As the celebrities leap over the halfway mark for this series of Strictly Come Dancing, Blackpool is in their cross-hairs. There’s only the small matter of tonight’s dance, standing in their way.

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Strictly Come Dancing songs & dances for Week 8

• Alex Kingston and Johannes Radebe – Waltz to Weekend in New England by Barry Manilow
• Balvinder Sopal and Julian Caillon – American Smooth to My Guy by Mary Wells
• George Clarke and Alexis Warr – Rumba to Somewhere Only We Know by Lily Allen
• Karen Carney and Carlos Gu – American Smooth to You Don’t Own Me by SAYGRACE
• La Voix and Aljaž Škorjanec – Couple’s Choice to Don’t Rain On My Parade by Barbra Streisand
• Lewis Cope and Katya Jones – Tango to 12 to 12 by sombr
• Vicky Pattison and Kai Widdrington – Jive to Sound of the Underground by Girls Aloud
• Amber Davies and Nikita Kuzmin – Paso Doble to Dream On by Aerosmith

And so, we had, among other things, a blast of fire, a touch of magic, a hyphen of neon yellow and a liberal smattering of emotion.

BBC/Guy Levy

BBC/Guy Levy

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