Overview

• Public voting is now live exclusively online and requires a registered BBC account, replacing premium-rate phone lines.
• The first results show is scheduled for Sunday, with week-one scores carried over and any dance-off tiebreak decided by a different judge each week.
• After replacing the injured Dani Dyer, Amber Davies continued her run with partner Nikita Kuzmin and improved to 29 points for her week-two Samba from 27 last week.
• Vicky Pattison scored 24 for her Foxtrot and drew encouraging feedback, with Shirley Ballas saying she could 'possibly, maybe' go all the way.
• It Takes Two introduced former finalist Tasha Ghouri as a new roaming reporter, expanding backstage coverage for the 2025 series.