Strictly 2025 : Week Six. We’re Creepy And We’re Kooky, Mysterious And Spooky, The Strictly Family 18.35PM NO SPOILERS

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Welcome to the thread for Hallowe’en Night!

Re Halloween, I was brought up Catholic, and All Saints Day (November 1st) was a Holy Day of Obligation, which meant that we would go to Mass. All Souls Day(November 2) was the day to pray for people you had loved who had died and probably go to Mass again to remember them.

Halloween was on the eve (i.e. the day before) All Hallows Day (i.e. All Saints Day). So there is nothing unChristian about that, in itself. It is part of the church calendar.

There are quite ancient traditions of handing out goodies like soulcakes, a sort of nice biscuit, to pay children for praying for your loved ones who had died, and this was the precursor I think of trick or treating.

We certainly didn't have trick or treating when I was a kid (and it wouldn't have been safe in our part of North London) but we did get taught loads about saints and Catholic views on the afterlife at school, and we went to church a lot, and my parents mourned the family members they had lost.

My own kids have got dressed up for Halloween, but not as anything involving skulls or blood as I wasn't comfortable with that. Pumpkins, cats and pirates, more like.

Did anyone capture the scores on the doors?

Think the heavy wigs and costumes got to the judges heads, George hardly danced, his partner did a lovely dance perhaps they were marking her.

Loved Ellie and Vito, great partnership the way she remembers all her steps is amazing and she puts her all in to the dance, and Vito is doing a brilliant job teaching her, she is inspirational and we could all learn a lot from her happy joyous nature.

Loved Lewis and katya we were applauding at the end! Fantastic and I don’t care! ( before anyone says he’s a ringer) I’m voting for him!

Katya showcased how fabulous she is when she did that incredible lift with Joe McFadden in their Argentinian Tango. Still don't think I have ever seen anything like it.

Amber probably wouldn’t have been paired with Nikita if she was part of the original casting.

That was with John Waite (i think that's his surname) of GBBO fame. I adored their partnership. Their Pirates of the Caribbean paso is still one of my favourite dances.

I loved tonight - best Halloween show, with great costumes & makeup! Thought everyone was brilliant & don’t want anyone to go!

Lewis & Katya were phenomenal - her choreography is always outstanding & also thought Karen was fantastic. Voted 1x Vicky, 1x George (as think he’s in danger but want him to stay as I think he has a lot of potential) & 3x Lewis (he was simply too good not to vote for!).

Great show & fair play to Shirley for embracing the ‘ugly’ costume!

I mean working online isn't going to be physically hard and hr can basically do his own thing, he is maybe not used to mon -frid and physically working.

This thing of saying to the pro "X is working really hard, aren't they?" has become the new version of Brucie's "your my favourite". Meaningless basically, because they're hardly likely to say "no actually Tess, they do sweet FA". Unless they're James Jordan!

I don't think George particularly has a working hard issue. Tonight's main issue was choreography. Last week music and costume didn't help. It's more than just his actual dancing.

There's been quite a few "baggy trousers" costumes that really haven't done male dancers any favours this series (Harry being tonight's victim and George last week)

Karen's OTOH were well cut for maximum appreciation of her fine leg action tonight.

I mean he's a nice young man, very pleasant, but he's a nepo baby and does his online stuff. He's not performing on stage like Amber and Lewis, or acting like Bal or Alex, or footie like Karen etc. I think probably all the others have had to push themselves.

Nikita's had quite a broad range of contestants and normally connects well with them. He doesn't seem to be pigeon-holed like some of the pros.

Layton came over as a diva (particularly in his earlier weeks, he did seem to mellow and take on feedback more in the later stages) but there was still chemistry in his and Nikita's dances.

I was a Layton sceptic, and I wasn't expecting to like La Voix much, but actually I like who Chris is; there's a lot of genuine emotion and care there when he scores well or was grateful for dodging the DO on his bad week.

George looks so fit with his long hair and eyeliner 🔥 Gorgeous teeth

Layton has just been on a thing on itv parents evening i think it. Is called, he came over really well and is funny, I like him.

I just had a Google i didn't understand why he was a nepo baby i didn't know his dad ran Aardman, and then i reas George's career is basically sitting down bless him No wonder he is tired 😀

I like him, I think he's very engaging.

Indeed!

I thought some of the marking was way off tonight.

I’ve watched Lewis and Katya 5 times in a row.
That dance was epic!

ITT used to actually tell you how many hours the celeb trained each week - can’t remember when that stopped but it did show a direct correlation between effort & results (although natural talent was always a factor obviously!)

Yes some of the scores made no sense.

Didn't watch live today as couldn't bear the VTs and scores.
Catching up now, and oh the queen of choreo that is Katya Jones! I hate CC, but what an incredible one. Don't care if Lewis is a ringer, but then I never do.

It is amazing waching human bodies move so crisply and well syncronised.

And great to see Katya dancing full blast and being matched not going for it in the dance off when it's a foregone conclusion that her duffer's day is up

There’s a synchronised jump about 1.23 in that’s just 👌👌

Absolute world class

She totally went for it and he matched her every step of the way. Incredible!