Key occasions
Open your creaking coffin lids and lurch out into the moonlight, cackling in a sinister method. We’re about to go reside to the Elstree Studios ballroom…
Alan Carr’s Image Slam simply reaching its bifocal climax on BBC1 now. It’s sufficient to make you pine for the great ole days of Pointless Celebrities.
Not lengthy now, fancy footwork followers…
Icons Week is the prize
Tonight’s {couples} are bidding to make it by to Strictly’s first ever Icons Week subsequent Saturday, when routines will rejoice “music icons throughout the a long time”.
Let’s hope it’s extra of successful than Round The World Week a decade in the past (keep in mind that?). Ten minutes till the chilling church bell tolls…
BBC fancy costume field raided
We are able to sit up for the standard outlandish costumes and theming overload tonight. Our {couples} can be channelling the Addams household, the Rocky Horror Image Present, and the Joker and Harley Quinn, alongside an entire gamut of ghostly randomness.
Dig out your animal ears as a result of it’ll be like a Imply Ladies costume celebration in that ballroom. So fetch. A mere quarter-hour till trick-or-treat time…
Bwa-ha-ha, it’s Halloween horror present bingo
Tick them off after they occur on-screen! Take a drink for every! Find yourself apple-bobbing with a bolt by your neck and clown make-up you may’t keep in mind making use of! Right here’s your 10-point spotter’s information for tonight:
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Each VT has a hammed-up horror movie theme
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Judges wield pumpkin or ghost-shaped scoring paddles
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Somebody begins their routine by climbing out of a coffin, giving us Nancy Dell’Olio flashbacks
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Halloween prop overload means an excessive amount of “messin’ abaht” and dances take ages to get going
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Routine “enhanced” and “augmented” by shonky CGI creatures
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Somebody has a disembodied hand on their shoulder
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Craig describes a dodgy dance as “a horror present, darling”
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Somebody’s face is painted inexperienced and the make-up transfers to their companion’s cheek throughout the dance
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Band chief Dave Arch is dressed as a baton-wielding werewolf or vampire
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The manufacturing crew’s names are “spookified” with Halloween puns on the top credit
In your dance playing cards tonight
Tonight sees probably the most different hoofing repertoire of the collection to date, with 10 totally different dance types on show. The one overlap is 2 sambas (from Chris McCausland and Tasha Ghouri). Most excitingly of all, we’ll be handled to the primary Argentine tango of the collection, courtesy of Sarah Hadland and Vito Coppola.
Twenty minutes till the witching hour…
Slot of doom or dance of loss of life?
Primarily based on the 2024 collection to date, being on first and performing a samba might show deadly. Thrice in 4 weeks, the couple who danced first on Saturday night time went on to look in Sunday’s dance-off (this destiny has befallen Tom Dean, Shayne Ward and JB Gill).
In the meantime, two of the 4 eradicated {couples} went out on a samba (particularly Toyah Willcox and Paul Merson).
Regulate the working order tonight for potential portents. It’s 25 minutes to creepy kick-off…
Fifth elimination looms
Media medic Dr Punam Krishan is the bookies’ sturdy favorite for elimination this weekend, having languished close to the underside of the scoreboard each week however one. She additionally has the bottom common rating of any surviving celeb.
However will tonight’s scoring paddles and the general public vote go in response to type? Sam Quek and Pete Wicks are the subsequent most generally tipped for the exit door. May Halloween characterisation assist them to security? Lower than half an hour till we get our first choreographic clues…
A spooky Strictly milestone
Twinkle-toed trick or technical deal with? Good night and welcome to week six of Strictly Come Dancing 2024. I’m Michael, your undead dance companion for tonight’s annual spooktacular – this 12 months’s second themed present and one other milestone on the street to glittery glory. I’d love you to look at together with me as our pro-celebrity pairs carry out Halloween-themed routines. It guarantees to be a scream.
Final week noticed extra good 10s, this time for Montell Douglas and Jamie Borthwick, whereas dad-dancing footballer Paul Merson was given the pink card.
Our surviving 11 pro-celebrity pairs now don phantasmagorical fancy costume and hit the Elstree dancefloor as soon as once more, bidding to make it to the competition’s halfway mark subsequent weekend. As per regular, tonight’s scores can be mixed with the general public vote. The 2 lowest-ranked {couples} will hoof once more for survival on Sunday night time.
Who’ll fall sufferer to fright night time and fall wanting the midway level? Dr Puman Krishanappears in probably the most hazard. Sam Quek and Pete Wicks is also susceptible, whereas Shayne Ward and JB Gill have made shock appearances within the dance-off in latest weeks. Amid the Halloween frenzy, it’s all to hoof for.
It’s spooky showtime at 6.25pm on BBC One. I’ll be liveblogging from 5.55pm, offering build-up, rolling protection, evaluation, response and pumpkin-spiced asides. So pour a effervescent chalice of magic potion, refill on skull-shaped snacks and I’ll see you on the cobweb-draped couch.
As at all times, I’d like to hear from you too. You’ll be able to tweet me @michaelhogan, e mail me [email protected] and the feedback part under is open for ghoulish gossip. I’ll zombie-shuffle down there from time-to-time to eavesdrop and report in your reactions.
Somebody’s Halloween is ready to be a horror present. Practically time to staaaart spooky dancing!