Strictly Come Dancing (Series 4)

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The fourth series of Strictly Come Dancing started on 7 October and ended on 23 December. It was presented by Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly, and the winner was Mark Ramprakash along with his dancing partner Karen Hardy.

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[edit] The show

For more information, see the main article.

The show works by having four judges: Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli, judging each couple out of ten after each performance. When all the couples have danced, they are inserted onto the leaderboard, where the highest ranked couple will get the highest amount of points available, and the lowest ranked couple getting one point.

On the second show of the night, once the viewers votes are in, the points from the leaderboard are added to those created by the viewer votes to find the two lowest ranked couples, and the lowest ranked couple go home.

[edit] Couples

This year there are 14 couples: 7 male celebrities and 7 female celebrities. They are (in order of their voting phone numbers):

[edit] Week by Week Guide

The following table shows which dance each couple does and the order of elimination:

     This couple were in the bottom two when the judges score was added to the public vote.
     This couple left the competition due to having the lowest score when the judges score was added to the public vote.
     This couple finished in second.
     This couple were the winners.
Contestants Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Final
Mark & Karen (Winners) Cha Cha Cha Group West Coast/East
Coast Swing		 Tango Paso Doble Salsa American Smooth Rumba Viennese Waltz Foxtrot, Samba Waltz, Jive Argentine Tango, Quickstep Various (see below)
Matt & Lilia
(2nd Place)		 Cha Cha Cha Group West Coast/East
Coast Swing		 Tango Paso Doble Salsa American Smooth Waltz Jive Quickstep, Rumba Viennese Waltz, Samba Argentine Tango, Foxtrot Various (see below)
Emma & Darren Group Mambo Quickstep Jive Foxtrot Viennese Waltz Samba Cha Cha Cha American Smooth Waltz, Paso Doble Tango, Rumba Argentine Tango, Salsa
Louisa & Vincent Group Mambo Quickstep Jive Foxtrot Salsa Samba Tango Paso Doble Viennese Waltz, Cha Cha Cha American Smooth, Rumba
Carol & Matthew Group Mambo Quickstep Jive Foxtrot Salsa American Smooth Cha Cha Cha Waltz Viennese Waltz, Samba
Claire & Brendan Group Mambo Rumba Jive Foxtrot Salsa American Smooth Tango Samba
Peter & Erin Waltz Group West Coast/East
Coast Swing		 Tango Paso Doble Viennese Waltz Samba Foxtrot
Ray & Camilla Cha Cha Cha Group West Coast/East
Coast Swing		 Tango Paso Doble Viennese Waltz Samba
Jan & Anton Group Mambo Quickstep Jive Foxtrot Viennese Waltz
Georgina & James Group Mambo Rumba Jive Foxtrot
Spoony & Ola Cha Cha Cha Group West Coast/East
Coast Swing		 Tango
Mica & Ian Group Mambo Rumba
Jimmy & Flavia Waltz Withdrew due to health reasons
Nicholas & Nicole Waltz

[edit] Trivia

  • In week 1, the male celebrity couples danced for the judges and the public vote, while the female celebrity couples performed a group dance. In week 2, this was reversed. From week 3, all couples were marked against each other.
  • Georgina Bouzova, was late replacement for Gabby Logan, who was barred from taking part by ITV to save her for rival series Dancing On Ice.
  • Jimmy Tarbuck did not take part in the group swing dance of week 2, then announced his official withdrawal from the contest before the week 3 show. His departure had the knock-on effect of leaving just two couples in the final week, as opposed to a three-way final, which was the case in the past two series.
  • Louisa Lytton and Vincent Simone scored the first 10 vote in the series in week 3 for their jive. It was given to them by Bruno Tonioli.
  • In week 5 , Mark Ramprakash and Karen Hardy's performance had to be called to a halt after Karen's dress became caught in Mark's microphone. The pair pleaded to have another try. Bruce's response was "This is live television, this is what it's all about!" as one stagehand ran behind him to help the couple. The pair were allowed to dance again and received four '9' votes from the judges, which was the highest score of the night.
  • In week 8, all remaining couples had to take part in a showdance, which was not marked by the judges.
  • From week 9, every couple had to perform two dances; one ballroom and one Latin.
  • In the results show of week 10, the two couples with the lowest combined score had to perform a "dance-off" for survival. However, it was possible for viewers to calculate the points combination that each couple received beforehand, and the result was actually unaffected by the dance-off.
  • In week 11, all remaining couples performed an Argentine Tango in addition to their own ballroom/Latin dance.
  • The highest judges score of the series was a perfect 40. This was achieved in the final, by Mark Ramprakash and Karen Hardy for their Salsa. This beat their previous high score of 39, which they achieved in the semi-final.
  • Emma Bunton's elimination in week 11 meant that this series had the second consecutive all-male and all-sportsman final two. Mark Ramprakash's win also meant that a cricketer had been victorious for two series running, and Lilia Kopylova appeared in her second consecutive grand final, making her the only professional dancer to have placed both first and second in the series.
  • The final of series 4 differed from the previous series, as each couple had to perform five dances. In the week before the final, these were announced as: favourite ballroom dance (for Mark, the Tango; for Matt, the Waltz), favourite Latin dance (for Mark, the Salsa; for Matt, the Samba), a duel Viennese Waltz, new dance performed to judges' choice of music (which is (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher), and a freestyle show dance.
  • During the final week of the contest, Matt Dawson placed a £1000 bet that he would win the show, promising to give the winnings to Children In Need if he was successful.
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