Strictly Come Dancing 2021 Final: Rose and Giovanni lift the Glitterball in emotional finale

Rose Ayling-Ellis was the hot favourite going into the final – and even more so when competitor AJ Odudu was forced to pull out with an injury,…

Strictly Come Dancing 2021 Final, review: historic night as Rose and Giovanni are crowned champions

The finalists had been introduced dancing in front of huge glowing stars in an opening pro dance to the strains of Boy Meets Girl’s Waiting for a…

Strictly Come Dancing 2021, semi-final results: Rhys Stephenson misses out on the grand final

No one ever wants to leave Strictly, but it’s particularly gutting to be eliminated in the semi-final, just one week shy of the season’s big finish. This…

Strictly Come Dancing 2021, semi-final results, live: Rhys Stephenson misses out on the grand final

No one ever wants to leave Strictly, but it’s particularly gutting to be eliminated in the semi-final, just one week shy of the season’s big finish. This…

Strictly Come Dancing 2021: Week 12 semi-final, live – the girls top a high-scoring leaderboard

Well, the two-dance semi-final usually sees the standard drop as the celebrities struggle with twice the workload, but not this year. AJ Odudu and Rose Ayling-Ellis are…

Is the BBC telling the truth about Strictly 2021 scores? The data says no

As you might have guessed, Craig is the meanest judge – or, put another way, the most rigorous. On average, the panel’s resident panto villain scores every…

Strictly Come Dancing 2021: quarter-final results, live – Dan Walker’s journey comes to an end

The judges were in agreement Our original quartet were reunited this weekend following two shows with Covid absences, and they mainly concurred on Saturday’s dances – though…

Strictly Come Dancing 2021: Week 11, live – Rose Ayling-Ellis’s leap of faith puts her on top

It was all about the lifts in this eventful quarter-final. Four routines featured our celebrities lifting or being lifted, though it didn’t quite go to plan for…

Strictly Come Dancing 2021: Week 10 results, live – Tilly Ramsay heads home after losing her third dance-off

Neither celebrity was a stranger to the red light: both Ramsay and Stephenson had appeared in two previous dance-offs. And they were closely matched in many ways,…

Strictly Come Dancing 2021: week 10 – John Whaite is back on top with a fiery Argentine tango

Every week, the judges have commented on Stephenson’s speed and energy, so how would he cope with a slow waltz? Pretty well, in fact. This was by…

Strictly Come Dancing 2021: week 10, live – John Whaite is back on top with a fiery Argentine tango

Every week, the judges have commented on Stephenson’s speed and energy, so how would he cope with a slow waltz? Pretty well, in fact. This was by…

Womanhood, review: what exactly can British feminists agree on these days?

“My journey through life has not been an easy one,” confessed Shirley Ballas in the opening minutes of BBC Two’s “Womanhood”. Over the course of the 90-minute…