Layton Williams tops Strictly leaderboard with Amanda Abbington close behind
After another exciting round of dancing from all 15 of this year's contestants, Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin topped the Strictly Come Dancing leaderboard with a score of 65 points!
The exciting development came after the duo performed a Quickstep to Puttin’ on the Ritz by Gregory Porter, something which saw them receive high praise from the judges, with Motsi Mabuse even branding the performance the "dance of the night."
However, despite their success, another star was hot on Layton’s heels, as Amanda Abbington and Giovanni Pernice only narrowly missed out on the top spot with a score of 61.
The latest leaderboard shake up comes just one week on since the debut live show of the season, which saw Nigel Harman beat some stiff competition to score 32 points with his first dance.
Nigel was then closely followed by Amanda Abbington, Ellie Leach, Bobby Brazier and Layton Williams who all scored 29 points after their first dance.
With such high achieving performers among the line-up, the bar was set impossibly high for all of this year’s contestants, yet in a surprising move they continued to replicate the calibre of skill and push the bar ever higher in week two with a combination of performance skill and technical aptitude.
As nobody was eliminated last week to allow all of the contestants another chance to shine, the scores from last week were carried over to week two where they were combined to give a joint score altogether, which would later be used to decide which dancers would be facing the dreaded dance off.
After the combined scores were revealed, sadly not everyone could appear at the top of the leaderboard, with the lowest score of the night falling to Les Dennis and Nancy Xu for their performance of a Samba to Rock the Boat by Hues Corporation which sadly failed to resonate with the judging panel and scored them just 31 points at the end of the show.
Despite being at the bottom of the leaderboard however, there is still hope for Les and Nancy, as the public vote also plays a crucial part in deciding which of our favourite stars will progress to next week, and who will be forced to take on the dance off to dance for their right to progress to Week Three.
The full Week Two standings are as follows
- Layton & Nikita – 65
- Amanda & Giovanni – 61
- Ellie And Vito – 60
- Nigel & Katya – 59
- Angela & Kai – 59
- Bobby & Diane – 58
- Angela & Carlos – 52
- Annabel & Johannes – 50
- Eddie & Karen – 43
- Adam & Luba – 42
- Krishnan & Lauren – 42
- Zara & Graziano – 42
- Jody & Jowita – 37
- Nikita & Gorka – 36
- Les & Nancy – 31
Strictly Come Dancing: The Results returns Sunday 1 October at 7:15pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer
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