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Strictly Come Dancing confirms songs and dances for week three
Strictly Come Dancing has announced the songs and dances for its third week.
The 14 remaining celebrities will perform with their professional partners.
Their routines include ballroom and Latin dances, as well as a Couple’s Choice performance.
One more couple is due to leave the competition after Sunday’s results show.
Strictly Come Dancing has confirmed the songs and dances for the third week of its 2026 series.
Fourteen celebrity-professional pairs are set to perform, after Chris Appleton and Amy Dowden were eliminated the previous week.
The routines include an American Smooth, Tango, Salsa, Viennese Waltz, Samba, Charleston, Paso Doble, Argentine Tango, Couple’s Choice, Jive, Cha Cha, Rumba, Quickstep and Waltz.
The songs include tracks by Sara Bareilles, Robin S, RAYE, Ariana Grande and The Monkees.
Another couple is due to be eliminated on Sunday’s results show, which will also feature a Ballroom versus Latin routine led by Anton Du Beke and Shirley Ballas.
- Who
- Fourteen Strictly Come Dancing celebrity contestants and their professional partners
- What
- The couples’ songs and dances for week three of the 2026 series were announced.
- When
- Week three; the articles were published on 9 October 2026.
- Where
- Strictly Come Dancing airs on BBC One and iPlayer; It Takes Two airs on BBC Two.
- Why
- To announce the routines for the upcoming week of the competition.
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Chris Appleton and Amy Dowden were eliminated from the competition.
The 14 remaining pairs are scheduled to perform their week-three routines.
The results show is due to eliminate another couple and feature a Ballroom versus Latin routine.
- Remaining celebrity-professional pairs
- 14
- Eliminated the previous week
- Chris Appleton and Amy Dowden
- First listed routine
- Bethany Antonia and Nancy Xu — American Smooth to “Love Song” by Sara Bareilles
- Couple’s Choice
- Cach Mercer and Maddie Ingoldsby — “Beware.. The South London Lover Boy.” by RAYE
- Results-show routine leaders
- Anton Du Beke for Ballroom and Shirley Ballas for Latin
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