Strictly Come Dancing (series 3)
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The third series of Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom...

started on 15 October 2005 and ended on 17 December 2005. It was presented by Bruce Forsyth
Bruce Forsyth
Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson, CBE , commonly known as Bruce Forsyth, or Brucie, is an English TV personality...

 and Tess Daly
Tess Daly
Helen Elizabeth "Tess" Daly is an English television presenter. She is married to the presenter Vernon Kay.-Early life:Daly was born in Derbyshire to Vivian , who died of emphysema, and Sylvia Daly...

, and the winner was Darren Gough
Darren Gough
Darren Gough is a retired English cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him...

 along with his dancing partner Lilia Kopylova
Lilia Kopylova
Lilia Andreyevna Kopylova , born 18 June 1978 in Moscow, Soviet Union, is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003...

.

The show

The show works by having four judges: Craig Revel Horwood
Craig Revel Horwood
Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian-British dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom.-Biography:...

, Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips OBE is an English choreographer, theatre director, talent scout, TV presenter, TV judge and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment...

, Len Goodman
Len Goodman
Leonard Gordon 'Len' Goodman is a British professional ballroom dancer, dance judge, and coach. He is a leading personality on television dance programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars and runs a ballroom dance school in Dartford, Kent.-Early life and career:Goodman was...

 and Bruno Tonioli
Bruno Tonioli
Bruno Tonioli is an Italian choreographer and TV personality who appears as a judge on the television dance competition Strictly Come Dancing for BBC TV in the UK, and its American adaptation Dancing with the Stars on ABC TV in the US, Tonioli co-created and appeared on the BBC talent show DanceX...

, judging each couple out of ten after each performance. When all the couples have danced, they are inserted onto the leaderboard, where the highest ranked couple will get the highest amount of points available, and the lowest ranked couple getting one point.

On the second show of the night, once the viewers' votes are in, the points from the leaderboard are added to those created by the viewer votes to find the two lowest ranked couples, and the lowest ranked couple go home.

The Couples

In the third series there were 12 celebrity dancers, 6 men and 6 women. In order of elimination they were:
Celebrity Occupation Professional partner Result
Siobhan Hayes
Siobhan Hayes
Siobhan Hayes is an actress best known for her role as Abi Harper in the British television series My Family.Hayes portrayed Abi Harper as a dimwitted and clumsy student in the British sitcom My Family, a role she has reprised since 2002 to 2008 when the character was written out of the programme...

My Family star Matthew Cutler
Matthew Cutler
Matthew David Cutler is an English dancer and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He was a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing.-Early life:...

Eliminated 1st
on 15 October 2005
Jaye Jacobs
Jaye Jacobs
Jaye Jacobs is a British actress.-Career:She is most famous for her role as fun loving nurse, turned Ward Sister, Donna Jackson in the BBC medical drama series Holby City from 2004 to 2011...

Actress Andrew Cuerden
Andrew Cuerden
Andrew Cuerden is a Latin dancer. Born in Zimbabwe, and growing up in South Africa, Cuerden moved to England to further his dance career in 1996. Dancing with partner Hanna Haarala they reached 4th place in the UK amateur Latin rankings, before turning pro on February 5...

Eliminated 2nd
on 22 October 2005
Gloria Hunniford
Gloria Hunniford
Gloria Hunniford is a Northern Irish TV and radio presenter, and formerly a singer.-Biography:...

TV and radio presenter Darren Bennett
Darren Bennett (dancer)
Darren Lee Bennett is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional Latin dancing, competing nationally and internationally. Darren's favourite dances are the Samba and the Foxtrot.They teach private lessons in their own studio...

Eliminated 3rd
on 29 October 2005
Fiona Phillips
Fiona Phillips
Fiona Phillips is an English journalist, broadcaster and television presenter.-Early life:Phillips was born in Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 1961. Her grandparents ran the Duke's Head pub in Church Street St. Paul's. Phillips attended Kingsmead Primary School...

GMTV
GMTV
GMTV was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc. in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end...

broadcaster
Brendan Cole
Brendan Cole
Brendan Cole is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin American dancing. He is most famous for appearing on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer...

Eliminated 4th
on 5 November 2005
Dennis Taylor
Dennis Taylor
Dennis Taylor is a retired snooker player, and current BBC snooker commentator. Winner of two ranking events, he is best known for winning the 1985 World Championship, beating World number one Steve Davis on the final black in one of the sport's most memorable finals...

Retired snooker player Izabela Hannah
Izabela Hannah
Izabela Hannah is a Polish-born British ballroom and Latin American dancer. Born in Szczecin, Poland, in 1976, Hannah began dancing jazz and ballet at the age of 9, and started ballroom and Latin American dancing as a teenager...

Eliminated 5th
on 12 November 2005
Will Thorp
Will Thorp
Will Thorp is an English actor.-Early life:Living in Frome as a youngster, Thorp attended a Catholic college in near-by Trowbridge, Wiltshire. He studied at Bath College and joined Musical Youth Theatre Company at an early age. Thorp was also a member of the National Youth Theatre...

Actor Hanna Haarala
Hanna Haarala
Hanna Haarala is a professional Latin American dancer. She has represented Finland with Mikko Kaasalainen at the European and World Games. Her current professional partner is Andrew Cuerden. She competed in series 3 of the BBC's successful dance show Strictly Come Dancing in 2005, reaching...

Eliminated 6th
on 19 November 2005
Bill Turnbull
Bill Turnbull
William Robert "Bill" Turnbull is an English journalist and presenter, currently employed by the BBC and best known for presenting BBC Breakfast...

TV presenter & journalist Karen Hardy
Karen Hardy
Karen Hardy is a professional ballroom dancer, coach, teacher and adjudicator. In 1998 she won the professional International Latin American Dance Championship with Bryan Watson. She also won the United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters championships...

Eliminated 7th
on 26 November 2005
Patsy Palmer
Patsy Palmer
Patsy Palmer is an English actress. Palmer made an early television appearance on the children's drama show Grange Hill, but is best known for playing Bianca Jackson in the popular British television soap opera EastEnders. Originally in the cast from 1993–1999, Palmer returned to EastEnders in...

EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

badmouth
Anton du Beke
Anton du Beke
Anton du Beke is a British ballroom dancer and television presenter. His professional dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003.-Family and early life:...

Eliminated 8th
on 3 December 2005
James Martin
James Martin (chef)
James Martin , is an English cook who first appeared on television in 1996.-Television career:...

Celebrity chef Camilla Dallerup
Camilla Dallerup
Camilla Dallerup is a British-based Danish ballroom dancer, dance teacher and model.-Dance career:Dallerup started dancing at the age of two and a half when her mother took her to her first class in Aalborg. She won the Danish Junior Championships at the age of 12...

Eliminated 9th
on 10 December 2005
Zoe Ball
Zoë Ball
Zoë Louise Ball is an English television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show and for her earlier work presenting the 1990s children's show, Live & Kicking.-TV career:The daughter of the children's TV presenter Johnny Ball and his...

TV and radio personality Ian Waite
Ian Waite
Ian Waite is a professional Latin-American dancer, teacher and choreographer.-Biography:Waite was born in Reading, UK. He started dancing at the age of 10. Mary Richardson, a former Latin American champion put him through a rigorous medallist regime...

Third Place
on 17 December 2005
Colin Jackson
Colin Jackson
Colin Ray Jackson CBE is a British former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. Over his career representing Great Britain and Wales he won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion three times, went undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and...

Former Olympic athlete Erin Boag
Erin Boag
Erin Boag is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, originally starting ballet and later moving into ballroom, Latin and jazz...

Second Place
on 17 December 2005
Darren Gough
Darren Gough
Darren Gough is a retired English cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him...

Cricketer Lilia Kopylova
Lilia Kopylova
Lilia Andreyevna Kopylova , born 18 June 1978 in Moscow, Soviet Union, is a professional dancer.With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003...

Series Winners
on 17 December 2005

Dances performed

Team Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10
Final
Darren & Lilia Cha Cha Cha Quickstep Tango Paso Doble Viennese Waltz Jive Foxtrot American Smooth & Rumba Waltz & Samba
&
Colin & Erin Cha Cha Cha Quickstep Tango Paso Doble Samba Foxtrot Viennese Waltz & & &
Zoe & Ian Rumba Jive American Smooth & & Paso Doble &
James & Camilla Cha Cha Cha Quickstep Tango Paso Doble Viennese Waltz Jive Waltz & Foxtrot & Rumba
Patsy & Anton Waltz Rumba Tango Foxtrot Samba Quickstep Cha Cha Cha American Smooth & Jive
Bill & Karen Cha Cha Cha Quickstep Paso Doble Viennese Waltz Rumba Waltz
Will & Hanna Quickstep Jive Foxtrot Tango
Dennis & Izabella Cha Cha Cha Jive Samba
Fiona & Brendan
Gloria & Darren Waltz Rumba Jive
Jaye & Andrew Waltz Rumba
Siobhan & Matthew Waltz


The dances performed during Series 3 were as follows:
  • Week 1 : Cha Cha Cha / Waltz
  • Week 2 : Quickstep / Rumba
  • Week 3 : Tango / Jive
  • Week 4 : Foxtrot / Paso Doble
  • Week 5 : Viennese Waltz / Samba
  • Week 6 : Jive, Foxtrot or Quickstep not tackled in the previous weeks
  • Week 7 : A dance not tackled in the previous weeks
  • Week 8 : American Smooth + a Latin not tackled in the previous weeks
  • Week 9 : A Latin and a Ballroom not tackled in the previous weeks
  • Week 10 : Favourite Ballroom & Favourite Latin

Judges' scoring summary

Team Place 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Darren & Lilia 1 19 30 33 34 28 30 34 32+30=62 35+29=64 +=
Colin & Erin 2 32 26 31 32 32 34 += +30=67 +=75
Zoe & Ian 3 32 29 36+32=68 36+= 38+=
James & Camilla 4 22 29 28 29 29 20 32 += +=
Patsy & Anton 5 19 26 31 26 31 31+27=58
Bill & Karen 6 29 23 20 25 27 25
Will & Hanna 7 18 29 25 34 28
Dennis & Izabela 8 20 18 22
Fiona & Brendan 9 20
Gloria & Darren 10 22 17 19
Jaye & Andrew 11 25 21
Siobhan & Matthew 12 15

Highest and lowest scoring performances

The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows:
Dance Best dancer(s) Best score Worst dancer(s) Worst score
Cha Cha Cha
Cha-cha-cha (dance)
The Cha-cha-cha is the name of a dance of Cuban origin.It is danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrín in 1953...

Zoe Ball/Colin Jackson 32 Will Thorp 18
Jive
Jive (dance)
In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1930s. It was originally presented to the public as 'Jive' in 1934 by Cab Calloway. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance...

Darren Gough/Colin Jackson 30 Fiona Phillips 16
Rumba
Rumba (dance)
Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.In some contexts, "rumba" is used as shorthand for Afro-Cuban rumba, a group of dances related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music. The most common Afro-Cuban rumba is the guaguancó...

Colin Jackson 36 Fiona Phillips 13
Paso doble Darren Gough 36 Dennis Taylor 15
Samba
Samba (ballroom)
Among ballroom dances, samba is a lively, rhythmical one. It is related to the traditional samba styles of Brazil, but differs from them considerably. Its music is in 2/4 or 4/4 time.-Origins:...

Zoe Ball 38 James Martin 20
Waltz
Waltz
The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in time, performed primarily in closed position.- History :There are several references to a sliding or gliding dance,- a waltz, from the 16th century including the representations of the printer H.S. Beheim...

Colin Jackson 37 Fiona Phillips 11
Quickstep
Quickstep
The quickstep is a light-hearted member of the standard ballroom dances. The movement of the dance is fast and powerfully flowing and sprinkled with syncopations. The upbeat melodies that quickstep is danced to make it suitable for both formal and informal events...

Colin Jackson 39 Dennis Taylor 18
Foxtrot Zoe Ball/Darren Gough 36 Fiona Phillips 20
Tango
Tango (dance)
Tango dance originated in the area of the Rio de la Plata , and spread to the rest of the world soon after....

Zoe Ball 38 Bill Turnbull 20
Viennese Waltz
Viennese Waltz
Viennese Waltz is the genre of a ballroom dance. At least three different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in ballroom dancing, danced to the music of Viennese Waltz.What is now called...

Zoe Ball 36 Will Thorp 23
American Smooth Colin Jackson 37 James Martin 28

Number of tens

Couple Total No. of Tens Week Judge(s) who gave a ten Dance Performed Score
Zoe/Ian 9
6 Bruno Tonioli Quickstep 36
7 Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli Tango 38
Final Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli Samba 38
Final Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli Tango 38
Christmas Special Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli Foxtrot 38
Colin/Erin 5
8 Arlene Phillips American Smooth 37
9 Len Goodman Waltz 37
Final Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli Quickstep 39
Darren/Lilia 2
Final Len Goodman Foxtrot 36


Notes
  • Darren & Lilia achieved 40/40 for their Quickstep in the 2005, Christmas Special, which they won.
  • Darren & Lilia achieved 40/40 for their American Smooth in the 2007 Christmas Special, which they won.
  • Colin & Erin scored 40/40 for their Quickstep in the 2006 Christmas special, which they went onto win.
  • Zoe & Ian scored 38/40 for their Rumba in the 2006 Christmas special, with their two 10s coming from Arlene and Bruno.

Additional information

  • Darren and Lilia's win made them the first male celebrity/female professional couple to win the competition.
  • They also became the first winners never to have had the week's highest score, or held the best score average.
  • The series saw the introduction of Matthew Cutler
    Matthew Cutler
    Matthew David Cutler is an English dancer and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He was a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing.-Early life:...

    , Karen Hardy
    Karen Hardy
    Karen Hardy is a professional ballroom dancer, coach, teacher and adjudicator. In 1998 she won the professional International Latin American Dance Championship with Bryan Watson. She also won the United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters championships...

    , Hanna Haarala
    Hanna Haarala
    Hanna Haarala is a professional Latin American dancer. She has represented Finland with Mikko Kaasalainen at the European and World Games. Her current professional partner is Andrew Cuerden. She competed in series 3 of the BBC's successful dance show Strictly Come Dancing in 2005, reaching...

    , Izabela Hannah
    Izabela Hannah
    Izabela Hannah is a Polish-born British ballroom and Latin American dancer. Born in Szczecin, Poland, in 1976, Hannah began dancing jazz and ballet at the age of 9, and started ballroom and Latin American dancing as a teenager...

     and Andrew Cuerden
    Andrew Cuerden
    Andrew Cuerden is a Latin dancer. Born in Zimbabwe, and growing up in South Africa, Cuerden moved to England to further his dance career in 1996. Dancing with partner Hanna Haarala they reached 4th place in the UK amateur Latin rankings, before turning pro on February 5...

     to the competition. Whilst the last three would compete for this series only, Cutler and Hardy would both go on to win the competition in subsequent series.
  • Three professional dancers did not return from Series 2, but Nicole Cutler
    Nicole Cutler
    Nicole Cutler is a professional ballroom dancer and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. She was born Nicole Westdyk in Durban, South Africa and after taking up ballet at the age of four, first tried out ballroom and Latin-American dancing at the age of twelve.In South Africa she danced...

    returned in the following series.
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