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Kai Widdrington and Delta Goodrem are currently leading the Strictly leaderboard (Ray Burmiston\/BBC)<\/p>\nThe Australian singer, 41, has been paired with professional dancer Kai Widdrington, 31, on this season of the BBC series.<\/p>\n
After coming second with a score of 29 on last week\u2019s show, they are currently topping the leaderboard during Movies Week.<\/p>\n
The pair performed an American smooth to I\u2019ll Never Love Again from A Star Is Born, and were awarded 30 points this time around.<\/p>\n
Kai Widdrington and Delta Goodrem are currently leading the Strictly leaderboard (Ray Burmiston\/BBC)<\/p>\n
Judge Motsi Mabuse told Goodrem she had a \u201cspecial talent to give feeling\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got everything it takes. I believe in you,\u201d she said, while head judge Shirley Ballas called her a \u201cforce to be reckoned with\u201d.<\/p>\n
Fellow judges Anton Du Beke and Craig Revel Horwood said they \u201cloved\u201d the performance.<\/p>\n
The first performance of the night came from former Love Island winner Dani Dyer and her professional partner Nikita Kuzmin, who performed a foxtrot to Beauty And The Beast from the film of the same name.<\/p>\n
The pair were awarded a score of 23 from the judges, with Du Beke saying he \u201cloved the attention to detail\u201d and calling it a \u201cjoy to watch\u201d.<\/p>\n
They were followed by social media star John Nellis and Katya Jones \u2013 who topped last week\u2019s leaderboard with 31 points.<\/p>\n
This week they had a couple\u2019s choice to An Irish Party In Third Class from Titanic.<\/p>\n
Revel Horwood said it was \u201ctoo heavy-footed\u201d and called the end an \u201centire tragedy\u201d, the couple were awarded 23 points.<\/p>\n
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John Nellis (Ray Burmiston\/BBC\/PA)<\/p>\n
This weekend will see the first public vote and elimination, after no celebrities were sent home following the first live show.<\/p>\n
The first performances of this season \u2013 which aired last weekend \u2013 saw Nellis top the Strictly leaderboard with Jones as they wowed the judges with a foxtrot to Alex Warren\u2019s Ordinary.<\/p>\n
The judges gave the routine 31 points, while Goodrem and Widdrington scored 29 points for their samba.<\/p>\n
The episode ended in a three-way tie for last place with a score of 15 points.<\/p>\n
Among them were Gavin And Stacey actress Melanie Walters and Aljaz Skorjanec, who performed a cha cha, ex-footballer Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis Warr, who also performed a cha cha, and Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey and Julian Caillon with their quickstep.<\/p>\n
Last weekend the first live show of this season attracted a peak of five million viewers, the BBC said.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the two-and-a-half-hour programme, an average of 4.8 million viewers tuned in to watch on BBC One as the latest batch of stars performed on the dancefloor with their professional partners live for the first time.<\/p>\n
It also marked the first live show for new presenters Emma Willis, Josh Widdicombe and Johannes Radebe, who took over from Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian singer, 41, has been paired with professional dancer Kai Widdrington, 31, on this season of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-620050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}