Miranda star Sarah Hadland and EastEnders’ Jamie Borthwick jointly topped the Strictly Come Dancing leaderboard after a dramatic Halloween week. Actress Hadland and reigning Strictly champion Vito Coppola secured a score of 38 by impressing the judges with their heated Argentine tango to Ready Or Not by Fugees which was filled with challenging lifts and graceful footwork. Judges Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke both declared it the “dance of the night”, while Craig Revel Horwood noted Hadland had an issue with her first lift but he still thought it was “the most wonderful Argentine tango”.
Actor Borthwick and his dance partner Michelle Tsiakkas picked up the same score for their playful American smooth to The Addams Family theme while dressed as brother and sister duo Wednesday and Pugsley Addams. Head judge Shirley Ballas hailed it as “pure genius” and complimented how they moved across the floor while Revel Horwood thought it was “incredible”. Love Island star Tasha Ghouri dazzled the judges with her ghoulish samba to I Like To Move It by Reel 2 Real while dressed as a Frankenstein-style monster, which landed a score of 37, the highest for a samba on Halloween week in the show’s history.
Ghouri was painted blue and wore a pink and purple swirled dress, while her dance partner Aljaz Skorjanec donned a Hawaiian-style top and bright orange short set over painted green skin. Du Beke said: “This week was about as good a week as you could possibly have”, to .
