Strictly Come Dancing live: Dance competition prepares for spooky Halloween week

In prime time TV crossover, celebrity traitor Star Cat Burns is ready to appear strictly This week.

Singer, best known for her single “Go” and her UK top 10 album early twenties Will perform with a professional couple on Sunday’s results show.

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If you need a reminder of last week’s scores, here’s the leaderboard from Contest of Icons Week:

Lewis Cope and Katya Jones: 9 + 9 + 8 + 8 = 34

Vicky Pattison and Kai Widdington: 8 + 8 + 8 + 9 = 33

Amber Davis and Nikita Kuzmin: 8 + 8 + 8 + 9 = 33

Alex Kingston and Johannes Radebe: 7 + 8 + 8 + 9 = 32

Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Karen Hauer: 6 + 9 + 7 + 8 = 30

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Lauren Oakley: 7 + 8 + 7 + 8 = 30

Karen Carney and Carlos Gu: 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 = 28

Ellie Goldstein and Vito Coppola: 6 +8 + 7 + 7 =28

Balvinder Sopal and Julian Caillon: 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 = 28

La Voix and Aljaž Skorjanec: 6 + 7 + 7 + 8 = 28

George Clarke and Alexis Warr: 6 + 7 + 6 + 8 = 27

Here’s who’s dancing to whom for Halloween week of competition:

• Alex & Johannes – “Horny” from Salsa by Moose T. Hot ‘n’ Juicy

• “I See Red” by Everybody Loves an Outlaw by Amber & Nikita – Viennese Waltz.

• Balwinder & Julian – Samba to “Stay” by Shakespeare Sister

• Ellie & Vito – “Abracadabra” from Tango by Lady Gaga.

• George & Alexis – Cha Cha Cha from “Apple” by Charli XCX

• Harry & Karen – American Smooth to “Mystical Magical” by Benson Boone.

• Karen & Carlos – “Red Right Hand” from Argentine Tango by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.

• La Voix and Aljaz – from Paso Doble to Beethoven’s 5th

• Lewis & Katya – duet choice “Creep” by Radiohead.

• Vicky and Kai – American Smooth to “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler.

strictly Presenters Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly did not wear Halloween costumes on the programme, because Winkleman’s daughter Matilda, aged eight, was caught in a fire while wearing a costume while trick-or-treating in west London.

Winkleman previously told the BBC’s Watchdog in 2017: “I don’t like Halloween since three years ago it was discovered that our screams were real.

“She ‘went up’ is the only way I can describe it – it was a spark, and she screamed for me. It was like those horrible birthday candles that you blow out and they come back on. It was really loud, it wasn’t fire like I had seen.”

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Former Strictly contestant Joe Sugg has said Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly’s shock exit announcement was made “rushed” due to media pressure.

Suggs, who competed on the show with her real-life partner in 2018 diane buswellsaid in a new YouTube video that the two may have pushed their announcement forward to get ahead of a news outlet break the story to them,

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zoe ball accepted on that Digg it Podcast Episodes She’ll Love with Joe Waite strictly Presentation.

The BBC Radio 2 broadcaster praised the dance competition for “bringing so much joy into people’s lives”, saying, “I think everyone would want to do that thing.”

He added, “Everyone will want that job. There will be lines around the block.”

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