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'Strictly Come Dancing' week 8 songs and dances revealed in full

Molly Rainford and Carlos Gu will be hoping to avoid the Strictly Come Dancing dance off. (BBC)
Molly Rainford and Carlos Gu will be hoping to avoid the Strictly Come Dancing dance off. (BBC)

Strictly Come Dancing's week eight songs and dances line-up has been announced, revealing how each couple will be bidding for a place at Blackpool's Tower Ballroom.

Next weekend sees Strictly's first return to the iconic dance venue since before the pandemic, making it even more of a special milestone for the couples than ever before.

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But there is still one week of live show and voting to get through before the Blackpool visit, so this week couples will be pulling out all the stops in their bid to make it up North.

Will Hamza Yassin and Jowita Przystal finally score 40? (BBC)
Will Hamza Yassin and Jowita Przystal finally score 40? (BBC)

Last week's dance off survivors Molly Rainford and Carlos Gu are set to make a comeback with a Rumba to 'All The Man That I Need' by Whitney Houston this Saturday.

At the other end of the leaderboard, favourites Hamza Yassin and Jowita Przystal will be hoping to finally get a perfect 40 with their Couple's Choice to 'Jerusalema - Remix' by Master KG feat. Burna Boy and Nomcebo Zikode.

Tony Adams and Katya Jones were in last place on last week's leaderboard, although they managed to avoid the dance off, and will be aiming for better scores with a Jive to 'Land of 1,000 Dances' by Wilson Pickett.

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Last weekend, Tyler West and Dianne Buswell had an uncharacteristically low score - will they bee back on form with their Paso Doble to 'Unstoppable' by E.S. Posthumus?

Tyler West and Dianne Buswell are aiming to be back on form. (BBC)
Tyler West and Dianne Buswell are aiming to be back on form. (BBC)

Ellie Taylor and Johannes Radebe will also be hoping for higher scores this time with a Charleston to 'Friendship' by Elaine Paige and Bernard Cribbins, while Fleur East and Vito Coppola will be trying to avoid the dance off again with a Samba to 'Hot Hot Hot' by Arrow.

Helen Skelton and Gorka Marquez are going Latin this week with a Salsa to 'Despacito' by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber.

The remaining two couples show off their ballroom skills this week - Kym Marsh and Graziano Di Prima in an American Smooth to 'Chasing Cars' by Cinematic Pop, and Will Mellor and Nancy Xu in a Waltz to 'Three Times A Lady' by the Commodores.

Strictly Come Dancing continues on Saturday at 6.55pm on BBC One.

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