Strictly Come Dancing 2021: week six results – as it happened (2024)

So that’s IT for another Strictly Halloween! Thank you for joining in and keeping the comment box cobweb-free. The spooky props and plastic pumpkins can be put back in their boxes for another year - next week we’re back to normal Strictly business as we reach the halfway point of this year’s series.

Kick off is at 6.45pm, so please join me then! In the meantime you can find me on Twitter @heidistephens, so feel free to swing by and say hello. Have a great week!

Judi and Graz say lots of lovely things about each other (life changing experience, friends for life^TM DRINK), then take to the floor for their final dance, to ‘Bat Out Of Hell’ by Meat Loaf.

Time for the judging, and it’s no great surprise that the judges all save Adam and Katya. He shouldn’t have been in the dance-off really, but that’s the way Strictly goes. The Grand Final is usually the right people, we just have to go on a rollercoaster ride to get there.

And now it’s time for Judi and Graziano. I’ve really enjoyed watching these two, they’ve been great value and they’ve given good Instagram. If anything the timing here is worse than last night - I think mentally Judi has already left the building. But who amongst us felt like doing a Cha Cha in a leotard a week after Covid? I know I didn’t.

Dance-off time! Adam and Katya are up first to deliver their slightly ponderous, cobwebby Viennese. I think one thing we learned last night is that the Strictly audience prefers AC/DC to Beethoven, and also prefers Adam when he’s wearing fewer clothes. Quite a few mistakes in there, but I’m sure he’s done enough to stay.

So it’s Adam and Katya vs. Judi and Graziano. I think it’s reasonable to assume that Judi and Graziano are going home, unless Adam really stuffs this up or Katya gets trapped inside that piano.

But can we also acknowledge the public support for Sara (or possibly Aljaz’s outfit), Tom and Dan? I don’t think it will last, we’re getting to the sharp end now. But the people definitely have their favourites.

So who’s joining Adam and Katya in the dance off? Dan and Nadiya are safe, along with AJ and Kai, John and Johannes and Tom and Amy.

Which means JUDI AND GRAZIANO in the dance-off.

Time for a musical interlude, courtesy of jazz legend Gregory Porter singing his latest single ‘Dry Bones’. Bonus points for knocking up a theme-appropriate song, did Strictly put an order in?

He’s accompanied by Cameron and Jowita doing a sexy Jive. It’s quite fabulous, particularly if you’ve eaten a lot of sweets and are bouncing off the walls.

Well, that’s interesting. Adam and Katya were sixth out of ten on the leaderboard, which means at least two of Tom, Dan and Judi have been saved by the public vote despite scoring fewer points from the judges. Who’s going to be down there with him? One of those three, or someone else from the middle table?

So who’s safely through to dance again next week? Rhys and Nancy are through (so pleased for them, well deserved), along with Rose and Giovanni (obvs), Tilly and Nikita and Sara and Aljaz (WELL).

First couple in the bottom two: ADAM AND KATYA.

Last night on Strictly: plenny of tricks and a few special treats.

Highlights: Four tens for Rose and Giovanni, Tilly showing us how a Cha Cha should be done, JoJo’s giant quiffs, the Dave Arch Singers’ rendition of Highway To Hell, Aljaz’s leather harness, Motsi’s horns.

Lowlights: Scoring madness, some tepid lobsters, Couple’s Choice (generally, but particularly that one), Adam’s ropey powdered wig.

Black all round, Claudia going for Betty’s Tea Room chic again, Tess in a feathery-skirted tux. It’s the one night they can legitimately look horrific, and it’s all a bit pedestrian.

And we’re off! Tonight’s show opens with a haunting pro dance, featuring Kai dancing with a ghostly Nadiya, who steps out of a painting into some ankle fog. She’s followed by King Gorka and his evil henchmen, and there’s some kind of good vs. evil battle. Well, that was dark.

When did the BBC start putting such stressful TV on a Sunday night? It’s supposed to be stuff that gently eases us out of the weekend, like Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow and Harry Secombe’s Highway. Down with this sort of thing.

Incidentally, one of the upsides of being chained to my laptop on Halloween night is that the job of answering the front door to local witches and ghouls has been delegated to my beloved. He’s dressed as the grim reaper and is doing a sterling job.

Happy Halloween everyone, and welcome back for tonight’s Spooktacular Results Show! Last night’s show wasn’t everyone’s cup of terrifying tea, but I actually quite enjoyed it. The thrillers (AJ, Tilly, Rose) more than made up for the graveyard mulch.

Tonight we say a ghoulish goodnight to another one of our creepy couples (I’ll stop the alliteration soon, I promise), which will push us over the line into November and (finally!) shows that have fewer than ten couples and run for less than ninety minutes.

We’ll be lifting the creaky lid on the Strictly Results at 7.15pm, so join me then. Sadly they’ve shifted Countryfile for Doctor Who, but I did catch the Casual Weather earlier. I think the politest way to describe Louise Lear’s look would be ‘busy’.

See you in a bit!

And that’s it for this year’s Halloween dancing! I’ll be back here tomorrow at 7.15pm for the Sunday night Results show, so please join me then. Thank you to everyone who joined in; you are the hocus to my pocus and the candles in my pumpkin. See you tomorrow, and don’t forget to put your clocks back! Wooooooo, etc.

Who’s your favourite this week? Despite the Halloween chaos, I actually really enjoyed tonight’s show.

Great performances from AJ and Kai, Rose and Giovanni and Tilly and Nikita, and a solid improvement from Rhys and Nancy too. I don’t think John and Johannes had their best night, but I can’t see them being in the bottom two.