{"id":93155,"date":"2025-10-26T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=93155"},"modified":"2025-10-26T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:50:25","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-sees-a-salsa-comeback-and-a-playful-nod-to-tess-and-claudia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/strictly-come-dancing-sees-a-salsa-comeback-and-a-playful-nod-to-tess-and-claudia\/93155\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing sees a salsa comeback and a playful nod to Tess and Claudia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During tonight\u2019s <em>Strictly Come Dancing<\/em>, the focus was mostly on the contestants, but there was a lighthearted moment for hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman. At the start, they thanked fans for the outpouring of support after announcing they will be leaving the show, but talk of their departure was kept brief throughout the episode.<\/p>\n<p>The moment came at the very end of the night, after La Voix and her professional partner Alja\u017e \u0160korjanec closed the show with a sizzling salsa to Cher\u2019s 1998 hit <em>Strong Enough<\/em>. Just before receiving feedback from the judges, La Voix made a cheeky comment to Tess, saying, \u201cOh Tess, you\u2019re still here!\u201d Tess laughed and replied, \u201cI\u2019m still here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair had opened the show with a heartfelt message, acknowledging the \u201cbeautiful messages\u201d from fans and reminding everyone that there were still eight weeks of the competition and another Strictly champion to crown.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the evening, the couples danced to hits from musical icons past and present, including Prince, Ariana Grande, and Cher. La Voix and Alja\u017e impressed the judges, scoring 28 points \u2014 a huge improvement from last week\u2019s 14 points. That score put them just above the bottom-placed George Clarke and Alexis Warr.<\/p>\n<p>Several other couples, including Karen Carney, Ellie Goldstein, and Balvinder Sopal, also scored 28 points, while Lewis Cope led the leaderboard with 34 points. Vicky Pattinson and Amber Davies followed closely behind on 33 points each.<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s over to the viewers at home. Their votes will be added to the judges\u2019 scores to decide which couples face the dreaded dance-off on Sunday night\u2019s results show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During tonight\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing, the focus was mostly on the contestants, but there was a lighthearted moment for hosts\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":93156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[20564],"class_list":["post-93155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv","tag-strictly-come-dancing"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}