Shaun Wright-Phillips has left Strictly after losing the week five dance-off to Jaime Winstone. The next show is Halloween Week on Saturday at 6.30 pm, with the first triple dance-off in the show’s history.
Saturday 31 October, BBC One
Halloween Week, with a triple dance-off. Out in week five: Shaun Wright-Phillips
Is Strictly on tonight?
No. Strictly Come Dancing is not on again until Saturday 31 October 2026, when Halloween Week starts at 6.30 pm on BBC One. The results show follows on Sunday 1 November, and there is no live show on weeknights.
On weeknights, Strictly: It Takes Two fills the gap on BBC Two at 6.30 pm, and Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis Warr are due on it this week after their exit, according to ATV Today.
| Show | Date | On air |
|---|---|---|
| Week 6 | Sat 31 OctoberSat 31 Oct | From 6.30 pm |
| Results | Sun 1 NovemberSun 1 Nov | Not yet listed |
Strictly’s start time is not fixed. It shifts by fifteen or twenty minutes most weeks depending on what the BBC has either side of it, and it moves further when there is football or a one-off in the schedule. Check the BBC One listings on the day rather than assuming last week’s slot holds.
What time does Strictly finish?
The finish time for Saturday’s Halloween Week show has not been published yet. Last weekend, the week five live show ran from 6.30 pm to 8.35 pm and the results show from 7.10 pm to 8 pm.
Who left Strictly this week?
Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis Warr left Strictly Come Dancing in the week five results show on Sunday 25 October 2026, after losing the dance-off to Jaime Winstone and Carlos Gu. They were the fourth couple out.
Wright-Phillips and Warr had been bottom of the leaderboard with 17 for their jive to Faith. Winstone and Gu scored 25 for their foxtrot to Olivia Dean’s Man I Need, but the public vote put them in the bottom two. Both couples danced those routines again in the dance-off.
Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke voted to save Winstone and Gu, and Shirley Ballas voted to save Wright-Phillips and Warr, according to ATV Today and TV Zone UK. Du Beke held the casting vote this week, so his was the deciding vote.
It was their second dance-off. In week three, Du Beke was one of the judges who saved them against Melanie Walters and Aljaž Škorjanec. This time he sent them home.
Eleven couples are left going into Halloween Week.
What is the Strictly triple dance-off?
The Strictly triple dance-off is a new twist for Halloween Week on Saturday 31 October 2026. The three couples with the lowest combined judges’ scores and public votes dance again, and the judges send one of them home. It is the first triple dance-off in the show’s history.
It was announced at the end of Sunday’s results show. After Halloween, the show goes back to the usual two-couple dance-off for the rest of the series, Brit Brief reported.
With eleven couples left, that puts more than a quarter of the field in danger in one night. How the four judges’ votes will work across three couples, rather than two, has not been explained yet.
How did Delta Goodrem do on her Strictly return?
Delta Goodrem scored 34 for her rumba to It’s All Coming Back to Me Now with Kai Widdrington on Saturday 24 October, including the first 10 of the 2026 series, from Anton Du Beke.
“This is my favourite dance of the series by a million miles,” Du Beke said. Her marks were 7, 9, 8 and 10, which put her second on the night, three points behind Tabby Stoecker, according to Aussievision.
She had missed Icons Week with a rib injury after two trips to hospital, and she and Widdrington took a bye, which carried them into week five without competing.
That bye was the only one she gets. Each contestant has one, and a second missed week would have meant leaving the competition. The rumba was a dance with no lifts for her first week back.
Who is still in Strictly 2026?
Eleven couples are still in Strictly 2026, from an original fifteen, going into Halloween Week on Saturday 31 October.
Strictly week five leaderboard and scores
Tabby Stoecker and Mark Karmalita topped the Strictly week five leaderboard on Saturday 24 October 2026 with 37, the highest score of the series so far. Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis Warr were bottom with 17.
| Pos | Couple | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tabby Stoecker and Mark KarmalitaCouple’s Choice | 37 |
| 2 | Delta Goodrem and Kai WiddringtonRumba | 34 |
| 3 | John Nellis and Katya JonesQuickstep | 32 |
| 4= | Dani Dyer and Nikita KuzminSalsa | 31 |
| 4= | Will Best and Dianne BuswellCha cha | 31 |
| 4= | Graeme Hall and Lauren OakleyTango | 31 |
| 7 | Lacey Turner and Vito CoppolaTango | 28 |
| 8= | Bethany Antonia and Nancy XuArgentine tango | 25 |
| 8= | Jaime Winstone and Carlos GuFoxtrot | 25 |
| 10 | Cach Mercer and Maddie IngoldsbyCha cha | 24 |
| 11 | Lawrence Robb and Jowita PrzystałJive | 19 |
| 12 | Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis WarrJive | 17 |
Stoecker’s Couple’s Choice to Olivia Rodrigo’s stupid song picked up two 10s. Lacey Turner briefly appeared to score 29 because of an on-screen graphics error before her total was corrected to 28, Brit Brief reported.
On the judges’ scores alone, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Lawrence Robb were the bottom two. Once the public vote was added, Robb was safe, and Jaime Winstone, joint eighth with 25, was in the dance-off instead.
What channel is Strictly on, and can you watch it later?
Strictly Come Dancing is on BBC One, and both the Saturday show and the Sunday results are on BBC iPlayer after broadcast.
You need a TV licence to watch live or on iPlayer. There is nothing to pay on top of that. Strictly: It Takes Two, the spin-off, goes out on BBC Two on weeknights at 6.30 pm and appears on iPlayer the same evening.
Full Strictly Come Dancing 2026 schedule
Strictly 2026 has a Saturday live show and a Sunday results show each week, with the final on Saturday 19 December. Times move week to week.
| Week | Live showShow | Results | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 26 September26 Sep | No results show | Aired |
| 2 | Sat 3 October3 Oct | Sun 4 October4 Oct | Aired |
| 3 | Sat 10 October10 Oct | Sun 11 October11 Oct | Aired |
| 4 | Sat 17 October17 Oct | Sun 18 October18 Oct | Aired |
| 5 | Sat 24 October24 Oct | Sun 25 October25 Oct | Aired |
| 6 | Sat 31 October31 Oct | Sun 1 November1 Nov | Halloween |
| 7 | Sat 7 November7 Nov | Sun 8 November8 Nov | Expected |
| 8 | Sat 14 November14 Nov | Sun 15 November15 Nov | Expected |
| 9 | Sat 21 November21 Nov | Sun 22 November22 Nov | Blackpool |
| 10 | Sat 28 November28 Nov | Sun 29 November29 Nov | Expected |
| 11 | Sat 5 December5 Dec | Sun 6 December6 Dec | Musicals |
| 12 | Sat 12 December12 Dec | Sun 13 December13 Dec | Semi-finalSemi |
| 13 | Sat 19 December19 Dec | No results show | Final |
Week one had no elimination, which is why there is no results show against it. The final on 19 December decides the winner on the night, so there is no separate results show that weekend either. The Halloween Week live show starts at 6.30 pm; times for the results show and later weeks have not been published yet.
Who else has left Strictly 2026?
Dame Sarah Storey and Julian Caillon left Strictly 2026 in week four, Melanie Walters and Aljaž Škorjanec in week three, and Chris Appleton and Amy Dowden in week two.
Storey and Caillon lost the week four dance-off to Bethany Antonia and Nancy Xu on Sunday 18 October, after their Icons Week tango to That Don’t Impress Me Much scored 21, the lowest of the night. Anton Du Beke, Motsi Mabuse and Craig Revel Horwood all voted to save Antonia and Xu.
Walters and Škorjanec lost the week three dance-off to Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis Warr. Craig Revel Horwood, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke all voted to save Wright-Phillips. Motsi Mabuse voted to save Walters. The panel split three votes to one, so the casting vote was not needed.
Appleton and Dowden went out a week earlier, after a Movie Week dance-off against Jaime Winstone and Carlos Gu, on a unanimous judges’ vote.
Who has the casting vote in the dance-off?
The casting vote on Strictly moves between the four judges from week to week, and whoever holds it is named at the end of Saturday’s show.
This replaced the old arrangement where Shirley Ballas decided every tie, a change she asked for herself on the grounds that it was time the power was shared.
Anton Du Beke held it in week three and again in week five, and Shirley Ballas held it in week four. In weeks three and four it was not needed, because both dance-offs were settled before the fourth judge was reached.
Week five was the first time it mattered. With Ballas voting to save Shaun Wright-Phillips, Du Beke had the final say and saved Jaime Winstone and Carlos Gu instead.
Strictly Come Dancing voting 2026: how to vote
Strictly Come Dancing voting is online only, through a free BBC account, and the window opens near the end of Saturday’s live show.
If you are still looking for a phone number, there isn’t one. The BBC dropped premium-rate phone voting in 2025, after BT wound down the service that had run since the show launched in 2004. This is the second series without it.
The next window opens near the end of the Halloween Week show on Saturday 31 October. This week the public vote, added to the judges’ scores, decides which three couples end up in the dance-off, not two. You can spread your votes across couples or put them all on one, and once a vote is in, it cannot be changed.
Who is hosting Strictly in 2026?
Emma Willis, Josh Widdicombe and Johannes Radebe are presenting the 2026 series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are not in the ballroom this year, and between them they had fronted the show for most of its modern life.
Radebe’s move is the genuinely interesting one. He spent years on the Strictly floor as a professional dancer, and he is now the person introducing it. Very few shows promote from the cast to the front of house, and almost none do it with a dancer.
Who are the Strictly judges in 2026?
Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke are the Strictly Come Dancing judges in 2026.
Unchanged, and after the presenting shake-up that is probably deliberate. You do not replace the voices and the scores in the same year.
When is the Strictly 2026 final?
The Strictly Come Dancing 2026 final is on Saturday 19 December.
That is thirteen weeks of live shows from the 26 September opener. The semi-final is the weekend before, on 12 December.
We update this page after every live show and results show.