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.

It’s Week 2 of our Predictions game where we predict who will be top and bottom of Saturday’s leaderboard plus who will get the Strictly shove.

There’s extra sparkle today as we discuss who could shine or stumble in Movie Week (although Steve didn’t even know Week 3 of Strictly means we’re all at the movies!)

As Sunday’s show came to a controversial close, we took time to reflect on how we did with our predictions. Little did we realise the controversy had only just begun…

It’s nearly time for Week 1 and the hot topic of debate here at StrictlyDB is our first Strictly leaderboard of the season. More specifically, who is destined to shimmy to the top and who will stumble to the bottom with a flop. So for a bit of fun we thought we’d share our thoughts….

First routines on Strictly have ranged from the sublime (Zoe Ball & Ian scoring 35 in Series 3) to the ridiculous (Quentin Wilson & Hazel scoring 8 in Series 2).

In this week’s blog, we crunch the numbers to see which specific scores for a ‘first routine’ have most often been the precursor to an eventual place in the Final.

“Fantasy Strictly Come Dancing” (FSCD) is back, launching recently for players to join the game for Series 22! Jump on in and join the fun!

As a Christmas Eve present to you, in this week’s blog (our final for this year) we look back at the ten professional dancers have who achieved the highest average score from routines performed in Christmas Specials.

That’s a wrap for Series 21 and as we sign off here are 7 fab-u-lous and noteworthy facts and stats from last night’s Final.

See you same time and place next year (or before if you are enjoying our daily Advent Calendar and Quiz Question) and thanks as always for reading!