Here are all the marks and results from the leaderboard of Strictly Come Dancing 2023 – Week 2.
Saturday saw the couples performing live for the second time this year after their debut performances last week. As usual, there was no elimination on the first weekend but the judges still scored all the performances.
In the weekend’s show, the judges once again marked all of the second routines out of 40 and those scores were added to last week’s to give highs of 65 and lows of 31.
After the celebrity and pro couples had performed twice, Layton Williams was on top with a total of 65 points, inching ahead of Amanda Abbington on 61 points.
At the other end, bottom was Les Dennis with just 31 points from his two dances after a Salsa, with Nikita Kanda and Jody Cundy also in the danger zone.
The public then had their chance to vote to help determine who left Strictly in the first results. Viewer votes were combined with the below scores to determine the bottom two.
In Sunday’s results, the lowest ranked celebrities were revealed as Les Dennis & Nancy Xu and Nikita Kanda & Gorka Márquez who had to dance again.
The judges then decided who to save with Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke all choosing to save Nikita. As a result, Les became the first celebrity to be eliminated. Although her vote was not needed, Shirley said she would’ve also saved Nikita.
Here’s a recap of how this week’s Strictly scores look…
Strictly Come Dancing 2023 scoreboard and marks – Week 2
| Celebrity | Dance | Scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig | Motsi | Shirley | Anton | Week 1 | Total | ||
| Layton Williams | Quickstep | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 29 | 65 |
| Amanda Abbington | Salsa | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 61 |
| Ellie Leach | Foxtrot | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 29 | 60 |
| Angela Rippon | Foxtrot | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 28 | 59 |
| Nigel Harman | Viennese Waltz | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 32 | 59 |
| Bobby Brazier | Charleston | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 29 | 58 |
| Angela Scanlon | Quickstep | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 52 |
| Annabel Croft | Cha Cha | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 28 | 50 |
| Eddie Kadi | Cha Cha | 3 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 43 |
| Krishnan Guru Murphy | Foxtrot | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 42 |
| Adam Thomas | Tango | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 42 |
| Zara McDermott | Quickstep | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 42 |
| Jody Cundy | Quickstep | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 37 |
| Nikita Kanda | Charleston | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 36 |
| Les Dennis | Samba | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 31 |
Strictly Come Dancing continues on Sunday night at 7:15PM on BBC One.
The 15 couples will find out the result of the first public vote, and the two overall lowest scoring couples will go head-to-head in the first dance-off of the series. Plus, singer-songwriter Jorja Smith will also be performing in the Ballroom.
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