In this episode the team share some frightening facts and scary stats about Strictly Halloween night, play a ghoulish game and of course make their paranormal predictions for this weekend’s leaderboard and elimination.

With some miserable winter weather hitting the UK, I thought that for this week’s blog I would offer a little bit of ‘Strictly sparkle’, by highlighting some of my favourite Strictly routines that have featured colourful face paint.

Happy Strictly Halloween everybody! A terrifying ‘trick’ here where we look at the 6 partnerships who received their lowest score of the Series in Halloween week. Look out for Part 1, where we’ll share the more ‘tantalising’ Halloween dances that saw couples earning their highest score.

Happy Strictly Halloween Eve everybody! A tantalising ‘treat’ here where we look at the 9 partnerships who achieved their highest score of the Series at Halloween week. Look out for Part 2, where we’ll share the more ‘tricksome’ Halloween dances that saw couples earning their lowest score. Enjoy!

Here we look at the ‘danger data’ (overall bottom 2 and elimination placements) for the seven dance styles being performed for Halloween Week 2023. Which dance styles are more ‘trick’ than ‘treat’?

The answer is ‘Probably not’ but for a little bit of fiendish fun, we’ve checked how past performances of this week’s Halloween dances have scored with the judges in previous spooky specials.

Saturday night brings the twelfth Halloween Week Special to the Strictly ballroom. In preparation, join with us in celebrating past frightening favourites with our Halloween Hall of Fame.