It might have looked like order was restored in the Strictly ballroom on Sunday night, with the celebrity at the bottom of the judges’ leaderboard – Matt Goss – becoming the latest to exit the show. But voters also delivered another shock, dropping Kym Marsh, who was fifth on the leaderboard after her highly praised samba, into the dance-off with Goss.
“It’s never too early for a 10 from Shirley.” Well, except when it is. Two maximum 10s and seven near-perfect nines in only the third week of Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) was too much, too soon. As head judge Ms Ballas and her fellow panellists whipped out their highest scoring paddles, it was the hoofing equivalent of hyper-inflation.