{"id":37642,"date":"2023-10-07T21:50:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T19:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1903657"},"modified":"2023-10-08T08:42:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T06:42:16","slug":"strictly-come-dancings-shirley-ballas-awards-first-10-of-2023-series","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/strictly-come-dancings-shirley-ballas-awards-first-10-of-2023-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Come Dancing\u2019s Shirley Ballas awards first 10 of 2023 series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Comedian Eddie Kadi dazzled the judging panel with a Men in Black inspired performance. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Molly Moss\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 07 October 2023 at 19:50 PM<\/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><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It might only be Week 3 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/strictly-come-dancing-2023-release-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strictly Come Dancing 2023<\/a>, but we already have our first 10 of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/eddie-kadi-strictly-come-dancing-2023-contestant\/\">Eddie Kadi<\/a> and his professional partner <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Karen Hauer<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">performed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a Men in Black inspired performance for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Movie Week tonight (7th October), and went on to score an impressive 34 for their dance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Craig Revel Horwood, Anton Du Beke and Motsi Mabuse all awarded the couple with 8s, while the 10 came from Shirley Ballas, who exclaimed: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eddie when you do something well it needs rewarding. This was slick; it had style; it was edgy; it was entertaining; and you found your groove. I absolutely loved it\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Motsi heaped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/eddie-kadi-strictly-come-dancing-family-exclusive-newsupdate\/\">Eddie<\/a> with praise, saying \u201cthe music you have in your body is absolutely incredible\u201d, while Anton called the performance \u201cm<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">agical\u201d.<\/span><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Craig was also effusive, adding: \u201cI love couples choice because you can get the celebrity to work to their strength. And this is your strength.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The whopping score places Eddie and Karen second on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/strictly-come-dancing-2023-leaderboard\/\">leaderboard<\/a>, behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/strictly-judges-angela-scanlon-best-number-newsupdate\/\">Angela Scanlon and Carlos Gu<\/a>, who danced the Charleston to a song from musical Damn Yankees and earned a score of 35.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anton Du Beke called their <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">performance \u201cbrilliant\u201d and \u201cmagical\u201d, describing it as \u201cthe best number I\u2019ve seen on the whole series yet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other strong scores tonight came from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/strictly-come-dancing-2023-line-up-contestants\/\">Bobby Brazier<\/a> and Diane Buswell with 32 points, their highest score to date, a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nd Ellie Leach and Vito Coppola with 33.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong> more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/strictly-come-dancing-2023-songs-and-dances\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Strictly Come Dancing songs and dances revealed for week 2<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/strictlys-come-dancing-2023-amy-dowden-returns-newsupdate\/#\">Strictly\u2019s Amy Dowden returns to live shows for first time since diagnosis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul> <div class=\"brightcove embed\"> <div class=\"embed__intrinsic\"> <div class=\"brightcove__player vjs-playlist-player-container\"> <video data-video-id=\"6337855136112\" data-account=\"69912529001\" data-player=\"ByeOf0VZEl\" data-embed=\"default\" data-application-id=\"\" controls=\"\" class=\"video-js\"> <\/video> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/69912529001\/ByeOf0VZEl_default\/index.min.js\"\/> <p><strong>Strictly Come Dancing continues on BBC One at 6:20pm on Saturday 7th October 2023. 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