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.

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.

On Saturday night, Karen Hauer will become the first female professional dancer on Strictly (and only the third in total, after Brendan and Anton) to reach the milestone of performing one hundred routines with a celebrity partner on the show.

In celebration of this impressive accomplishment, let’s take a look back at some of Karen’s most memorable routines on the show.

Craig was visibly moved by Layton & Nikita’s showstopping Charleston last night and said it was the best one he had seen on the show in 20 years.

Here to enjoy are Strictly’s 12 perfect Charlestons – do you agree with Craig?

The last two weeks have seen back-to-back Salsa success at the top of the leaderboard for the first time on Strictly. This is great news for Layton & Nikita and Ellie & Vito as the data suggests this might be a good omen for getting all the way to the Final…

In anticipation of Series 21, we take a look back to December 2020 when Covid scuppered the usual Strictly Christmas Special, and instead a show was broadcast counting down the top 25 most memorable routines in Strictly history to that point, which had been voted for online by the public.