The fourth series of Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom...

started on 7 October 2006 and ended on 23 December 2006. It was presented by Bruce Forsyth

Bruce Forsyth

Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson, CBE , commonly known as Bruce Forsyth, or Brucie, is an English TV personality...

 and Tess Daly

Tess Daly

Helen Elizabeth "Tess" Daly is an English television presenter. She is married to the presenter Vernon Kay.-Early life:Daly was born in Derbyshire to Vivian , who died of emphysema, and Sylvia Daly...

, and the winner was Mark Ramprakash

Mark Ramprakash

Mark Ravin Ramprakash is an English cricketer, playing for Surrey and England. A right-handed batsman, he initially made his name playing for Middlesex, and was selected for England aged 21...

 along with his dancing partner Karen Hardy

Karen Hardy

Karen Hardy is a professional ballroom dancer, coach, teacher and adjudicator. In 1998 she won the professional International Latin American Dance Championship with Bryan Watson. She also won the United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters championships...

.

The show

For more information, see the main article.

The show works by having four judges: Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian-British dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom.-Biography:...

, Arlene Phillips

Arlene Phillips

Arlene Phillips OBE is an English choreographer, theatre director, talent scout, TV presenter, TV judge and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment...

, Len Goodman

Len Goodman

Leonard Gordon 'Len' Goodman is a British professional ballroom dancer, dance judge, and coach. He is a leading personality on television dance programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars and runs a ballroom dance school in Dartford, Kent.-Early life and career:Goodman was...

 and Bruno Tonioli

Bruno Tonioli

Bruno Tonioli is an Italian choreographer and TV personality who appears as a judge on the television dance competition Strictly Come Dancing for BBC TV in the UK, and its American adaptation Dancing with the Stars on ABC TV in the US, Tonioli co-created and appeared on the BBC talent show DanceX...

, judging each couple out of ten after each performance. When all the couples have danced, they are inserted onto the leaderboard, where the highest ranked couple will get the highest amount of points available, and the lowest ranked couple getting one point.

On the second show of the night, once the viewers' votes are in, the points from the leaderboard are added to those created by the viewer votes to find the two lowest ranked couples, and the lowest ranked couple go home.

Contestants

This year there were 14 couples: 7 male celebrities and 7 female celebrities. They were:

Celebrity	Occupation	Professional partner	Status
Nicholas Owen	BBC News BBC News BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...  broadcaster	Nicole Cutler Nicole Cutler Nicole Cutler is a professional ballroom dancer and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. She was born Nicole Westdyk in Durban, South Africa and after taking up ballet at the age of four, first tried out ballroom and Latin-American dancing at the age of twelve.In South Africa she danced...	Eliminated 1st on 7 October 2006
Mica Paris Mica Paris Mica Paris is an English soul singer, radio and television presenter, and occasional actress. Her forename is pronounced Misha.-Beginnings:Paris' roots are in soul and gospel music...	Singer and presenter	Ian Waite Ian Waite Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer, teacher and choreographer.-Biography:Waite was born in Reading, UK. He started dancing at the age of 10. Mary Richardson, a former Latin American champion put him through a rigorous medallist regime...	Eliminated 2nd on 14 October 2006
Jimmy Tarbuck Jimmy Tarbuck Jimmy Tarbuck OBE or Tarby is an English comedian. Growing up he was a schoolmate of John Lennon.His first television show was It's Tarbuck 65! on ITV in 1964. He has also hosted numerous quiz shows, including Winner Takes All, Full Swing, and Tarby's Frame Game...	Comedian	Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace Flavia Cacace , is an Italian professional dancer. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone, and both regularly appear on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. Their brand name when performing together is VincentandFlavia...	Withdrew on 14 October 2006
DJ Spoony DJ Spoony DJ Spoony is the stage name of Johnathan Joseph who is a British DJ, and former BBC Radio 1 presenter.-Radio and Dj career:...	BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...  presenter and DJ	Ola Jordan Ola Jordan Aleksandra "Ola" Jordan is a professional Latin dance specialist best known for her appearances on the British TV show Strictly Come Dancing. After winning a championship event in Poland she moved to England and began a new partnership with James Jordan...	Eliminated 3rd on 21 October 2006
Georgina Bouzova Georgina Bouzova Georgina Bouzová is an English television actress best known for her former role as Ellen Zitek in the BBC One medical drama Casualty...	Casualty Casualty Casualty may refer to:*Casualty , a person who is killed or injured in a war or disaster*Disaster, an event resulting in death, injury, or destruction... actress	James Jordan James Jordan (dancer) James Jordan is a British ballroom dancer and choreographer. His dance partner is wife Aleksandra "Ola" Jordan, with whom he turned professional in 2000.-Dancing career:...	Eliminated 4th on 28 October 2006
Jan Ravens Jan Ravens Janet "Jan" Ravens is an English actress and impressionist, famous for her voices on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers.-Early life:...	Actress and impressionist	Anton Du Beke Anton du Beke Anton du Beke is a British ballroom dancer and television presenter. His professional dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003.-Family and early life:...	Eliminated 5th on 4 November 2006
Ray Fearon Ray Fearon Fitzroy Raymond "Ray" Fearon is a British actor who has worked extensively in theatre, and is known for playing garage mechanic Nathan Harding on ITV's long-running soap opera Coronation Street.-Early life:...	Actor of stage and screen	Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup Camilla Dallerup is a British-based Danish ballroom dancer, dance teacher and model.-Dance career:Dallerup started dancing at the age of two and a half when her mother took her to her first class in Aalborg. She won the Danish Junior Championships at the age of 12...	Eliminated 6th on 11 November 2006
Peter Schmeichel Peter Schmeichel Peter Bolesław Schmeichel MBE is a retired Danish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and was voted the "World's Best Goalkeeper" in 1992 and 1993...	Professional footballer	Erin Boag Erin Boag Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, originally starting ballet and later moving into ballroom, Latin and jazz...	Eliminated 7th on 18 November 2006
Claire King Claire King Claire King is a popular English actress, best known for playing the roles of Kim Tate in the ITV Soap Opera Emmerdale from 1989 to 1999 and Karen Betts in Bad Girls from 2000 to 2004.-Biography:...	Former Emmerdale Emmerdale Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972... star	Brendan Cole Brendan Cole Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin American dancing. He is most famous for appearing on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer...	Eliminated 8th on 25 November 2006
Carol Smillie Carol Smillie Carol Patricia Smillie is a Scottish television personality, model and actress. Smillie is well-known for presenting the award winning BBC series Changing Rooms, which won her a National Television Award for Most Popular Factual Programme in 1998.She became the hostess of the British version of...	Television personality	Matthew Cutler Matthew Cutler Matthew David Cutler is an English dancer and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He was a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing.-Early life:...	Eliminated 9th on 2 December 2006
Louisa Lytton Louisa Lytton Louisa Lytton is an English actress born in Camden and living in Islington. She rose to fame in 2005 when joining EastEnders as Ruby Allen. After leaving EastEnders in late 2006, Lytton joined The Bill as PC Beth Green, who she played from May 2007 to March 2009. She also appeared on Strictly...	EastEnders EastEnders EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End... actress	Vincent Simone Vincent Simone Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy. He moved to Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom when he was 17. His professional dancing partner is Flavia Cacace, and they perform under the brand name VincentandFlavia.-Early life:...	Eliminated 10th on 9 December 2006
Emma Bunton Emma Bunton Emma Lee Bunton is an English pop singer/songwriter and TV and radio presenter. She was a member of the 1990s girl group, the Spice Girls, in which she was known as Baby Spice as she was the youngest member. In 2010, she joined the judging panel on ITV's Dancing on Ice...	Former Spice Girls Spice Girls The Spice Girls were a British pop girl group formed in 1994. The group consisted of Victoria Beckham , Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell. They were signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single, "Wannabe" in 1996, which hit number-one in more than 30...  member	Darren Bennett Darren Bennett (dancer) Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dancing, competing nationally and internationally. Darren's favourite dances are the Samba and the Foxtrot.They teach private lessons in their own studio...	Third Place on 16 December 2006
Matt Dawson Matt Dawson Matthew James Sutherland "Daws" Dawson, MBE is a retired English rugby union player who played scrum half for Wasps and Northampton Saints. During his international career he toured with the British and Irish Lions three times and was part of England's 2003 Rugby World Cup winning side...	Former rugby player	Lilia Kopylova Lilia Kopylova Lilia Andreyevna Kopylova , born 18 June 1978 in Moscow, Soviet Union, is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003...	Second Place on 23 December 2006
Mark Ramprakash Mark Ramprakash Mark Ravin Ramprakash is an English cricketer, playing for Surrey and England. A right-handed batsman, he initially made his name playing for Middlesex, and was selected for England aged 21...	Cricketer	Karen Hardy Karen Hardy Karen Hardy is a professional ballroom dancer, coach, teacher and adjudicator. In 1998 she won the professional International Latin American Dance Championship with Bryan Watson. She also won the United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters championships...	Winners on 23 December 2006

Judges' scoring summary

Team	Place	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Mark & Karen	1	27	—	32	35	36	33	27	36	28+36=64	36+27=63	34+39=73	34+40+36=110
Matt & Lilia	2	19	—	30	28	25	34	37	28	34+27=61	29+32=61	35+30=65	38+31+36=105
Emma & Darren	3	—	33	33	30	34	36	30	34	37+37=74	35+34=69	36+33=69
Louisa & Vincent	4	—	28	36	26	29	32	35	34	33+36=69	31+28=59
Carol & Matthew	5	—	25	27	29	29	27	30	30	34+34=68
Claire & Brendan	6	—	21	22	24	21	32	29	25
Peter & Erin	7	25	—	31	19	28	19	26
Ray & Camilla	8	27	—	29	30	35	26
Jan & Anton	9	—	24	18	24	25
Georgina & James	10	—	14	18	26
Spoony & Ola	11	27	—	27
Jimmy & Flavia	12	17	WD
Mica & Ian	13	—	20
Nicholas & Nicole	14	14

Additional information

• This Series saw the addition of 2 new competitive dances to Strictly Come Dancing, the Salsa
  Salsa (dance)
  Salsa is a syncretic dance form with origins in Cuba as the meeting point of Spanish and African cultures.Salsa is normally a partner dance, although there are recognized solo forms such as solo dancing "suelta" and "Rueda de Casino" where multiple couples exchange partners in a circle...
  
   danced in Week 5 and the Argentine Tango
  Argentine Tango
  Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...
  
   danced only by the semi-finalists
• In week one, the male celebrity couples danced for the judges and the public vote, while the female celebrity couples performed a group dance. This was reversed in week two. Jimmy Tarbuck did not take part in the male celebrities' group dance due to health reasons, and officially withdrew from the competition the following week. From week three, all couples were marked against each other
• Mark and Karen made Strictly Come Dancing history in week five by being the first couple who had to re-start a routine. They were forced to stop after Mark's microphone was caught in Karen's dress. In spite of this, they received another go and went on to receive the highest score of the night
• In the results show of week 10, the two couples with the lowest combined score had to perform a "dance-off" for survival. However, it was possible for viewers to calculate the points combination that each couple received beforehand, which indicated that the result was actually unaffected by the dance-off
• Jimmy Tarbuck's withdrawal meant that the final did not have three couples as planned. Instead the two remaining couples performed five dances each (for the previous two years the final had had three couple performing four dances each). The dances performed in the final were favourite ballroom dance (for Mark, the Tango
  Tango (ballroom)
  Ballroom Tango is a ballroom dance that branched away from its original Argentine roots by allowing European, American, Hollywood, and competitive influences into the style and execution of the dance....
  
  ; for Matt, the Waltz
  Waltz
  The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in time, performed primarily in closed position.- History :There are several references to a sliding or gliding dance,- a waltz, from the 16th century including the representations of the printer H.S. Beheim...
  
  ), favourite Latin dance (for Mark, the Salsa
  Salsa (dance)
  Salsa is a syncretic dance form with origins in Cuba as the meeting point of Spanish and African cultures.Salsa is normally a partner dance, although there are recognized solo forms such as solo dancing "suelta" and "Rueda de Casino" where multiple couples exchange partners in a circle...
  
  ; for Matt, the Samba
  Samba
  Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival...
  
  ), a group Viennese Waltz, a judges' choice (here the judges chose a piece of music- (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher – and allowed the couples to choose which dance to perform. Matt performed a Quickstep, and Mark a Samba), and a freestyle show dance
• Lilia Kopylova made Strictly history by becoming the first professional winner to reach a second final
• Mark Ramprakash's victory meant that this was the second consecutive series which had been won by a cricketer

Highest and lowest scoring performances

The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows:

Dance	Best dancer(s)	Best score	Worst dancer(s)	Worst score
Cha Cha Cha Cha-cha-cha (dance) The Cha-cha-cha is the name of a dance of Cuban origin.It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrín in 1953...	Louisa Lytton	36	Matt Dawson	19
Jive Jive (dance) In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1930s. It was originally presented to the public as 'Jive' in 1934 by Cab Calloway. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance...	Louisa Lytton	36	Jan Ravens Georgina Bouzova	18
Rumba Rumba (dance) Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.In some contexts, "rumba" is used as shorthand for Afro-Cuban rumba, a group of dances related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music. The most common Afro-Cuban rumba is the guaguancó...	Emma Bunton	34	Georgina Bouzova	14
Paso doble	Emma Bunton	37	Peter Schmeichel	19
Samba Samba (ballroom) Among ballroom dances, samba is a lively, rhythmical one. It is related to the traditional samba styles of Brazil, but differs from them considerably. Its music is in 2/4 or 4/4 time.-Origins:...	Emma Bunton Mark Ramprakash	36	Peter Schmeichel	19
Waltz Waltz The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in time, performed primarily in closed position.- History :There are several references to a sliding or gliding dance,- a waltz, from the 16th century including the representations of the printer H.S. Beheim...	Matt Dawson	38	Nicholas Owen	14
Quickstep Quickstep The quickstep is a light-hearted member of the standard ballroom dances. The movement of the dance is fast and powerfully flowing and sprinkled with syncopations. The upbeat melodies that quickstep is danced to make it suitable for both formal and informal events...	Matt Dawson	36	Jan Ravens	24
Foxtrot	Matt Dawson	35	Jan Ravens Claire King	24
Tango Tango (dance) Tango dance originated in the area of the Rio de la Plata , and spread to the rest of the world soon after....	Louisa Lytton Emma Bunton	35	DJ Spoony	27
Viennese Waltz Viennese Waltz Viennese Waltz is the genre of a ballroom dance. At least three different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in ballroom dancing, danced to the music of Viennese Waltz.What is now called...	Mark Ramprakash	36	Jan Ravens	25
American Smooth	Matt Dawson Emma Bunton	34	Carol Smillie	27
Salsa Salsa (dance) Salsa is a syncretic dance form with origins in Cuba as the meeting point of Spanish and African cultures.Salsa is normally a partner dance, although there are recognized solo forms such as solo dancing "suelta" and "Rueda de Casino" where multiple couples exchange partners in a circle...	Mark Ramprakash	40	Claire King	21
Argentine Tango Argentine Tango Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...	Mark Ramprakash	39	Matt Dawson	30

Number of Tens

Team	Total No. of Tens	Week	Judge(s) who gave a ten	Dance Performed	Score
Mark/Karen	7
		11	Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli	Argentine Tango	39
		12	Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli	Salsa	40
Matt/Lilia	4
		7	Len Goodman	Waltz	37
		12	Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli	Waltz	38
		2006 Christmas Special	Len Goodman	Waltz	37
Emma/Darren	3
		9	Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli	Waltz	37
			Bruno Tonioli	Paso Doble	37
Louisa/Vincent	1
		3	Bruno Tonioli	Jive	36

Mark and Karen received two additional tens from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli when they performed a Jive on the series five Christmas Special in 2007.

Guide to Dances

The following table shows which dance each couple does and the order of elimination:

Contestants	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12 Final
Mark & Karen	Cha Cha Cha	Group Swing	Tango	Paso Doble	Salsa	American Smooth	Rumba	Viennese Waltz	Foxtrot, Samba	Waltz, Jive	Quickstep, Argentine Tango	Tango, Salsa, Samba
Matt & Lilia	Cha Cha Cha	Group Swing	Tango	Paso Doble	Salsa	American Smooth	Waltz	Jive	Quickstep, Rumba	Viennese Waltz, Samba	Foxtrot, Argentine Tango	Waltz, Samba, Quickstep
Emma & Darren	Group Mambo	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Viennese Waltz	Samba	Cha Cha Cha	American Smooth	Waltz, Paso Doble	Tango, Rumba	Argentine Tango, Salsa
Louisa & Vincent	Group Mambo	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Salsa	Samba	Tango	Paso Doble	Viennese Waltz, Cha Cha Cha	American Smooth, Rumba
Carol & Matthew	Group Mambo	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Salsa	American Smooth	Cha Cha Cha	Waltz	Viennese Waltz, Samba
Claire & Brendan	Group Mambo	Rumba	Jive	Foxtrot	Salsa	American Smooth	Tango	Samba
Peter & Erin	Waltz	Group Swing	Tango	Paso Doble	Viennese Waltz	Samba	Foxtrot
Ray & Camilla	Cha Cha Cha	Group Swing	Tango	Paso Doble	Viennese Waltz	Samba
Jan & Anton	Group Mambo	Quickstep	Jive	Foxtrot	Viennese Waltz
Georgina & James	Group Mambo	Rumba	Jive	Foxtrot
Spoony & Ola	Cha Cha Cha	Group Swing	Tango
Mica & Ian	Group Mambo	Rumba
Jimmy & Flavia	Waltz	Withdrew
Nicholas & Nicole	Waltz

Couples' Highest Scored Performances

Contestants	Week(s)	Dance(s)	Score	Best Mark
Mark & Karen	12	Salsa	40	10
Matt & Lilia	12	Waltz	38	10
Emma & Darren	9	Waltz, Paso Doble	37	10
Louisa & Vincent	3, 9, Christmas Special	Jive, Cha Cha Cha, Jive	36	10
Carol & Matthew	9	Viennese Waltz, Samba	34	9
Claire & Brendan	6	American Smooth	32	9
Peter & Erin	3	Tango	31	9
Ray & Camilla	5	Viennese Waltz	35	9
Jan & Anton	5	Viennese Waltz	25	7
Georgina & James	4	Foxtrot	26	8
Spoony & Ola	1, 3	Cha Cha Cha, Tango	27	8
Jimmy & Flavia	1	Waltz	17	5
Mica & Ian	2	Rumba	20	6
Nicholas & Nicole	1	Waltz	14	5

Average Chart

Rank by average	Competition finish	Couple	Total	Number of dances	Average
1	3	Emma & Darren	442	13	34.0
2	1	Mark & Karen	536	16	33.5
3	4	Louisa & Vincent	348	11	31.6
4	2	Matt & Lilia	493	16	30.8
5	5	Carol & Matthew	265	9	29.4
5	8	Ray & Camilla	147	5	29.4
7	11	Spoony & Ola	54	2	27.0
8	6	Claire & Brendan	174	7	24.9
9	7	Peter & Erin	148	6	24.7
10	9	Jan & Anton	91	4	22.8
11	13	Mica & Ian	20	1	20.0
12	10	Georgina & James	58	3	19.3
13	12	Jimmy & Flavia	17	1	17.0
14	14	Nicholas & Nicole	14	1	14.0