Blackpool Tower Ballroom beckons
Thanks for watching along with me, everyone. Maxi-fun, megalolz and most entertaining as always.
Our eight surviving pairs now progress to the eighth live show, bidding to make it through to Blackpool the following week. It airs next Saturday at the earlier time of 6.05pm on BBC1 - moved forward an hour due to the Royal British Legion Festival Of Remembrance.
Meet you back here to spot the sticky-up thumbs, sticky-out bums and spatulistic hands. In the meantime, you know the score: keeeeeeep dancing! Goodnight, gang.
Was Angela Rippon lucky?
Possibly a bit. She might also have had more credit in the bank with the judges, as it were. Angela averages 30.1 points so far this series, the fifth highest. By comparison, Adam’s average is 27.3, the second lowest of the remaining contestants.
Sure, that shouldn’t enter the equation. The judges are supposed to decide based on the dance-off alone and pride themselves on doing so. But it would be only human for such considerations to hover in the back of their minds.
As the judges suggested last night, her pro partner Kai Widdrington might now need to take a few more risks and push the choreography further if they’re going to make it to the fabled Tower Ballroom.
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