Strictly Come Dancing: week one – as it happened

Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell’s Beatles-soundtracked cha cha cha. Photograph: Guy Levy/BBC/PA

10.03pm BST

Thank you and a glittery goodnight

Lovely to have Strictly properly back, isn’t it? The Great Unpleasantness is already partly forgotten.

We’ll be back here for the first elimination weekend, which kicks off at the earlier time of 6.15pm next Saturday. I hope you’ll rejoin me then. In the meantime, I’m @michaelhogan on Twitter, so do waltz on over and give me a camp wave.

Thanks for watching along with me and your excellent contributions as always. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, sofa sparklies. And you know the drill: keeeeeep dancing! Ta-ra for now.

10.02pm BST

Our Canadian correspondent writes

An email just in from regular reader in Montreal, Iain Crofts: “Loved your Strictly blog last year and delighted to find it again. Enjoying reading your live comments in anticipation of the clips that the BBC lets us unwashed foreigners watch after the event.

Not being able to watch the show live, I don’t know if anything in Shirley’s demeanour prompted your question, ‘Hands up if you thought she was going to mention The Great Unpleasantness for a minute there’, but my money is on it gong resolutely unmentioned throughout the series.

Losing one Italian pro could be an accident. Two could seem like carelessness. To avoid escalation, should the BBC appoint an Italophobia Czar to make sure nothing happens to Vito?”