Overview

• Strictly announced that Dennis will not perform this weekend after doctors advised him to rest following illness in recent days.
• Under the show's rules, Dennis and his professional partner Dianne Buswell receive a medical bye to next week, with a return expected if he recovers.
• Buswell shared supportive messages calling Dennis “a trooper,” while judge Motsi Mabuse and It Takes Two’s Janette Manrara publicly sent well-wishes.
• Addressing online speculation, Buswell told followers the absence is not a cover up, said she is well during her pregnancy, and noted contingency plans exist for pros.
• The pair were slated to waltz to It Is You (I Have Loved) from Shrek for Movie Week, after scoring 17 for last week’s Cha Cha Cha and surviving the first elimination round.