Overview
- Lewis Cope and Katya Jones scored the series’ first 40 with a Halloween Couple’s Choice to Radiohead’s Creep that featured tap, drawing raves from all four judges.
- Karen Carney and Carlos Gu earned 38 for an Argentine tango, with Amber Davies and Nikita Kuzmin, La Voix and Aljaž Škorjanec, and Alex Kingston and Johannes Radebe on 35, while Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Karen Hauer were lowest on 26.
- Viewers highlighted boos for Craig Revel Horwood during critiques and questioned some judging calls on social media during the live show.
- An on-air moment saw La Voix read the autocue to introduce her own routine when Tess Daly was briefly off-camera, which the broadcast then played for laughs.
- Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman again avoided Halloween costumes, a stance tied to Winkleman’s daughter’s 2014 burns, and bookmakers had Balvinder Sopal as a leading elimination risk ahead of Sunday’s results.