JLS singer JB Gill and stand-in professional partner Lauren Oakley have scored the joint highest of this year’s series of Strictly Come Dancing, as Amy Dowden watched from the studio. The Welsh professional dancer, who is normally Gill’s partner, missed last Sunday’s results programme after being taken to Barnet Hospital from the BBC One show’s production centre, Elstree Studios, as a “precaution” after she began “feeling unwell”. Oakley, 33, who does not have a partner for this year’s series of the BBC dancing show, stood in for her, performing a Bruno Mars medley with Gill on Saturday’s show, for a score of 39.
Reality TV star Pete Wicks opened the show performing as Freddie Mercury (Guy Levy/BBC/PA) “I think everybody that dances commercial, hip hop, street dance feels represented, because you gave it the true essence with a swag, you know, bumping up low, keeping down there.” Craig Revel Horwood said: “It wasn’t that good, there were two moments where the synchronicity was out. “But my goodness, commercial is your thing.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.” Before the performance Dowden, 34, said she, Gill and Oakley had been a “real dream team”. She watched with presenter Claudia Winkleman, wearing an all-black outfit and poppy and applauding the couples as they came up the stairs.
Turning to Dowden, Winkleman asked: “You three did this together this week, didn’t you?” Dowden replied: “Yes, it’s been a real dream team, even to t.