Overview
- Sunday’s results show confirmed former England winger Shaun Wright-Phillips and professional Alexis Warr as the fourth couple eliminated after judges were split and Anton Du Beke used the casting vote to save Jaime Winstone and Carlos Gu.
- In the dance-off the pairs repeated their routines, with Wright-Phillips and Warr reprising their jive to “Faith” and Winstone and Gu performing their foxtrot to “Man I Need,” and two judges voted to save Winstone and Gu while head judge Shirley Ballas voted to save Wright-Phillips and Warr.
- Producers announced the programme’s first-ever triple dance-off for the Halloween results show, meaning the three couples with the lowest combined judges’ scores and public votes will dance again and the judges will eliminate one pair before normal two-couple dance-offs resume.
- Saturday’s live show also featured a corrected on-screen scoring error for Lacey Turner and Vito Coppola and the return of Delta Goodrem from a rib injury to earn the series’ first 10s, details that have fed wider viewer concern about production accuracy and transparency.
- The announcement increases the judges’ short-term influence over eliminations and comes as coverage notes falling overnight viewing figures and unconfirmed media reports about host changes that the BBC has described as speculation.