Overview
- The week-two live show airs at 6:20pm on Saturday, October 4 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
- The first results show is scheduled for Sunday at 7:15pm, with the deciding vote in any dance-off rotating among the judges instead of defaulting to the head judge.
- The BBC has ended premium-rate phone voting and moved audience participation to the Strictly website for this series.
- Producers published the full slate of week-two songs and dances, spanning jive, cha cha, tango, Viennese waltz, paso doble and more.
- Week one left Karen Carney and Carlos Gu top of the standings and Ross King and Jowita Przystal bottom, as Amy Dowden says she will dance despite illness and Amber Davies celebrates her birthday.