Strictly Come Dancing: Five week nine routines we loved including Rachel Stevens' Rumba and Harry Judd's Quickstep

To the history books once more...
Near perfect: Harry Judd and Aliona Vilani
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Natasha Sporn17 November 2018

It’s week nine and it’s time for Strictly Come Dancing’s trip up north to Blackpool's Tower Ballroom.

While Children In Need moves into Elstree, the glitter is packed up and boarded onto the bus for one week only.

The remaining 2018 couples will be hoping to impress with their routines on the springy floor of the best ballroom in Europe - but will any of them match these crackers?

Here are five of the best from time gone by…

Series 5 (2007): Gethin Jones and Camilla Dallerup – Waltz

Backed to Kenny Roger’s classic track If I Were A Painting, Jones and Dallerup proved they were the perfect couple as they whirled around the floor with elegance and grace.

It is a Strictly classic, hailed by many as being near the top of the “should-have-got-40” pile. We’ll let you guess who didn’t give the 10...

Series 6 (2008): Rachel Stevens and Vincent Simone – Rumba

Rumba routines can often be extremely uncomfortable to watch – either they’re too sexual or too cold – but Stevens and Simone struck it perfectly.

With a beautiful cover of Paul Weller’s You Do Something To Me, jaws were on the floor at the technical masterpiece. It scored 39 though….yes, you guessed it, Craig Revel Horwood again.

Series 9 (2011): Harry Judd and Aliona Vilani – Quickstep

The McFly man enjoyed high scores all series, eventually going on to lift the glitterball. But his Quickstep is one that lives long in the memory of Strictly fans for, quite simply, being one of the best ever seen.

Shockingly fast yet light on his feet, Judd glided around the ballroom and all the way to the top of the leader board with 39 points. We’ll let you guess again the judge who stopped a perfect 40…

Series 8 (2010): Kara Tointon and Artem Chigvintsev – Jive

The eventual champions threw all the energy they could muster at their Jive to Runaround Sue.

Tointon, best known for playing Dawn Swann in EastEnders, didn’t quite do enough for top spot but earned an impressive 34, with three judges dishing out a nine and one a seven.

Series 14 (2016): Danny Mac and Oti Mabuse – Charleston

Live for Blackpool Tower Ballroom and flanked by backing dancers, Mac and Mabuse brought the glamour and glitz in their routine to Putting On The Ritz.

The energetic 1920s dance earned them a special place in Strictly history – a 40 outside of the final.

Strictly Come Dancing is on BBC One, Saturday at 6.45pm

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