Strictly Come Dancing: week seven results – as it happened

Nikita Kuzmin and Sam Quek. Photograph: Guy Levy/PA

9.20pm GMT

Back to normality next week

Thanks for watching along with me, everyone. You’re pretty iconic yourselves. Our nifty nine pairings have made it into the contest’s home stretch and now progress to the mercifully un-themed eighth live show, bidding to get through to Blackpool the following week.

It airs next Saturday at 6.35pm on BBC1. Meet you back here to see who’s sizzling and who’s fizzling. In the meantime, you don’t need me to tell you: keeeeeeep dancing! Have a lovely week. Goodnight all.

8.12pm GMT

DGPHOK says: “Couples Choice is not ballroom or Latin. It seems to be a bye to the next week. Liked both dance off contestants, such a shame.”

Belette adds: “You absolutely have to buy in to it being a popularity contest, so if you’ve in a soap or a ‘reality’ TV show you always stand a good chance. No other reason why Pete Wicks’ salsa that wasn’t really a salsa which, bless him, he knew he’d made shed loads of mistakes in and looked bereft at the end, scored rightly the lowest but wasn’t in the dance off. It’s never been a dance competition.”