Overview

• Lewis Cope and Katya Jones earned the series’ first 10 for a 37-point Paso Doble to close Movie Week.
• Ross King and Jowita Przystał finished at the foot of the leaderboard with 19 points.
• Stefan Dennis missed the live show through illness and, under Strictly rules, he and Dianne Buswell received a bye to next week.
• This series has removed telephone voting in favor of online-only ballots, and the deciding vote in tied dance-offs now rotates among the judges.
• Lewis Cope rejected ‘fix’ claims about prior professional training, saying he trained as an actor rather than as a dancer.