Thanks for watching along with me, glitterball gang. Our terrifying 10 now progress to the seventh live show, a mercifully non-themed affair which marks the halfway point of the contest. Blackpool is nearly in sight (he said, already regretting using the B-word so soon).

It airs at next Saturday at 6.30pm on BBC1. Meet you back here to rate the frocks, fleckerls and foxtrots. In the meantime, it's the usual advice: keeeeep dancing! Goodnight and have a fab-u-lous week.

says: "Nope, still don't like this tango from Lawrence. Posture all wrong and not enough staccato. He's the worst for me."

says: "The Ghostbusters tango was so much better tonight. I thought Lawrence might be saved but it was not to be. I do feel for him and he made such a lovely farewell speech."

says: "Ah well, at least Jowita can console herself that she's exiting the competition looking like the stone cold fox that she is and not dressed as a Thunderbird puppet like last year..."

says: "Right outcome but Lawrence is so lovely, therefore sad faces in Catalyst house tonight."

says: "Banger farewell tune and love them throwing in a full-on lift!"

adds: "Lawrence points out his parents in the audience AFTER his elimination. It's too little to late! If he'd got his whole family for a Zoom call like Will did, he might have seen another week."

says: "No surprises with the dance-off trio, although I can't understand why Jaime isn't getting votes. She seems lively and funny and she's a good dancer. It's got to be tough for her and lovely Carlos being in the DO every week."

says: "Jaime looks great dancing. She's not my favourite but surprised she was in the dance off."

adds: "Despite it not really being Tabby or Graeme's week dance-wise, I'm glad they're both through. Both have lots of potential and have danced consistently well up to now."

On the musical guest, says: "No idea who Becky Hill is. Appears to have a good voice. Shame about the (lack of) tune."

adds: "Becky Hill could have at least paid tribute to her late uncle during this performance by chasing a few nurses round the dancefloor to the sound of Yakety Sax."

On the Dracula group dance, says: "Hmm, some dancers are twirling, I think, but it could just be flashing red and black lights. Grumpypenguin is baaaaaack!"

says: "I might have enjoyed the pro dance if I could see anyone except Maddie."

says: "Loved that group dance. Definitely looked West End-worthy."

says: "Wow, that professional dance! I was actually holding my breath at times. Alexis was stunning and Nikita terrifying. Just annoying that the lighting meant we couldn't see the other dancers."

adds: "Good to see Nikita leading the troupe there. He hasn't been quite as front-and-centre this season (though that might just be my impression rather than reality). And Alexis' gymnastics skills are a great addition to the pro dances."

A rapid-fire round-up of your Halloween results show comments. says: "Just to reiterate: I hate the idea of this three-way dance-off. An unnecessary, mean-spirited gimmick. Only one good thing: having the chance to speak to the three safe couples. I've loathed this new way of not letting them have the opportunity to talk."

Haigin88 adds: "Love this programme more than anything else on telly but don't do three again. It doesn't work. Don't see the point. Should always be just two and talking up who was best. No use in hammering someone for being 'the worst'."

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There's a 95lb Chinese man with $160m behind this door. Let's get him out.

Breathing the two biggest sighs of relief tonight were and Tabby Stoecker. They both tumbled down the leaderboard and were tied at the bottom. They must have feared they were doomed for the dance-off, especially since it was a triple one, but were lifted clear of danger by viewer votes.

Probably fair because, until they had a serious off-night, both looked like going deep into the contest. Graeme's zombified samba saw his score decrease six points to 25, his lowest for four weeks.

The hotly-tipped Tabby's nervy quickstep took her a massive 12 points down to the same total – her lowest since way back in week one. Both will be glad to cast off the novelty costumes, wash off the CBeebies make-up and get back to dance basics next week.

Another actor who needs to keep her chin up is House of the Dragon star . As bookies' tip for the exit this weekend, she chose a good moment to score in the 30s for the first time. Yet when viewer votes lifted and clear of danger, Bethany still slipped into the triple dance-off.

Barring disasters, she was always likely to survive, having scored four points more than last night. But it was her second dance-off appearance in the past three weeks. Bethany's sweet, high-energy partnership with pro doesn't seem to be winning over the public.

I hope she can turn this around. She's still scored more points overall than several rivals – namely , and – so surely deserves another few weeks.

At least it wasn't third time unlucky for . The rave-loving actor has now been undeservedly dumped in a hat-trick of dance-offs, but she's performed well and survived every time. Having rightly seen off three male celebrities – , and now – it's testament to Jaime's resilience.

Her confidence is bound to be knocked, not least by the fact that head judge seems to have taken against her, but Jaime should take heart from the fact that she's overcome these hurdles and made it to the midway mark of the contest.

She's at risk of becoming this year's or – a female celebrity who doesn't quite connect with the public, so is unjustly destined to become a dance-off fixture. Time for Jaime to let go and take some risks because she's got little to lose.

Polish pocket rocket pro has had an up-and-down five years on the show. She started with a bang, winning the glitterball with wildlife presenter in her debut series. She's since suffered two early exits – with and – but reached the semi-final with pink-trousered three years ago.

Now she's out just before the midway mark with . When Jowita was paired with a handsome, stage-experienced soap actor, she must have thought she'd hit the jackpot. Shame he couldn't quite fulfil that promise. Being saddled with difficult dances and clunky concepts – a Ghostbusters tango, a Rockafeller Skank jive, a rumba as early as week three – didn't help either of them. They would be justified in feeling a little hard-done-by.

The head judge certainly didn't have a happy Halloween. Dressed as the Ice Queen, was in a decidedly frosty mood, clamping down on technical details because "we're almost midway through". This might have been a fair point if she'd applied it consistently. Instead, Shirley did little to shake off the recurring criticism that she tends to favour male contestants

She was scathing to pace-setter and undermarked scoring her just five points – three fewer than her panel neighbour Anton du Beke – and harshly implied she had no musicality. By contrast, Shirley came over all a-flutter over, saying his steamy Argentine tango "melted this ice queen".

Shirley somehow scored a point more than Jaime on Saturday, raising the real possibility that she'd vote to eliminate her. Thankfully she saw sense and agreed with her fellow judges. Let's hope she's in a better mood next week.

Who you gonna call? A taxi home, actually. Emmerdale actor had an uneven series, often struggling with nerves on the big night. Before Halloween, he'd scored 19 or 20 points for every routine – except in Icons Week, when he let loose for a Ricky Martin salsa full of spectacular lifts. It notched 30 points and took him to the dizzy position of fourth on the leaderboard.

Sadly, that proved the exception, rather than a sign of unlocked potential. Lawrence improved marginally last night, scoring 26 points for his Ghostbusters tango, so it's a shame he departs in one of his better weeks. But he was third from bottom on the scoreboard, so was always likely to feature in the three-way dance-off. As the lowest scorer left in the contest, averaging four points fewer than anyone else, it's hard to argue he didn't deserve to go.

Many had high hopes that the Glaswegian actor would be another standout Emmer-male, in the tradition of and . He's stage-schooled but as he's pointed out, it was musical theatre rather than dance training. Lawrence looked the part but never quite managed a mistake-free number with wow factor – except for that Latino heartthrob highlight.

He now heads back to the Dales, falling agonisingly short of next weekend's midway milestone. All the Dingle ladies, put your hands up and give him a warm welcome.

As the eliminated pair take a farewell turn around the ballroom to Kylie's Better The Devil You Know (tune) – and even perform one last lift – their castmates descend for creepy cuddles and the credits roll. Please stay with us for analysis and reaction.

Asked how much she enjoyed dancing with Lawrence, says: "Thank you for doing your best and putting up with my terrible singing every day. You're a kind and beautiful soul. Your aura shines so bright and I absolutely adore you. Your heart is made of gold."

says in his exit speech: "It's been the most wonderful family to be part of and the dancefloor is electric. I want to thank everyone. I'm proud of the journey and the salsa was an absolute highlight. I've loved every second."

His mum and dad are in the studio audience. Aww.

Her casting vote wasn't needed but Motsi would also have eliminated and .

There we have it. Lawrence falls victim to the first ever three-way dance-off and becomes the fifth celebrity to depart the Strictly 2026 dancefloor.