Strictly 2026: Who topped the leaderboard in the latest live show?

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Place, T., & Cooper-Fiske, C. (2026, October 24). Strictly 2026: Who topped the leaderboard in the latest live show? Evening Standard. https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/strictly-come-dancing-delta-goodrem-bbc-craig-revel-horwood-shirley-ballas-b1302234.html

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Evening Standard · collected 2026-10-24 · by Tom Place, Casey Cooper-Fiske

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Winter Olympic champion Tabby Stoecker topped the leaderboard on Saturday’s episode of Strictly 2026 with a score of 37 for her couple’s choice dance to Olivia Rodrigo's "Stupid Song." Singer Natalie Goodrem placed second with a score of 34 for her rumba to Celine Dion's "It’s All Coming Back To Me Now," despite missing last week's show due to a fractured rib. The article highlights Stoecker's emotional performance dedicated to her late father, praised by judge Shirley Ballas as "absolutely exquisite."
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Story summary

Delta Goodrem, 41, returned to Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday after missing week four due to a fractured rib. She performed a rumba with her professional partner Kai Widdrington to Celine Dion's "It’s All Coming Back To Me Now," scoring 34 points, the highest score of the night until Winter Olympic champion Tabby Stoecker, dancing to Olivia Rodrigo's "Stupid Song," surpassed it with a perfect score of 37. This placed Goodrem second overall after her return. Judges praised both performances, with Anton Du Beke giving Goodrem the series' first 10 and calling it his favorite dance so far. Stoecker’s emotional performance was dedicated to her late father and received two 10s from judges as well.

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📰 Delta Goodrem's Strictly Return
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“Both articles describe the same Strictly dance show episode where Delta Goodrem and Tabby Stoecker scored high marks, specifically mentioning the same scores and dances.”
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Tom Place
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Topics

Arsenal BBC England Winter Olympic

Subjects

Revel Horwood PERSON · 3× BBC ORG · 2× Goodrem PERSON · 2× Celine Dion’s PERSON · 1× Kai Widdrington PERSON · 1× Mark Karmalita PERSON · 1× Olivia Rodrigo PERSON · 1× Shirley Ballas PERSON · 1× Stoecker PERSON · 1× Tabby Stoecker PERSON · 1×

Narrative

Stoecker’s leaderboard-topping performance with professional partner Mark Karmalita was dedicated to her late father, and she appeared emotional after the dance, with judge Shirley Ballas praising her as a “beautiful dancer” and calling the performance “absolutely exquisite”.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-24
🔮 “And I’ve got some advice for you, going forward I would continue to have a rib injury.
2026-10-24 · Evening Standard
Strictly 2026: Who topped the leaderboard in the latest live show? · assertive framing

Claims (15 extracted, 2 hedged)

Strictly 2026: Who topped the leaderboard in the latest live show? asserted
Who → top → show
But Winter Olympic champion Tabby Stoecker followed her on Saturday’s episode of the BBC dancing show by scoring two 10s for her couple’s choice dance to Stupid Song by Olivia Rodrigo, finishing with a total score of 37, the highest of the series so far. asserted
Stoecker → follow → series
Goodrem, 41, scored 34 for her rumba to Celine Dion’s It’s All Coming Back To Me Now with professional partner Kai Widdrington, placing her second after she missed last week’s icons special after suffering a fractured rib. asserted
she → score → rib
Stoecker’s leaderboard-topping performance with professional partner Mark Karmalita was dedicated to her late father, and she appeared emotional after the dance, with judge Shirley Ballas praising her as a “beautiful dancer” and calling the performance “absolutely exquisite”. asserted
Ballas → top → performance
“And I’ve got some advice for you, going forward I would continue to have a rib injury. asserted
I → get → injury
After the dance, Goodrem said: “It was a tough week this week, and it’s been sort of waves and sort of working through the process, but when you know you have a time frame, where you just have to keep getting up step by step, I think that was a positive mindset… “I’m thrilled we could get through it today and onwards and upwards.” Social media star John Nellis and his professional partner Katya Jones placed third at the end of the show, scoring 32 for their quickstep to McFly’s Five Colours In Her Hair, which Ballas said she was “very pleased” with, and judge Craig Revel Horwood said was “clean”. uncertain
Horwood → say → which
In the bottom two were Emmerdale star Lawrence Robb and Jowita Przystal, who scored 19 for their jive to a mash-up of Fatboy Slim’s The Rockafeller Skank and The Knack’s My Sharona, and former England winger Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis Warr, who scored 17. asserted
who → score → 17
Wright-Phillips was watched by his father, former Arsenal star and football pundit Ian Wright, as he performed the jive to Faith by Stevie Wonder featuring Ariana Grande, which Revel Horwood branded “a disaster”. asserted
Horwood → watch → which
After Robb and Przystal’s dance, Revel Horwood said: “It wasn’t for me, flat-footed and out of time, feet turned in, no retraction or slip, not your best.” asserted
feet → say → retraction
Read More Three couples scored 31: TV dog trainer Graeme Hall and Lauren Oakley, Big Brother presenter Will Best and his partner Dianne Buswell, and former Love Island winner Dani Dyer and Nikita Kuzmin. asserted
couples → read → Hall
Dyer and Kuzmin’s high score for their performance to Despecha by Rosalia came after the couple placed in the bottom two last week, with Du Beke praising their dance as “magnificent” and “brilliantly done”, although Revel Horwood said they “could’ve sold it more”. uncertain
they → come → it
EastEnders actress Lacey Turner and her professional partner Vito Coppola performed the tango to Blondie’s Atomic, initially appearing to have scored 29 due to an issue with the BBC’s graphic, but were eventually revealed to have scored 28. asserted
Turner → perform → 28
Elsewhere, actress Jaime Winstone and Carlos Gu scored 25 for their foxtrot to Olivia Dean’s Man I Need, and fellow actress Bethany Antonia and her partner Nancy Xu scored 25 for their Argentine tango to a cover of All The Things She Said by Harrison. asserted
She → score → Harrison
Former Love Island star Cach Mercer and his professional partner Maddie Ingoldsby scored 24 for their cha cha to Maneskin’s cover of Beggin’ by The Four Seasons. asserted
Mercer → score → Seasons
Radebe said: “I have to say a very warm welcome back to Delta and Kai, we’re so happy to have you back in the ballroom my darling.” asserted
we → say → ballroom
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