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.

In this episode the team share some frightening facts and scary stats about Strictly Halloween night, play a ghoulish game and of course make their paranormal predictions for this weekend’s leaderboard and elimination.

Not a bad scoring week for the team, and we were delighted to celebrate our second ‘Perfect Score’ as James called everything correctly and scored a perfect 8 (3 for top, 3 for bottom, 1 for elimination and 1 bonus for getting everything correct).

The StrictlyDB team are back again to review what we thought of last week’s episode (week 4) and play our predictions game (for week 5). Who will be top and bottom of the this Saturday’s leaderboard and who will be eliminated on Sunday?

We’ve had our own predictions game leaderboard shake-up here at StrictlyDB after Week 4,  and Steve, who’s feeling sabotaged by the new T.A.S.H.A rule, is not happy…

The StrictlyDB team are back for another podcast! In the show we review what we thought of last week’s episode and play our predictions game. Come and join in the fun!

Steve, our developer, who has never seen a show storms even further into the lead on our Strictly Predictions leaderboard this week (even though he had no idea it was Movie Week!)

Is it beginner’s luck or can his winning streak continue into Week 4?

Although a minority, male pros and female celebrities have held most of the two top spots on the judges’ leaderboards so far in 2024. This reflects a wider trend in which male pros dominate on almost every performance metric.

However, female pros win overall when it comes to Strictly’s most important statistic, and we think they can add to their tally in 2024.

Nick & Luba’s American Smooth last week was the 2,500th ‘scored’ routine on Strictly (not including the ‘non-scored’ Showdance routines from Series 2-6 or the ‘a-thons’).

To celebrate this landmark, in this week’s blog we look at some previous milestone performances on the show.