“Strictly Come Dancing” Halloween Spectacular

Posted on October 28, 2011

This weekend sees the “Strictly Come Dancing” Halloween Spectacular. Tomorrow night the 11 remaining couples will don ghoulish and ghostly costumes, and take to the dancefloor with an array of, ahem, devilishly daring ballroom and Latin routines.

In the meantime, take a sneaky peek at these photos of Nancy and Anton rehearsing with… a coffin.  This week they will be dancing a rumba to “Spooky” by Dusty Springfield.

Robbie Savage will be given a “make-under” by Ola before they dance the paso doble to Michael Jackson’s “Bad”.  Robbie’s glamorous locks will be curled in tribute to Michael Jackson.

Jason and Kristina will be dancing to a quickstep to “Bewitched” by Steve Lawrence, while Lulu has taken a leaf out of Widdy’s book and will be make a grand entrance on set for her paso by flying in on a high wire; she will be dancing with Brendan to ACDC’s “Highway To Hell”.

The Halloween Spectacular will air at 6.30pm on BBC1 on Saturday, October 29, with the results show following on Sunday, October 30 at 7.25.

Photographs © BBC

Nicola Rayner

Nicola Rayner was editor of Dance Today from 2010 to 2015. She has written for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Independent and Time Out Buenos Aires, where she cut her teeth as a dance journalist working on the tango section. Today she continues to dance everything from ballroom to breakdance, with varying degrees of success. Her debut novel, The Girl Before You, was published last year in paperback, ebook and audiobook.