Strictly Come Dancing 2022: Will Mellor and Nancy Xu blow judges away

Strictly Come Dancing’s tenth dwell present of the sequence hit BBC One on Saturday night, with the six remaining {couples} hoping to set the dance flooring alight forward of subsequent week’s semi-final.

After giving it their all on the Blackpool Tower Ballroom final week, the celebrities as soon as once more discovered a brand new routine as issues stepped up a gear.

Will Mellor and Nancy Xu had been the primary couple to carry out, dancing the Charleston. The pair wore matching black fits, with skilled Nancy’s that includes neon pink and yellow stripes whereas actor Will’s had blue and yellow stripes.

Host Tess Daly went to move choose Shirley Ballas for her feedback first, with Shirley saying: ‘Properly, to begin with Will, coming off Blackpool you by no means know actually what to anticipate. Going on the market at the moment every little thing labored properly for you. The choreography was good and also you did not miss a elevate. Properly carried out. ‘

Anton Du Beke instructed the pair: ‘I feel that was one in all your greatest performances of the sequence. You commit to each transfer, you nail each transfer.’

Whereas Craig Revel Horwood stated: ‘I believed your free arm may very well be just a little bit extra positioned. The swivel was incredible. Properly carried out!’

Motsi Mabuse stated: ‘If we’re setting the usual for tonight then we have now an actual massive drawback as a result of that was quick, that was slick, the power between you was wonderful.’

The pair scored 38 out of 40, with two marks of 10 from Shirley and Motsi, whereas each Craig and Anton awarded them scores of 9.

Tv Molly Rainford and her accomplice Carlos Gu had been subsequent to carry out after they had been within the dance off final week towards departing couple Tyler West and Dianne Buswell.

Former Britain’s Received Expertise contestant Molly and Carlos danced the Tango this weekend, with Molly wanting sensational as she gave a glimpse at her midriff in a sequinned pink cropped high and matching skirt with a aspect cut up.

Anton instructed them after their efficiency: ‘The factor about you is you are a very nice dancer however you do not allow us to see it… at the moment was the primary time you actually allow us to see it… Molly, now you are speaking!’

Craig stated: ‘I cherished the quantity of aggression in that, the storytelling was good and it had energy. It was nice.

Motsi added: ‘What I actually love about you two is, Carlos, you problem her. We knew from day one which she was gifted however there was a lot nice content material… That is the Molly who’s attacking and who we wish to see. Properly carried out lady.

Shirley stated: ‘Week after week you have been within the backside two and also you battle… There was some pretty footwork, the eagerness between you was completely divine. You’ve got carried out good choreography this week.’

Giving the pair their scores Craig awarded an eight and Motsi, Shirley and Anton all gave them 9 every, which means their rating totalled 35 out of a attainable 40.

Subsequent to take to the dance flooring was comic Ellie Taylor who carried out the Jive together with her skilled accomplice Johannes Radebe. 

Opening the feedback, Craig stated: ‘You bought off on the mistaken foot, it was lacklustre I am afraid.’

Motsi instructed them: ‘You had the enjoyable of Jive. I like the entire appeared. I’ve two sections for you, I’ve the efficiency which I feel it getting higher after which I’ve technical… you had the style of the Jive which was good to see.’

Shirley stated: ‘I cherished the theme, I believed the narrative was good however for me, the method missed fully. It appeared fairly heavy and a bit flat footed. There isn’t a mistaking, your character is beautiful however, at week 10, I need a little bit of each if we will.’

Anton added: ‘I really like the best way you carry out your numbers. You could possibly be a musical theatre star, you have got nice characterisation… I believed it was marvellous, properly carried out.’

Giving his rating, Craig provided 5, Shirley gave six, whereas each Motsi and Shirley gave sevens, totalling 25.

Performing subsequent was singer Fleur East and her skilled accomplice Vito Coppola. The couple carried out the Rumba.

Opening the remarks, Motsi stated: ‘It is not a simple dance and what I really like is that you simply had been attempting to be very technical about it… It was seen and you probably did plenty of work on that, properly carried out.

Shirley instructed them: ‘I believed it was extraordinarily passionate and you’ve got undoubtedly discovered to regulate your power with out shedding your freedom. The leg motion, congratulations, the foot motion, congratulations, and the eagerness between you, congratulations.

Anton stated: ‘You stayed splendidly in time, fantastically on stability… I felt you had the management of the dance and never the opposite method spherical, properly carried out.’

Whereas Craig stated: ‘I agree with Shirley concerning the respiratory, I felt such as you had been holding again, and that was like a block throughout the dance… I really like the connection you have got between one another, it was completely great.’

Craig awarded the pair eight whereas Motsi, Shirley and Anton all gave them nines, which means they scored a complete of 35.

Wildlife presenter Hamza Yassin and his skilled accomplice Jowita Przystal had been subsequent to carry out, with the couple dancing the Argentine Tango.

Praising Jowita for her ‘spectacular’ method, Shirley credited Hamza for being the proper main man, saying: ‘You made it work!’

Nonetheless, Anton was lower than impressed, saying: ‘This was a dance of two halves for me. The highest halve was intense and powerful, highly effective… The underside half appeared such as you performed centre ahead for Bradford Metropolis.’

Craig stated: ‘I agree with Anton, the foot ought to caress the ground… If I used to be going to like any a part of the dance, it was the highest half.’

Motsi instructed them: ‘I used to be watching proper now intensely and the bototm half to be so related on that dance flooring, she appeared like she was flying!

‘It may possibly solely be that when when you have got a grounded accomplice… I believed your backside half appeared very pretty and I believed your higher half was magnificent.’

Giving his marks, Craig awarded an eight, Anton gave them a 9 and each Motsi and Shirley awarded them a ten every. Their rating totalled 37 out of 40.

The following couple to carry out was tv presenter Helen Skelton and her skilled accomplice Gorka Marquez, with the pair dancing the Samba.

Giving his feedback, Anton instructed them: ‘What I cherished about this efficiency was I bought you, we bought Helen Skelton popping out to play… I can really feel the women are going to speak to you concerning the leg motion however properly carried out.’

Craig stated: ‘It was very straight, it was very picket, it was sq., there was no bounce however incredible character.’

Motsi instructed them: ‘I noticed so many particulars in your dancing, in order that’s an ideal, good thing. What I did see truthfully is that you simply guys put plenty of work in there and that’s the feeling of a Samba.’

And Shirley stated: ‘I’ve watched you from the very starting and I’ve seen you come out right here with this newfound confidence… I although for 75 per cent, you probably did a superb Samba… I believed for a Samba being a troublesome dance, you probably did it properly.’

Giving his marks, Craig awarded a 5, whereas Motsi, Shirley and Anton all awarded eights. Their complete rating was 29.

It comes after Kym Marsh has examined constructive for Covid forcing her {and professional} accomplice Graziana Di Prima out of the competitors this weekend. 

A Strictly spokesperson instructed MailOnline: ‘Kym Marsh has examined constructive for Covid-19. Consequently, Kym and Graziano is not going to be participating in Strictly Come Dancing this weekend. 

‘Strictly Come Dancing protocols imply that every one being properly, they’ll return the next week.’

The announcement comes simply two weeks after Kym admitted she practically stop the present after struggling a crippling panic assault simply hours earlier than the dwell present. 

The tv star, 46, was stated to have burst into tears earlier than she was consoled by twinkle-toed star Graziano, 28, forward of a dwell present that aired final month.

Former Coronation Avenue actress Kym, who is claimed to have contemplated quitting the competition as a result of her overwhelming nervousness, instructed The Solar: ‘It simply came visiting me, nearly out of nowhere, and I couldn’t stick with it.’

It’s claimed Kym struggled to proceed dancing, prompting producers to consolation her as she calmed down, and hours later she took to the ground once more in the course of the dwell present and accomplished her dance. 

Former Hear’Say singer Kym added: ‘I’ve at all times suffered from panic assaults. It’s one thing I don’t thoughts speaking about as a result of I do know it could possibly have an effect on anybody at any time.

‘Generally it has been ages (since an assault) after which immediately one simply hits.

‘Everybody thinks that since you’re on the telly you should be amazingly assured, however the reality is that I’m not at all times and that is how that comes out.’

She added that she didn’t know what introduced on the panic assault, surmising that it may have been that she’d had some harsh feedback from the judges mixed with the actual fact she’d additionally been working different jobs, leaving her emotional and exhausted.

Kym stated she ‘misplaced her confidence fully’ and ‘went to items’, admitting she didn’t see how she may stick with it with the present.

Regardless of having remedy in a bid to curb her nervousness, Kym stated it could possibly nonetheless ‘creep up’ on her.

In the meantime, Kym and Graziano had been awarded 31 factors for his or her American Clean to Chasing Automobiles by Snow Patrol in the course of the eighth episode of the present, which she devoted to her late son Archie. 

He handed away following a untimely start in February 2009.

The actress stated in her VT: ‘It reminds us of my son Archie. I gave start to him prematurely and sadly he died shortly after.

The emotional star continued: ‘I really feel by doing this dance, will probably be not solely in reminiscence of Archie however get folks speaking about their very own experiences.’

Kym and her ex-husband Jamie Lomas had been left heartbroken when their youngster handed away at simply 21 weeks, following a untimely start in February 2009.

Decide Motsi Mabuse stated: ‘The message you tried to place by means of, the fragility and vulnerability got here by means of, it was so clear. It began so properly, I do not know what occurred. There was a sudden change of power and I do not know why. There was an ideal ending and it began so splendidly.’

Strictly Come Dancing continues on BBC One at 7:15pm on Sunday – when yet another couple will likely be eradicated from the competition.