BBC Strictly Come Dancing couples could be hit by 'curse' during Musicals week
02.12.2023 - 08:15
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While the remaining Strictly Come Dancing couples will be hoping to impress this week, they may want to reconsider taking the top spot on the leaderboard. The 2023 run of the BBC One dance contest reaches the quarter-final stages on Saturday night (December 2).
The Glitterball trophy is now very much in sight and this weekend, they'll be bringing the theatrics of the stage to the ballroom with the return of the much-loved Musicals week.
Ellie Leach and Vito Coppola will perform a Quickstep to 'Belle' from Beauty and the Beast as Annabel Croft and Johannes Radebe will Foxtrot to 'For Good' from Wicked and Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin will perform a Paso Doble to 'Backstage Romance' from Moulin Rouge.
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Bobby Brazier and Dianne Buswell will Salsa to 'I've Had the Time of My Life' from Dirty Dancing while Nigel Harman and Katya Jones will dance the Charleston to 'Step in Time' from Mary Poppins.
But new research from William Hill Vegas has revealed that none of the previous nine contestants who claimed the top score in the quarter-finals of Strictly have gone on to win the series, giving prominence to an emerging "quarter-final curse" ahead of this weekend’s show.
The last person to top the leaderboard in the 11th week and go on to lift the Glitterball trophy was singer Jay McGuiness all the way back in 2015. Since then, seven seasons have passed where the contestants to receive the biggest or joint-biggest score in this crucial stage of the competition have failed to go all the way.
Most recently in Series 20, the