Strictly Come Dancing (Series 5)

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Strictly Come Dancing (Series 5)

The fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom dance and Latin dancing dances....
began on BBC One

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 ....
on 29 September 2007, with 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....
returning as presenters.

The first programme was a catch-up show and preview to the new series, before the start of the competition on 6 October. The show ran for 12 weeks, up to 22 December. The show featured 14 new celebrities, who had been paired with 14 professional dancers. In a change to the previous format, the results show was on Sunday, rather than later on Saturday.

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BBC One

Bruce Forsyth

Tess Daly

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 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....
.

The show

For more information, see the main article
Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom dance and Latin dancing dances....
.

Each show works in a similar way. The couples will, in turn, perform their dance for the judges, the audience and the public. The judges (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

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 Bruno Tonioli

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....
) then review their performance, and give them a score out of ten.

When all the couples have danced, they are inserted onto the leader board, where the highest ranked couple will get the highest amount of points available, and the lowest ranked couple getting one point. However, the judges' score only counts for 50% of the total score, and the public get to choose the remaining 50% of the vote by calling in.

In a change to the format, the two couples with the lowest score will have to perform a dance-off on the results show. From week nine, the couple will dance their highest scoring dance in the dance-off. The judges will decide (based on that performance alone) which couple should stay and which couple should leave. In the event of a 50/50 split, Len (as head judge) will decide which couple should leave the show.

Couples

This year there were 14 couples: 7 male celebrities and 7 female celebrities. They were:

Celebrity	Occupation	Professional partner	Status
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 ....	Actor	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....	Eliminated 1^st (Men Round)
Stephanie Beacham Stephanie Beacham Stephanie Beacham is an England actor....	Actress	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....	Eliminated 2^nd (Women Round)
Willie Thorne Willie Thorne William Joseph Thorne , best known as Willie Thorne, is a former English people professional snooker player and now a Sportscaster....	Snooker professional	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....	Eliminated 3^rd
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....	Sports presenter	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....	Eliminated 4^th
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....	Television presenter	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....	Eliminated 5^th
Penny Lancaster 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 ....	Model and photographer	Ian Waite Ian Waite Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer....	Eliminated 6^th
Kate Garraway Kate Garraway Kathryn Mary Garraway is an England journalist and currently a co-presenter on GMTV....	GMTV GMTV GMTV is the national ITV breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom. It is owned by GMTV Ltd, comprising ITV plc and The Walt Disney Company .... presenter	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....	Eliminated 7^th
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....	Football player	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....	Eliminated 8^th
Kelly Brook Kelly Brook Kelly Brook is an English model, actor, occasional swimsuit designer and television presenter....	Actress and model	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
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....	Rugby Rugby union Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league.... player	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....	Eliminated 9^th
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....	Actress	Darren Bennett Darren Bennett Darren Bennett may refer to:Darren Bennett , former Australian rules football player and American football punter in the NFLDarren Bennett , professional Latin ballroom dancer...	Eliminated 10^th
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....	Presenter	Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup is a British based Danish ballroom dancing....	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....	Actor	Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace is an English professional dancer. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone....	Runner-Up
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....	Singer	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....	Winner

Judges' scores

Red numbers indicate the couples with the lowest score for each week.

Green numbers indicate the couples with the highest score for each week.

indicates the couples eliminated that week.

indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom two.

indicates the winning couple.

indicates the runner-up couple.

indicates the couple withdrew from the competition.

Team	Place	W1	W2	W3	W4	W5	W6	W7	W8	W9	W10	S Final	Final
Alesha & Matthew	1	—	31	36	33	36	35	38	39	38+36=74	38+36=74	38+38=76	39+38+35=112
Matt & Flavia	2	23	—	30	36	31	29	34	38	32+33=65	26+29=55	35+40=75	36+39+35=110
Gethin & Camilla	3	22	—	29	26	31	36	31	34	39+35=74	38+37=75	34+36=70
Letitia & Darren	4	—	23	27	31	31	25	34	32	30+26=56	35+30=65
Kenny & Ola	5	21	—	25	18	21	26	22	30	30+23=53
Kelly & Brendan	6	—	33	35	34	28	36	36	29	WD
John & Nicole	7	26	—	27	22	24	36	28	27
Kate & Anton	8	—	15	19	16	26	18	21
Penny & Ian	9	—	33	25	32	35	25
Dominic & Lilia	10	25	—	25	26	25
Gabby & James	11	—	29	31	30
Willie & Erin	12	24	—	23
Stephanie & Vincent	13	—	24
Brian & Karen	14	18

Source:

Additional information

Kate Garraway
Kate Garraway

Kathryn Mary Garraway is an England journalist and currently a co-presenter on GMTV....
, was injured whilst training before the first live show, forcing her to stop training while she recovered. She did not take part in the group dance performed by the female celebrities in the first week of the show, but was able to compete from week two onwards.
As in the previous series, the male celebrity couples danced for the judges in the first week of the competition, while the female celebrity couples performed an unmarked group dance. This was reversed in week 2, and from week 3 onwards, all couples competed against each other.
In week 4 of the competition, judge Bruno Tonioli awarded the first 10-point score of the series to an American Smooth performed by Kelly Brook and Brendan Cole. However, this drew criticism from the other judges, as the routine included an illegal lift.
In week 9, Kelly Brook officially announced that she had withdrawn from the competition following the death of her father at the beginning of the week.

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....
Alesha Dixon 39 Gethin Jones/Kenny Logan 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....
Gethin Jones 37 Dominic Littlewood/Penny Lancaster 25
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....
Kelly Brook/Matt Di Angelo 33 Letitia Dean/Kenny Logan 23
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....
Alesha Dixon 36 Kenny Logan/Kate Garraway 21
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....
Alesha Dixon 36 Kate Garraway 16
Waltz
Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom dance and folk dance dance in Time signature, performed primarily in closed position....
Matt Di Angelo 40 Brian Capron 18
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"....
Alesha Dixon 38 Kate Garraway 15
Foxtrot Alesha Dixon 36 John Barnes 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....
Alesha Dixon 38 Kate Garraway 19
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 38 Kenny Logan 26
American Smooth Gethin Jones 38 John Barnes 22
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, ....
Matt Di Angelo 39 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....
Alesha Dixon 38 Matt Di Angelo 35

Guide to dances

The following table shows which dance each couple does and the order of elimination:

     This couple chose to withdraw due to external circumstances.

     This couple was in the bottom two when the judges' score was added to the public vote.

     This couple left the competition when the judges voted them out after the dance-off.

     This couple finished in second.

     This couple won the competition.

Contestants Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Finals
Week 12
Alesha & Matthew Group Swing Rumba Jive American Smooth Foxtrot Salsa Waltz Cha-Cha-Cha Tango, Samba Viennese Waltz, Paso Doble Quickstep, Argentine Tango Waltz, Cha Cha, Jive
Matt & Flavia Cha-Cha-Cha Group Merengue Jive American Smooth Paso Doble Viennese Waltz Quickstep Salsa Tango, Rumba Foxtrot, Samba Argentine Tango, Waltz American Smooth, Salsa, Quickstep
Gethin & Camilla Cha-Cha-Cha Group Merengue Tango Samba Foxtrot Viennese Waltz Rumba Quickstep Waltz, Salsa American Smooth, Jive Paso Doble, Argentine Tango
Letitia & Darren Group Swing Rumba Tango American Smooth Paso Doble Salsa Foxtrot Viennese Waltz Quickstep, Cha-Cha-Cha Waltz, Jive
Kenny & Ola Waltz Group Merengue Tango Samba Paso Doble Viennese Waltz Cha-Cha-Cha American Smooth Foxtrot, Rumba
Kelly & Brendan Group Swing Rumba Tango American Smooth Paso Doble Viennese Waltz Jive Samba Withdrew
John & Nicole Cha-Cha-Cha Group Merengue Jive American Smooth Foxtrot Salsa Tango Samba
Kate & Anton Injured Quickstep Tango Samba Foxtrot Salsa Paso Doble
Penny & Ian Group Swing Quickstep Jive Samba Foxtrot Salsa
Dominic & Lilia Cha-Cha-Cha Group Merengue Jive American Smooth Paso Doble
Gabby & James Group Swing Quickstep Jive Samba
Willie & Erin Waltz Group Merengue Tango
Stephanie & Vincent Group Swing Quickstep
Brian & Karen Waltz

Dances by week

Week 1: Male celebrities perform a Cha-Cha-Cha or Waltz. The female celebrities perform a group Swing Dance.*
Week 2: Female celebrities perform a Quickstep or Rumba. The male celebrities perform a Merengue.
Week 3: The remaining celebrities perform either a Tango or Jive.
Week 4: The remaining celebrities perform either an American Smooth or Samba.
Week 5: The remaining celebrities perform either a Foxtrot or Paso Doble.
Week 6: The remaining celebrities perform either a Viennese Waltz or Salsa. The remaining celebrities also participated in a Group Jitterbug for Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day – also known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day – is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times of war, specifically since the World War I....
Week 7: The remaining celebrities perform an unlearned dance from Week 1-Week 6.
Week 8: The remaining celebrities perform an unlearned dance from Week 1-Week 6. The remaining celebrities participated in a Group Dirty Dancing, for the anniversary of movie legend, Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing is a 1987 in film romance film. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed byEmile Ardolino, the film features Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes, and Jerry Orbach....
.
Week 9: The remaining celebrities perform two unlearned dances, one Latin and one Ballroom, from Week 1-Week 6.
Week 10: The remaining celebrities perform two unlearned dances, one Latin and one Ballroom, from Week 1-Week 6.
Week 11: The remaining celebrities perform their remaining unlearned dance from Week 1-Week 6 and also an Argentine Tango.
Week 12: The two/three* finalists perform their favourite Ballroom Dance, their favourite Latin dance, a group Viennese Waltz, a Judge's choice of music dance and finally a Freestyle.

Kate Garraway was unable to participate in the group Swing Dance due to being injured.
Strictly's final is supposed to have three finalists but in the past two years celebrities have had to drop out of the series, including John Sergeant
John Sergeant

John Sergeant is the name of:* John Sergeant , English journalist and broadcaster* John Sergeant , American politician* John Sergeant , Roman Catholic priest and writer...
, Kelly Brook
Kelly Brook

Kelly Brook is an English model, actor, occasional swimsuit designer and television presenter....
, and 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....
, meaning there are only two finalists.

Professionals' Favourite Dance

During the series, eliminated professional dancers appeared on It Takes Two
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two

Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two is a United Kingdom television programme, the companion show to the popular BBC One programme Strictly Come Dancing....
to nominate their favourite routines of the series. 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....
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 chose routines performed by their professional dance partners and their respective celebrities.

Nicole Cutler - Alesha & Matthew's Cha Cha Cha
Ian Waite - Alesha & Matthew's Waltz
Darren Bennett - Gabby & James's Samba
Vincent Simone - Matt & Flavia's Salsa
Karen Hardy - John & Nicole's Salsa
Ola Jordan - Letitia & Darren's Paso Doble

Average Chart

Rank by average	Competition finish	Couple	Total	Number of dances	Average
1	1	Alesha & Matthew	584	16	36.5
2	6	Kelly & Brendan	231	7	33.0
3	2	Matt & Flavia	526	16	32.9
3	3	Gethin & Camilla	428	13	32.9
5	9	Penny & Ian	150	5	30.0
5	11	Gabby & James	90	3	30.0
7	4	Letitia & Darren	324	11	29.5
8	7	John & Nicole	190	7	27.1
9	10	Dominic & Lilia	101	4	25.3
10	13	Stephanie & Vincent	24	1	24.0
10	5	Kenny & Ola	216	9	24.0
12	12	Willie & Erin	47	2	23.5
13	8	Kate & Anton	115	6	19.2
14	14	Brian & Karen	18	1	18.0