By scoring 40 for her American Smooth, Tasha becomes the seventh celebrity to achieve a perfect score for this dance style, and only the third to do so before a Final.

Interestingly, previous perfect routines have not always had perfect outcomes for the celebs who performed them.

Was Pete pretty in pink? Did Montell need those plimsolls? Should we have dance-ups not dance offs? Could we see our first mankini? Find answers to these, and other big Strictly questions, in the latest episode…

Blackpool proved a highlight for half the team – with Matt and James both picking up the maximum 8 points for correct predictions all round, but risky selections from both Liv and Steve proved costly yet again!

Was Sarah underscored? Has Pete used up his nine lives? Should there be a dance ball lottery? Find out in the latest show…

Proving that data isn’t always helpful to the mystical soothsaying that is Strictly leaderboard predictions, a set of somewhat topsy-turvy results saw James and Liv’s tip for top (Jamie) floundering at the bottom for the first time (should there be a point deduction for that outcome 😉) and no-one picking up any points for their ‘top’ predictions at all!

Is Vito set to be an all time great? Where’s our 20th birthday party? Is it time to bring back Bruno, Brendan and James Jordan? Are we set to see our first couple ‘dancing in the dark’ with a bejewelled blindfold? Find out in our latest podcast…

Week 7 marks the near midpoint of a Strictly series which must mean it’s time for our annual quick stats and facts review.

Here we explore six facts and stats from the first seven weeks of the show – some you may know, others you may not and one or two will probably surprise you, as they did us!

We felt confident before the show about the top of Saturday’s leaderboard but less so about the bottom and elimination – and none of us saw the shocker that was Sam going home.

The team are back to talk all things Strictly, reviewing Halloween week and making predictions for Icons week. Never shy to ask the tough questions, the team ponder ‘Are tens coming too easily’, ‘Will Jamie be in shorts again?’, ‘Are Swifties bad at Strictly?’ and ‘Who will Carlos appear as next?’.

It was the hardest week to call so far, and things are definitely getting interesting on the StrictlyDB predictions game leaderboard as Matt goes from zero to hero – a bit like Pete in the ballroom.