{"id":807296,"date":"2026-10-19T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807296\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:18:10","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-results-sarah-storeys-shania-twain-tango-fails-to-impress-the-judges-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807296\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing results: Sarah Storey\u2019s Shania Twain tango fails to impress the judges much"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great Britain\u2019s greatest Paralympian, Sarah Storey, became the third celebrity to be voted out<\/a> of this year\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing, in a weekend more noticeable for events off the dance floor than on. Icons Week saw the usual parade of glitz, glam and pomp, with Love Island winner Cach Mercer and actress Jaime Winstone taking advantage of frontrunner Delta Goodrem\u2019s absence to jointly top the leaderboard. However, it was the audible overexcitement from the professional dancers and celebrities in the \u201cClauditorium\u201d that hogged the limelight.<\/p>\n

Sunday night, mercifully, was a more sober affair. Where once results night could be a little soporific compared to the razzmatazz of Saturdays, this series they have been a welcome respite. Not least because the new presenting trio<\/a> of Emma Willis, Josh Widdicombe and Johannes Radebe seem far more settled in their Sunday roles. In truth, the dance-off was a formality. As soon as Shaun Wright-Phillips \u2013 the only contestant Storey could realistically have beaten in a dance-off \u2013 posted a 28 for his James Brown Couples Choice, the Paralympic swimmer and cyclist was doomed. So it proved, with all four judges opting to save actress Bethany Antonia and her partner Nancy Xu.<\/p>\n

Storey\u2019s tango, as \u201cicon\u201d Shania Twain, was a decidedly flat and lifeless affair. Any hints of performance there might have been were smothered by Storey\u2019s voluminous wig and flowy leopard-print dress. She looked uncomfortable, as hinted at by comments made by the judges before the dance-off. \u201cDo you want to be here next week? Show us that,\u201d said Motsi Mabuse to Storey and Antonia. \u201cLook like you absolutely want to be here,\u201d echoed Shirley Ballas. Antonia certainly wants to be here, as seen by her sparkling cha-cha-cha tribute to Aretha Franklin. What the routine lacked in technical excellence, it made up for in sheer attitude. Storey could not hope to match it. It didn\u2019t impress the judges much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain\u2019s greatest Paralympian, Sarah Storey, became the third celebrity to be voted out of this year\u2019s Strictly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,5343,168438,96,5438,1598,3133,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-culture","tag-culture-editors-choice","tag-entertainment","tag-standard","tag-strictly-come-dancing","tag-television","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}