Strictly Come Dancing 2020: week four – live | Television and radio

Are we all ready for Judge Anton? Loins girded? Reinforcement position assumed?

Strictly Come Bingo This Week: A sip of cooking sherry for the following to occur:

• Retraction
• Swivel
• Fringes
• A thief 10
• Anton says “wonderful”

Question of the day: How is The Hit List still on TV? I love a music quiz, but this one manages to be both hectic and boring.

This celebrity special has Dev Griffin on it. He is a Radio 1 DJ. This makes him the greatest Hit List player of all time.

Good evening everyone and welcome to this week’s Strictly Come Dancing liveblog! We’ve made it to week 4, but it’s starting to look a bit like the wheels are falling off the Strictly glitterbus; Katya and Nicola had to leave the show after Katya contracted Covid, and Motsi is in quarantine after having to make an urgent trip home to Germany.

He’ll be back in a couple of weeks, but in the meantime Anton is replacing as a guest judge because 2020 apparently wasn’t traumatic enough. Send thoughts and prayers to the good ship Strictly, and with any luck we will hold the show together until Christmas with a combination of sparkly duct tape and crossed fingers.

Kick-off tonight is 7.10pm, so please sprinkle goodwill and happiness in the comment box below. I’ll see you soon!