co-presenting the long-running BBC children's show Blue Peter....
and Julian Clary

Julian Clary

Julian Clary is an England comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre....
were paired with new professional partners - Jones' partner Camilla Dallerup

Camilla Dallerup

Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....
danced with her series six celebrity Tom Chambers

Tom Chambers

Thomas Doane Chambers is an American former star National Basketball Association professional basketball player at the power forward position....
, whilst Clary's partner (Erin Boag

Erin Boag

Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, taught by her father, Robert 'Robbie' Boag. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia, and she moved to London eighteen months later, when she was in her early twenties....
) did not take part in the tour.

Strictly Come Dancing professionals Matthew Cutler

Matthew Cutler

Matthew David Cutler is an England dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He is a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing....
and Kristina Rihanoff

Kristina Rihanoff

Kristina Rihanoff is a world finalist professional ballroom dancer, instructor, and author, born on 22 September 1977 in Siberia, Russia. ...
also performed a routine together.

Sport Relief Does Strictly Come Dancing

A Strictly Come Dancing one-off special for Sport Relief

Sport Relief

Len Goodman

Arlene Phillips

Arlene Phillips Order of the British Empire is an United Kingdom choreographer, talent scout and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment....
and Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian dancing, choreography, and theatre director in the United Kingdom....
judging.

The results were as follows:

Ex-Strictly Contestant	Celebrity	Place	Judges' scores	Dance
Denise Lewis Denise Lewis Denise Lewis Order of the British Empire is a British athletics who specialises in the heptathlon. Her greatest triumph was winning the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics....	David Ginola David Ginola David Ginola is a former French international Association football player who has also worked as an actor and model .He began his football career in his native France before moving to England in 1995 when he signed for Newcastle United F.C....	-	7+7+7=21	Waltz Waltz The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....
Roger Black Roger Black Roger Anthony Black Order of the British Empire is a retired United Kingdom Athletics who now works as a television presenter and motivational speaker....	Jade Johnson Jade Johnson Jade Linsey Johnson is an England athlete.Specialising in long jump, she came second in the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Later she won the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics and finished fourth at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics....	-	8+6+8=22	Cha Cha Cha
Darren Gough Darren Gough Darren Gough is a retired England cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's all-time highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth most successful wicket...	Gemma Bissix Gemma Bissix Gemma Bissix is an English actress. She has been acting since the age of 9. Her most prominent roles have been in soap operas, as Clare Bates in EastEnders and Clare Devine in Hollyoaks; she was awarded with two British Soap Awards for the latter role....	-	7+7+8=22	American Smooth
Matt Dawson Matt Dawson Matthew James Sutherland "Daws" Dawson Order of the British Empire is a now retired English people rugby union player who played Rugby union positions#9....	Elaine Paige Elaine Paige Elaine Paige Order of British Empire is an English people singer and actor best known for her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, North London, Paige attended the Aida Foster stage school and made her first professional appearance on stage in 1964....	2nd	8+9+8=25	Tango Tango (ballroom) Ballroom tango is a ballroom dance that branched away from its original Argentine roots by allowing European, American, Hollywood, and competitive influences into the style and execution of the dance....
Mark Ramprakash Mark Ramprakash Mark Ravin Ramprakash is an England cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he first made his name playing for Middlesex County Cricket Club, and was selected for English cricket team aged 21....	Kara Tointon Kara Tointon Kara Louise Tointon is an English actress, best known for playing Dawn Swann in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders....	1st	9+9+9=27	Samba

The ranking of the bottom three couples was not announced - they were eliminated from the competition in a random order.

A BBC spokesperson commented: "Sport Relief features Strictly Come Dancing with a difference."

Children In Need Special 2008

A Strictly Come Dancing one-off special for Children In Need

Children in Need

Fearne Cotton

Fearne Cotton is an England presenter known for presenting a number of popular TV programmes such as Top of the Pops and the Red Nose Day telethon....
presenting and Len Goodman

Len Goodman

Bruno Tonioli

Arlene Phillips

Arlene Phillips Order of the British Empire is an United Kingdom choreographer, talent scout and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment....
and Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian dancing, choreography, and theatre director in the United Kingdom....
judging.

The results were as follows:

Professional Dancer	Children In Need Host	Place	Judges' scores	Dance
Anton Du Beke Anton du Beke Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer and television presenter. His dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003....	Tess Daly Tess Daly Helen Elizabeth Tess Daly , is a British television presenter, and is married to the presenter Vernon Kay....	1st	9+9+9+9=36	American Smooth
Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace is an English professional dancer. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone....	Terry Wogan Terry Wogan Sir Michael Terence Wogan, Order of the British Empire Deputy Lieutenant more commonly known as Terry Wogan, is a veteran Irish people radio and television broadcaster, who has worked for the BBC in the United Kingdom for most of his career....	2nd	7+8+7+7=29	Waltz Waltz The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....

The Weakest Link Special 2008

On 27 December 2008, a special episode of The Weakest Link

The Weakest Link

The Weakest Link is a popular television quiz show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000. The original British version of the show airs around the world on BBC Entertainment and used to air on BBC America....
aired on BBC1 featuring participants of Strictly Come Dancing. The game was won by series 6 celebrity Mark Foster, who beat professional dancer Anton Du Beke in the final. Participants in order of elimination were:

Craig Revel Horwood
Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian dancing, choreography, and theatre director in the United Kingdom....
Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips

Arlene Phillips Order of the British Empire is an United Kingdom choreographer, talent scout and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment....
Kristina Rihanoff
Kristina Rihanoff

Kristina Rihanoff is a world finalist professional ballroom dancer, instructor, and author, born on 22 September 1977 in Siberia, Russia. ...
Camilla Dallerup
Camilla Dallerup

Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....
Mark Ramprakash
Mark Ramprakash

Mark Ravin Ramprakash is an England cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he first made his name playing for Middlesex County Cricket Club, and was selected for English cricket team aged 21....
Brendan Cole
Brendan Cole

Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin dance. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer....
Heather Small
Heather Small

Heather Small is a British soul music singer, best known for being the lead singer in the Manchester based band M People and her solo debut album Proud ....
Anton du Beke
Anton du Beke

Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer and television presenter. His dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003....
Mark Foster
Mark Foster (swimmer)

Mark Andrew Foster is an England swimmer, specialising in butterfly stroke and freestyle swimming at 50 metres.He is a specialist short course swimmer....

Statistics

Winners

There are two titles to win during a series of Strictly Come Dancing, the main series title and the Christmas

Christmas

Series Title: So far, there have been three female celebrity winners and three male celebrity winners.

Series 1 - Natasha Kaplinsky
Natasha Kaplinsky

Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky is an England News presenter, currently employed by Channel Five....
and her partner Brendan Cole
Brendan Cole

Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin dance. He has appeared on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer....
Series 2 - Jill Halfpenny
Jill Halfpenny

Jill Halfpenny is an England actor.Halfpenny is possibly best known for her role as Kate in the United Kingdom TV drama EastEnders, from 2002-5....
and her partner Darren Bennett
Darren Bennett (dancer)

Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....
Series 3 - Darren Gough
Darren Gough

Darren Gough is a retired England cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's all-time highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth most successful wicket...
and his partner Lilia Kopylova
Lilia Kopylova

Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....
Series 4 - Mark Ramprakash
Mark Ramprakash

Mark Ravin Ramprakash is an England cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he first made his name playing for Middlesex County Cricket Club, and was selected for English cricket team aged 21....
and his partner Karen Hardy
Karen Hardy

Karen Hardy , competed as a professional Latin American dancer, and is a former international, United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters Champion....
Series 5 - Alesha Dixon
Alesha Dixon

Alesha Anjanette Dixon is a British people singer, songwriter, model and television personality. After finding fame in the all-female trio Mis-Teeq, she is now solo....
and her partner Matthew Cutler
Matthew Cutler

Matthew David Cutler is an England dancing and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He is a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing....
Series 6 - Tom Chambers
Tom Chambers (actor)

Thomas Stuart Chambers , known as Tom Chambers, is a British actor, most notable for his role as Sam Strachan in the BBC medical drama Holby City....
and his partner Camilla Dallerup
Camilla Dallerup

Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....

Christmas Title: There have been one female celebrity and two male celebrity Christmas champions (Darren Gough and Jill Halfpenny have been Champions twice).

2004 Christmas Special - Jill Halfpenny
Jill Halfpenny

Jill Halfpenny is an England actor.Halfpenny is possibly best known for her role as Kate in the United Kingdom TV drama EastEnders, from 2002-5....
and her partner Darren Bennett
Darren Bennett (dancer)

Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dance, competing nationally and internationally....
2005 Christmas Special - Darren Gough
Darren Gough

Darren Gough is a retired England cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's all-time highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth most successful wicket...
and his partner Lilia Kopylova
Lilia Kopylova

Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....
2006 Christmas Special - Colin Jackson
Colin Jackson

Colin Ray Jackson Order of the British Empire is a Welsh people former Sprint and hurdling Athletics of Jamaican, Jamaican Maroons, Taino, and Scottish people ancestry, who now works as a Sportscaster for athletics and television presenter predominantly for the BBC....
and his partner Erin Boag
Erin Boag

Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, taught by her father, Robert 'Robbie' Boag. When she was a teenager, she moved to Australia, and she moved to London eighteen months later, when she was in her early twenties....
2007 Christmas Special - Darren Gough
Darren Gough

Darren Gough is a retired England cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's all-time highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth most successful wicket...
and his partner Lilia Kopylova
Lilia Kopylova

Lilia Andreievna Kopylova is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003....
2008 Christmas Special - Jill Halfpenny
Jill Halfpenny

Jill Halfpenny is an England actor.Halfpenny is possibly best known for her role as Kate in the United Kingdom TV drama EastEnders, from 2002-5....
and her partner Darren Bennett
Darren Bennett

Darren Bennett may refer to:*Darren Bennett , former Australian rules football player and American football punter in the NFL*Darren Bennett , professional Latin ballroom dancer...

Highest judges' scores

On eight occasions a perfect 40 out of 40 has been awarded inside the main series, with series six being the only series to have more than one perfect forty:

40/40: Jill Halfpenny and Darren Bennett; Jive; 11/12/2004 (Series 2 Final)
40/40: Mark Ramprakash and Karen Hardy; Salsa; 23/12/06 (Series 4 Final)
40/40: Matt Di Angelo and Flavia Cacace; Waltz; 15/12/07 (Series 5 Semi-Final)
40/40: Rachel Stevens and Vincent Simone; Foxtrot; 22/11/08 (Series 6 Week 10)
40/40: Lisa Snowdon and Brendan Cole; Quickstep; 13/12/08 (Series 6 Semi-Final)
40/40: Rachel Stevens and Vincent Simone; Foxtrot; 20/12/08 (Series 6 Final)
40/40: Lisa Snowdon and Brendan Cole; Foxtrot; 20/12/08 (Series 6 Final)
40/40: Lisa Snowdon and Brendan Cole; Cha Cha Cha; 20/12/08 (Series 6 Final)

Another four scored 40/40 on a Christmas Special:

40/40: Darren Gough and Lilia Kopylova; Quickstep; 24/12/2005 (2005 Christmas Special)
40/40: Colin Jackson and Erin Boag; Quickstep; 25/12/2006 (2006 Christmas Special)
40/40: Gethin Jones and Camilla Dallerup; Waltz; 25/12/2007 (2007 Christmas Special)
40/40; Darren Gough and Lilia Kopylova; American Smooth; 25/12/2007 (2007 Christmas Special)

On a further fourteen occasions, couples have received 39; usually the 9 was awarded by Craig Revel Horwood, and on the other occasions, the judge who gave a 9 is stated.

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)
39/40: Alesha Dixon and Matthew Cutler; Cha Cha Cha; 24/11/2007 (Series 5 Week 8)
39/40: Gethin Jones and Camilla Dallerup; Waltz; 1/12/2007 (Series 5 Week 9)
39/40: Alesha Dixon and Matthew Cutler; Waltz; 22/12/2007 (Series 5 Final) (9 awarded by Len Goodman)
39/40: Matt Di Angelo and Flavia Cacace; Salsa; 22/12/07 (Series 5 Final)
39/40: Rachel Stevens and Vincent Simone; Rumba; 15/11/08 (Series 6 Week 9)
39/40: Rachel Stevens and Vincent Simone; Waltz; 29/11/08 (Series 6 Week 11)
39/40: Lisa Snowdon and Brendan Cole; Foxtrot; 29/11/08 (Series 6 Week 11)
39/40: Lisa Snowdon and Brendan Cole; Waltz; 06/12/08 (Series 6 Quarter-Final)
39/40: Tom Chambers and Camilla Dallerup; Foxtrot; 06/12/08 (Series 6 Quarter-Final)
39/40: Rachel Stevens and Vincent Simone; Tango; 06/12/08 (Series 6 Quarter-Final)
39/40: Rachel Stevens and Vincent Simone; Argentine Tango; 13/12/08 (Series 6 Semi-Final)
39/40: Rachel Stevens and Vincent Simone; Rumba; 20/12/08 (Series 6 Final)

Other 39/40s have been seen in Christmas Specials:

39/40: Matt Di Angelo and Flavia Cacace; Rumba; 25/12/07 (2007 Christmas Special)
39/40: Rachel Stevens and Vincent Simone; Rumba; 25/12/08 (2008 Christmas Special)
39/40: Alesha Dixon and Matthew Cutler; Viennese Waltz; 25/12/08 (2008 Christmas Special)
39/40: Kelly Brook and Brian Fortuna; Jive; 25/12/08 (2008 Christmas Special) (9 awarded by Arlene Phillips)
39/40: Jill Halfpenny and Darren Bennett; American Smooth; 25/12/08 (2008 Christmas Special)

Lowest judges' scores

08/40: Quentin Willson and Hazel Newberry; Cha Cha Cha; 23/10/04.
11/40: Fiona Phillips and Brendan Cole; Waltz ; 15/10/05.
12/40: Diarmuid Gavin and Nicole Cutler; Cha Cha Cha; 23/10/04.
12/40: Diarmuid Gavin and Nicole Cutler; Quickstep; 30/10/04.
12/40: John Sergeant and Kristina Rihanoff; Cha Cha Cha; 08/11/08.

Highest and lowest scoring performances

The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows:

Dance	Best dancer(s)	Best score	Worst dancer(s)	Worst score
Cha Cha Cha Cha-cha-cha (dance) Cha-cha-cha is the name of a Latin American dance of Cuban origin. The name may also be spelled chachach?. It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorr?n in 1953....	Lisa Snowdon	40	Quentin Wilson	8
Jive Jive (dance) In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance....	Jill Halfpenny	40	Fiona Phillips	16
Rumba Rumba (dance) Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.First, it means Cuban event of African style, organically related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music....	Rachel Stevens/Matt Di Angelo	39	Fiona Phillips	13
Paso Doble Paso Doble Paso Doble or pasodoble is a lively style of dance to the Metre march -like pasodoble music. It actually originated in southern France , but is modeled after the sound, drama, and movement of the Spain bullfighting....	Austin Healey	38	Dennis Taylor/Christopher Parker	15
Samba	Zoe Ball	38	Christopher Parker	15
Waltz Waltz The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....	Matt Di Angelo/Gethin Jones	40	Fiona Phillips	11
Quickstep Quickstep Quickstep is an Ballroom glossary#International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot . An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep would be Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing"....	Lisa Snowdon	40	Diarmuid Gavin	12
Foxtrot	Rachel Stevens/Lisa Snowdon	40	Fiona Phillips/John Sergeant	20
Tango Tango (dance) Tango is a musical genre and its associated dance forms that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, and spread to the rest of the world soon after that....	Rachel Stevens	39	Diarmuid Gavin	14
Viennese Waltz Viennese Waltz Viennese Waltz is the genre of a ballroom dance. At least three different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in ballroom dancing, danced to the music of Viennese Waltz....	Alesha Dixon	39	Will Thorp	23
American Smooth Ballroom dance Ballroom dance refers to a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both social dance and ballroom dance#competitive dancing around the globe. Its performance dance and entertainment aspects are also widely enjoyed on Theater, in film, and on television....	Gethin Jones	38	Andrew Castle	17
Salsa Salsa (dance) Salsa is a dance for Salsa music created by Spanish language-speaking people from the Caribbean and their immigrant communities in the US. Salsa dancing mixes African and European dance influences through the music and dance fusions that are the roots of Salsa: Cuban SonGuaguanc?, Spanish Rumba, Boogaloo, Pachanga, Guaracha, Plena, Bomba, ....	Mark Ramprakash	40	Kate Garraway	18
Argentine tango Argentine tango Argentine tango may refer to:Argentine tango as a sub-style of Tango .Tango music as a musical style....	Mark Ramprakash/Rachel Stevens	39	Matt Dawson	30

Perfect tens

In addition to the twelve perfect scores listed above, judges have awarded perfect tens on a number of other occasions. Rachel Stevens and her partner Vincent Simone hold a record with the most amount with 28 followed by Alesha Dixon and Matthew Cutler with 22 and Lisa Snowdon and Brendan Cole with 21:

Series 1

Week Five: Natasha Kaplinsky/Brendan Cole from Arlene Phillips for the Samba: 37

Series 2

Week Seven: Jill Halfpenny/Darren Bennett from Arlene Phillips for the Paso Doble: 37
Final: Denise Lewis/Ian Waite from Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli for the Quickstep: 38
Final: Jill Halfpenny/Darren Bennett from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Jive: 40
Christmas Special: Denise Lewis/Ian Waite from Bruno Tonioli for the Quickstep: 37

Series 3

Week Six: Zoe Ball/Ian Waite from Bruno Tonioli for the Quickstep: 36
Week Seven: Zoe Ball/Ian Waite from Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli for the Tango: 38
Week Eight: Colin Jackson/Erin Boag from Arlene Phillips for the American Smooth: 37
Week Nine: Colin Jackson/Erin Boag from Len Goodman for the Waltz: 37
Final: Darren Gough/Lilia Kopylova from Len Goodman for the Foxtrot: 36
Final: Colin Jackson/Erin Boag from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Quickstep: 39
Final: Zoe Ball/Ian Waite from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Samba: 38
Final: Zoe Ball/Ian Waite from Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli for the Tango: 38
Christmas Special: James Martin/Camilla Dallerup from Arlene Phillips and Len Goodman for the Foxtrot: 37
Christmas Special: Zoe Ball/Ian Waite from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Foxtrot: 38
Christmas Special: Darren Gough/Lilia Kopylova from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Quickstep: 40

Series 4

Week Three: Louisa Lytton/Vincent Simone from Bruno Tonioli for the Jive: 36
Week Seven: Matt Dawson/Lilia Kopylova from Len Goodman for the Waltz: 37
Week Nine: Emma Bunton/Darren Bennett from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Waltz: 37
Week Nine: Emma Bunton/Darren Bennett from Bruno Tonioli for the Paso Doble: 37
Week Eleven: Mark Ramprakash/Karen Hardy from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Argentine Tango: 39
Final: Matt Dawson/Lilia Kopylova from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Waltz: 38
Final: Mark Ramprakash/Karen Hardy from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Salsa: 40
Christmas Special: Zoe Ball/Ian Waite from Len Goodman and Arlene Phillips for the Rumba: 38
Christmas Special: Matt Dawson/Lilia Kopylova from Len Goodman for the Waltz: 37
Christmas Special: Colin Jackson/Erin Boag From Craig Revel Horwood Arleen Phillips Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli Quickstep 40

Series 5

Week Four: Kelly Brook/Brendan Cole from Bruno Tonioli for the American Smooth: 34
Week Six: John Barnes/Nicole Cutler from Len Goodman for the Salsa: 36
Week Seven: Alesha Dixon/Matthew Cutler from Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli for the Waltz: 38
Week Eight: Matt Di Angelo/Flavia Cacace from Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli for the Salsa: 38
Week Eight: Alesha Dixon/Matthew Cutler from Arlene Phillips, Bruno Tonioli, and Len Goodman for the Cha Cha Cha: 39
Week Nine: Gethin Jones/Camilla Dallerup from Arlene Phillips, Bruno Tonioli, and Len Goodman for the Waltz: 39
Week Nine: Alesha Dixon/Matthew Cutler from Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli for the Tango: 38
Week Nine: Alesha Dixon/Matthew Cutler from Len Goodman for the Samba: 36
Week Ten: Gethin Jones/Camilla Dallerup from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the American Smooth: 38
Week Ten: Alesha Dixon/Matthew Cutler from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Viennese Waltz: 38
Week Ten: Gethin Jones/Camilla Dallerup from Bruno Tonioli for the Jive: 37
Week Eleven: Alesha Dixon/Matthew Cutler from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Quickstep: 38
Week Eleven: Gethin Jones/Camilla Dallerup from Len Goodman for the Paso Doble: 34
Week Eleven: Alesha Dixon/Matthew Cutler from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Argentine Tango: 38
Week Eleven: Matt Di Angelo/Flavia Cacace from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Waltz: 40
Final: Alesha Dixon/Matthew Cutler from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, and Bruno Tonioli for the Waltz: 39
Final: Matt Di Angelo/Flavia Cacace from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Salsa: 39
Final: Alesha Dixon/Matthew Cutler from Bruno Tonioli and Len Goodman for the Cha Cha Cha: 38
Christmas Special: Mark Ramprakash/Karen Hardy from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Jive: 38
Christmas Special: Gethin Jones/Camilla Dallerup from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Waltz: 40
Christmas Special: Matt Di Angelo/Flavia Cacace from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Rumba: 39
Christmas Special: Darren Gough/Lilia Kopylova from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the American Smooth: 40

Series 6

Week Seven: Austin Healey/Erin Boag from Len Goodman for the Quickstep: 36
Week Nine: Austin Healey/Erin Boag from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Tango: 38
Week Nine: Rachel Stevens/Vincent Simone from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Rumba: 39
Week Ten: Rachel Stevens/Vincent Simone from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Foxtrot: 40
Week Eleven: Rachel Stevens/Vincent Simone from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Waltz: 39
Week Eleven: Lisa Snowdon/Brendan Cole from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Foxtrot: 39
Week Eleven: Austin Healey/Erin Boag from Bruno Tonioli for the Foxtrot: 36
Week Eleven: Tom Chambers/Camilla Dallerup from Len Goodman for the Waltz: 35
Week Eleven: Lisa Snowdon/Brendan Cole from Bruno Tonioli for the Cha Cha Cha: 37
Week Eleven: Austin Healey/Erin Boag from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, and Bruno Tonioli for the Paso Doble: 38
Week Twelve: Lisa Snowdon/Brendan Cole from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Waltz: 39
Week Twelve: Tom Chambers/Camilla Dallerup from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman,and Bruno Tonioli for the Foxtrot: 39
Week Twelve: Rachel Stevens/Vincent Simone from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Tango: 39
Week Twelve: Austin Healey/Erin Boag from Len Goodman for the Salsa: 36
Week Twelve: Rachel Stevens/Vincent Simone from Bruno Tonioli for the Cha Cha Cha: 37
Week Thirteen: Lisa Snowdon/Brendan Cole from Len Goodman for the Argentine Tango: 35
Week Thirteen: Rachel Stevens/Vincent Simone from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Argentine Tango: 39
Week Thirteen: Lisa Snowdon/Brendan Cole from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Quickstep: 40
Week Thirteen: Rachel Stevens/Vincent Simone from Bruno Tonioli for the American Smooth: 36
Final: Rachel Stevens/Vincent Simone from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Foxtrot: 40
Final: Lisa Snowdon/Brendan Cole from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Foxtrot: 40
Final: Rachel Stevens/Vincent Simone from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Rumba: 39
Final: Tom Chambers/Camilla Dallerup from Arlene Phillips and Len Goodman for the Salsa: 38
Final: Lisa Snowdon/Brendan Cole from Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli for the Cha Cha Cha: 40
Christmas Special: Tom Chambers/Camilla Dallerup from Arlene Phillips for the Foxtrot: 37
Christmas Special: Lisa Snowdon/Brendan Cole from Bruno Tonioli for the Quickstep: 36
Christmas Special: Rachel Stevens/Vincent Simone from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Rumba: 39
Christmas Special: Alesha Dixon/Matthew Cutler from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Viennese Waltz: 39
Christmas Special: Kelly Brook/Brian Fortuna from Craig Revel Horwood, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the Jive: 39
Christmas Special: Jill Halfpenny/Darren Bennett from Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli for the American Smooth: 39

Ratings

Series	Series Première		Series Finale
Series	Date	Viewers	Date	Viewers
1	15 May 2004	4.61m	3 July 2004	9.28m
2	23 October 2004	6.54m	11 December 2004	11.60m
3	15 October 2005	7.23m	17 December 2005	10.55m
4 Strictly Come Dancing (Series 4) The fourth series of *Strictly Come Dancing* started on 7 October 2006 and ended on 23 December 2006. It was presented by Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly, and the winner was Mark Ramprakash along with his dancing partner Karen Hardy....	7 October 2006	9.23m	23 December 2006	12.11m
5 Strictly Come Dancing (Series 5) The fifth series of *Strictly Come Dancing* began on BBC One on 29 September 2007, with Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly returning as presenters....	6 October 2007	7.68m	22 December 2007	12.09m
6 Strictly Come Dancing (Series 6) The sixth series of *Strictly Come Dancing* began on BBC One on 20 September 2008, with Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly returning as presenters, and Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli returning as judges....	20 September 2008	8.48m	20 December 2008	12.21m

Awards

The show has won a highly prestigious Rose D'Or

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award for 'Best Variety Show', beating off competition from reality shows from twelve other different countries. It has also won two awards for 'Best Reality Show' at the TRIC Awards and two at the TV Quick

TV Quick

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Awards for 'Best Talent Show', beating The X Factor
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in both instances. It has also received three BAFTA nominations.

The show won the award of Most Popular Talent Show at the 2008 National Television Awards

National Television Awards

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, beating Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent

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, Dancing on Ice and The X Factor
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.

External links

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at Biogs.com

Strictly Come Dancing

Format

Coaching

Dance Off

Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two

Main series

Series 1

Judges' scoring summary

Average chart

Dances performed

Highest and lowest scoring performances

Series 2

Judges' scoring summary

Average chart

Dances performed

Highest and lowest scoring performances

Series 3

Judges' scoring summary

Average chart

Dances performed

Highest and lowest scoring performances

Series 4

Series 5

Series 6

Specials

2004 Christmas Special

2005 Christmas Special

2006 Christmas Special

2007 Christmas Special

2008 Christmas Special

The Strictly Come Dancing Story

Strictly Ice Dancing

Strictly African Dancing

The Live Tour! 2008

The Live Tour! 2009

Sport Relief Does Strictly Come Dancing

Children In Need Special 2008

The Weakest Link Special 2008

Statistics

Winners

Highest judges' scores

Lowest judges' scores

Highest and lowest scoring performances

Perfect tens

Ratings

Awards

See also

External links