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Strictly Come Dancing Semi Final week 10 Strictly Come Dancing reaches the semi final stage this week, with each couple dancing twice and a double elimination. Harry & Aliona are first onto the floor with their Charleston. It looks as though they’ve been having fun in training but will it translate to the performance ? [...]

Strictly Come Dancing | The final will be 3D live in cinemas You may already know that the Strictly Come Dancing final on 17th December will be broadcast in 3D on the BBC HD Channel - a first for Strictly. Not everyone has a 3D enabled television (in fact, not many people do!) and so the show will [...]

Strictly Come Dancing | Movie week results (week 10) Is there a better dance to get you in the swing of things that the Charleston ? The Strictly pro dancers lark their way through a sepia tinted routine packed with tricks and spills. Oh Lord. Tess has wrapped herself in too-short gold lame and tottering [...]

Strictly Come Dancing | Movie week 10 Saturday night at the movies…. with the Strictly pros. Vincent hamming it up, Len serving the popcorn; perfect Saturday night entertainment. Tess & Bruce have a red carpet, as the camera pans on the celebrities in the audience, including last year’s Champion Kara Tointon. As you can see [...]

Strictly New Year with Russell Grant Russell Grant gets the New Year vibe under way on Radio 2 with a sizzling Strictly-themed extravaganza. He’s joined in the studio by foxy Flavia Cacace as the two of them relive their favourite musical moments from the hit BBC One TV show. Russell says: “Music is in my [...]

Strictly Come Dancing week 9 – the results Last night saw the celebrities trying to raise their game as the competition speeds towards the final.  It wasn’t entirely successful.  Harry and Aliona danced a great Quickstep but Holly and Artem struggled with Holly’s innate reticence which is gradually impeding her chances of reaching the final [...]

Strictly Come Dancing week 9 It seems to be taking forever and a day for this series of Strictly to lift-off. The vastness of Wembley last week served only to highlight the yawning gap between the quality of this series and some of those from earlier years at this stage in the competition.  Bigger is not necessarily [...]

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Day Special Strictly quicksteps back to bring a sprinkling of festive sparkle to your Christmas day. Five new twinkling stars will don their sequins and dust off their dancing shoes in the hope of delivering a Christmas treat. The five-star line-up will bring together stars of stage and screen, sport and [...]

Strictly Come Dancing results | Wembley week 8   Last night’s Strictly Come Dancing show came live from Wembley Arena, and now it’s time to see who has been voted off. But first…… Not one but two glorious Mini’s decked out in Union Jacks take pride of place on the stage, as a Beatles medley plays and [...]

Strictly Come Dancing | Wembley Week 8  So, here we are.  Wembley. Appropriately, the Strictly pros open the show with We Will Rock You, Radio GaGa etc in a Queen medley. Even the judges have a cameo appearance. There are silk walkers high above the stage and a raised dias, but the space still looks [...]