{"id":25248,"date":"2022-11-06T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1733394"},"modified":"2022-11-06T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:28:10","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-week-7-recap-best-moments-as-show-reaches-halfway-mark","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/strictly-come-dancing-week-7-recap-best-moments-as-show-reaches-halfway-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing Week 7 recap: Best moments as show reaches halfway mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Grace Henry\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 06 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The dancing continued this weekend on <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/talent-shows\/strictly-come-dancing-2022-release-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Strictly Come Dancing<\/a>, as the show reached its halfway mark. And there were lots of surprises along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside his professional dance partner <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/strictly-come-dancing-professional-dancer-jowita-przystal\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Jowita Przystal<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/hamza-yassin-strictly-come-dancing-2022-contestant-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Hamza Yassin<\/a> opened the show, performing a Cha Cha Cha to I Can\u2019t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch).<\/p>\n<p>The TV presenter well and truly impressed the judges with Shirley Ballas and Motsi Mabuse calling it \u201cthe best they\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the performance, fans flocked to Twitter as they <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/strictly-come-dancing-hamza-yassin-winner-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">tipped Hamza to win Strictly 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can <strong>take a look at our video below<\/strong>\u00a0to see our five favourite moments from this week.<\/p> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove\" embed=\"\"> <div class=\"&quot;embed__intrinsic&quot;\"> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove__player\" vjs-playlist-player-container=\"\"> <video data-video-id=\"6315056149112\" data-account=\"69912529001\" data-player=\"ByeOf0VZEl\" data-embed=\"&quot;default&quot;\" data-application-id=\"\" controls=\"\" class=\"&quot;video-js&quot;\"\/><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script src=\"&quot;\/\/players.brightcove.net\/69912529001\/ByeOf0VZEl_default\/index.min.js&quot;\"\/><p>Another talking point from the night came after Ellie Taylor and Johannes Radebe\u2019s Rumba. While it was agreed that it wasn\u2019t the comedian\u2019s best performance, <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/strictly-fans-shock-judges-ellie-taylor-low-score-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">viewers were left in shock as Ellie received an extremely low score<\/a>, with Craig awarding her just three points for the dance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was totally undermarked by Craig and Shirley. They gave more points to most dancers in the first week. I hope everyone gets behind Ellie and Johannes,\u201d one said.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t the only thing fans picked up on this weekend, as viewers called out <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/strictly-come-dancing-shirley-ballas-dianne-mistake-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Shirley Ballas for making an awkward mistake two weeks in a row<\/a>.<\/p> <p>Fans noticed that the head judge had called professional dancer Dianne Buswell the wrong name twice, while commenting on her and her celebrity partner Tyler West\u2019s performances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer name is DIANNE, Shirley. That\u2019s twice she\u2019s called her Diana,\u201d one said, as another added: \u201c\u201dFAO: Shirley Ballas. Her name is Dianne, not Diana. Kind regards, The nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a much better weekend for <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/helen-skelton-strictly-come-dancing-2022-contestant-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Helen Skelton<\/a>, as she scored her highest results of season 20, bagging 37 points for her Jive.<\/p>\n<p>This was the highest score for a Jive so far this year, and it put Helen in joint second place on the leaderboard with Kym Marsh \u2013 go, Helen!<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, for <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/talent-shows\/tyler-west-strictly-come-dancing-2022-contestant-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Tyler West<\/a> it wasn\u2019t his best week, as he fell down the leaderboard following some mistakes during his Viennese Waltz. So, what was the reason for this?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve just got a big bum! Ugh!\u201d he replied in response to Craig\u2019s comments that his \u201cbottom was sticking out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fair play.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;editor-content\" mb-lg=\"\" hidden-print=\"\" js-piano-locked-content=\"\" data-placement=\"&quot;Body&quot;\">\n<p><strong>Strictly Come Dancing airs on Saturdays and Sundays on BBC One. <\/strong><strong>Looking for something else to watch? 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For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0<a title=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/&quot;\" href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-safelink=\"&quot;true&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;1&quot;\">Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Grace Henry Published: Sunday, 06 November 2022 at 12:00 am The dancing continued this weekend on Strictly Come Dancing, as the show reached its halfway mark. And there were lots of surprises along the way. 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Alongside his professional dance partner Jowita Przystal, Hamza Yassin opened the show, performing a Cha Cha Cha to I&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/25248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}