Strictly Come Dancing: the semi-final – as it happened

Thank you and a glittery goodnight

That concludes Saturday’s semi-final liveblog but please feel free to continue the ballroom badinage in the comments below. Meet you back here tomorrow for this year’s last results show. It airs at 7.45pm Sunday on BBC1, featuring music from 5ive and Kylie. Not together. That would be weird.

I’ll spark up the blog at 7.15pm for build-up, so please rejoin me then. In the meantime, I’m @michaelhogan on Twitter/X and @michaelhogan100 pretty much everywhere else, so please feel free to say hi or something less savoury.

As always, thanks for watching along with me. See you tomorrow but in the meantime, you know the deal by now: keeeeeep dancing! Goodnight and take care.

A tear-sodden semi-final with too much padding but some great dancing.

And left intriguingly poised. Thoughts? Predictions? I predict a Balvinder vs Amber dance-off with only one result….