Strictly Come Dancing (series 3)

Strictly Come Dancing (Series 3)
Country United Kingdom
Network BBC One
Original run 15 October 2005 – 17 December 2005
No. of episodes 20
Celebrity winner Darren Gough
Professional winner Lilia Kopylova
Previous series Series 2
Next series Series 4

The third series of Strictly Come Dancing started on 15 October 2005 and ended on 17 December 2005. It was presented by Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly, and the winner was Darren Gough along with his dancing partner Lilia Kopylova.

Contents

The show

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.

The Couples

In the third series there were 12 celebrity dancers, 6 men and 6 women. In order of elimination they were:

Celebrity Occupation Professional partner Result
Siobhan Hayes My Family star Matthew Cutler Eliminated 1st
on 15 October 2005
Jaye Jacobs Actress Andrew Cuerden Eliminated 2nd
on 22 October 2005
Gloria Hunniford TV & radio presenter Darren Bennett Eliminated 3rd
on 29 October 2005
Fiona Phillips GMTV broadcaster Brendan Cole Eliminated 4th
on 5 November 2005
Dennis Taylor Snooker player Izabela Hannah Eliminated 5th
on 12 November 2005
Will Thorp Actor Hanna Haarala Eliminated 6th
on 19 November 2005
Bill Turnbull News presenter Karen Hardy Eliminated 7th
on 26 November 2005
Patsy Palmer EastEnders star Anton du Beke Eliminated 8th
on 3 December 2005
James Martin Celebrity cook Camilla Dallerup Eliminated 9th
on 10 December 2005
Zoe Ball TV & radio presenter Ian Waite
Third Place
on 17 December 2005
Colin Jackson Olympic sprinter Erin Boag
Second Place
on 17 December 2005
Darren Gough Cricketer Lilia Kopylova
Series Winners
on 17 December 2005

Dances performed

     the couple eliminated that week.
     the couple that was in the bottom two that week but not eliminated.
     the couple withdrew from the competition that week.
     the winning couple.
     the runner-up couple.
     the third-place couple.
Red text the lowest-scoring dance of the series.
Green text the highest-scoring dance of the series.
"—" indicates the couple(s) did not dance that week.
Team Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10
Final
Darren & Lilia Cha Cha Cha Quickstep Tango Paso Doble Viennese Waltz Jive Foxtrot American Smooth & Rumba Waltz & Samba Foxtrot
& Paso Doble
Colin & Erin Cha Cha Cha Quickstep Tango Paso Doble Samba Foxtrot Viennese Waltz American Smooth & Rumba Waltz & Jive Quickstep & Rumba
Zoe & Ian Waltz Rumba Jive Foxtrot Samba Quickstep Tango American Smooth & Cha-Cha-Cha Viennese Waltz & Paso Doble Tango & Samba
James & Camilla Cha Cha Cha Quickstep Tango Paso Doble Viennese Waltz Jive Waltz American Smooth & Samba Foxtrot & Rumba
Patsy & Anton Waltz Rumba Tango Foxtrot Samba Quickstep Cha Cha Cha American Smooth & Jive
Bill & Karen Cha Cha Cha Quickstep Tango Paso Doble Viennese Waltz Rumba Waltz
Will & Hanna Cha Cha Cha Quickstep Jive Foxtrot Viennese Waltz Tango
Dennis & Izabella Cha Cha Cha Quickstep Jive Paso Doble Samba
Fiona & Brendan Waltz Rumba Jive Foxtrot
Gloria & Darren Waltz Rumba Jive
Jaye & Andrew Waltz Rumba
Siobhan & Matthew Waltz

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The dances performed during Series 3 were as follows:

Judges' scoring summary

     the couple eliminated that week.
     the couple that was in the bottom two that week but not eliminated.
     the couple withdrew from the competition that week.
     the winning couple.
     the runner-up couple.
     the third-place couple.
Red text the couple(s) with the lowest score for that week.
Green text the couple(s) with the highest score for that week.
"—" indicates the couple(s) did not dance that week.
Team Place 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Darren & Lilia 1 19 30 33 34 28 30 34 32+30=62 35+29=64 36+36=72
Colin & Erin 2 32 36 26 31 32 32 34 37+36=73 37+30=67 39+36=75
Zoe & Ian 3 35 32 29 36 35 36 38 36+32=68 36+33=69 38+38=76
James & Camilla 4 22 29 28 29 29 20 32 28+20=48 33+22=55
Patsy & Anton 5 19 26 34 31 26 31 24 31+27=58
Bill & Karen 6 29 23 20 25 27 17 25
Will & Hanna 7 18 29 25 34 23 28
Dennis & Izabela 8 20 18 22 15 23
Fiona & Brendan 9 11 13 16 20
Gloria & Darren 10 22 17 19
Jaye & Andrew 11 25 21
Siobhan & Matthew 12 15

Highest and lowest scoring performances

The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows:

Dance Best dancer(s) Best score Worst dancer(s) Worst score
Cha Cha Cha Zoe Ball
Colin Jackson		 32 Will Thorp 18
Jive Darren Gough
Colin Jackson		 30 Fiona Phillips 16
Rumba Colin Jackson 36 Fiona Phillips 13
Paso doble Darren Gough 36 Dennis Taylor 15
Samba Zoe Ball 38 James Martin 20
Waltz Colin Jackson 37 Fiona Phillips 11
Quickstep Colin Jackson 39 Dennis Taylor 18
Foxtrot Zoe Ball
Darren Gough		 36 Fiona Phillips 20
Tango Zoe Ball 38 Bill Turnbull 20
Viennese Waltz Zoe Ball 36 Will Thorp 23
American Smooth Colin Jackson 37 James Martin 28

Number of tens

Couple Total No. of Tens Week Judge(s) who gave a ten Dance Performed Score
Zoe/Ian 9
6 Bruno Tonioli Quickstep 36
7 Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli Tango 38
Final Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli Samba 38
Final Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli Tango 38
Christmas Special Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli Foxtrot 38
Colin/Erin 5
8 Arlene Phillips American Smooth 37
9 Len Goodman Waltz 37
Final Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli Quickstep 39
Darren/Lilia 2
Final Len Goodman Foxtrot 36

Notes

Additional information

Notes

  1. ^ "Ian & Victoria's Strictly series 3 page". http://www.ianvictoria.co.uk/comedancing3.htm. 
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