The remaining five couples will return to the Strictly dancefloor on Saturday for a musicals week quarter-final.

Actress Alex Kingston has become the eighth celebrity to be eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing.

The Doctor Who star and her professional dance partner Johannes Radebe have left the show after losing the dance battle to EastEnders actress Balvinder Sopal and Julian Caillon.

The couples performed their routines from Saturday night, with Kingston and Radebe dancing their cha cha cha to Anita Ward’s Ring My Bell.

They failed to make it through to the quarter-final after the majority of the judges chose to save Sopal and Caillon, who danced a jive to Right Back Where We Started From by Maxine Nightingale.

Sunday-night’s leaderboard was the first to have extra points from the

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