In anticipation of Series 21, we take a look back to December 2020 when Covid scuppered the usual Strictly Christmas Special, and instead a show was broadcast counting down the top 25 most memorable routines in Strictly history to that point, which had been voted for online by the public.

Who is the greatest Strictly Come Dancing Champion of all time? We took a look at the data and created a Champions Leaderboard to see if it would reveal the answer…

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.

Can you guess which dance has seen the most Movie Week success to date? It’s Movie Week – so in anticipation of some fab dances this Saturday we’ve collected the highest scoring movie themed performances Strictly has seen into our own Movie dance leaderboard.

The judges loved last night’s Quicksteps scoring them the two highest dances of the evening!

Last night’s dance scores suggest 2022 will be a bumper Strictly season. The second highest average score for first dances on the series ever!