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…

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.

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?

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…

After the rush of experiencing the first competitive show of the season, we thought it might be fun to do a podcast and share our reflections and predictions.

It is often said that ‘a week is a long time in politics’, but the same can be true in the world of Strictly Come Dancing.  Angela & Carlos became only the twelfth partnership to be eliminated from the show one week after receiving a ‘ten’ from the judging panel.

In this week’s blog we look back at each of the other eleven partnerships who suffered this fate.

Last weekend, Angela Rippon & Kai became the 23rd Strictly partnership to win a dance-off in successive weeks.

In this blog we look back on what happened to the other duos who previously accomplished this feat.

Here we look at the ‘danger data’ (overall bottom 2 and elimination placements) for the seven dance styles being performed for Halloween Week 2023. Which dance styles are more ‘trick’ than ‘treat’?

We’ve all heard about the ‘curse of the Rumba’ or the ‘challenge of the Cha Cha Cha’ but are these really the dances that spell danger for couples? We’ve analysed the data to find out… one dance definitely tops the danger list but it might not be the one you expect…