Strictly Come Dancing couples to face TWO routines each as the show reaches semi-finals
STRICTLY Come Dancing contestants will have twice the work to do in order to progress to the semi-finals - with all participants dancing to TWO routines as the battle heats up.
On spin-off show It Takes Two, Zoe Ball announced the first round of songs as part of weekly segment, Tunes on Tuesday.
However, the full line-up reveals that the remaining four celebrities will be tackling a second routine as well.
Ore Oduba and Joanne Clifton, who were in the dance-off last weekend but were saved by the judges, will be performing a quickstep to Are You Gonna Be My Girl? by rock group Jet.
They will follow up with a second routine, performing an Argentine Tango to Kylie Minogue's classic dance number Can't Get You Out of My Head.
Claudia Fragapagne and AJ Pritchard, who bagged their first ten last week for their samba to The Lion King's I Just Can't Wait to be King, will be changing the pace and doing a Rumba to Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis.
They will follow up with a Quickstep to retro-hit When You’re Smiling by Andy Williams.
Danny Mac and Oti Mabuse will be hoping to maintain their spot on the top of the leaderboard for another week in a row by dancing the Salsa to Vivir Mi’ Vida by Marc Anthony.
They will then wind down with an American Smooth to Misty Blue by Dorothy Moore to complete their two dances.
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and Kevin Clifton will be dancing the Samba to Brazil by Thiago Thomé.
They will then turn up the heat with a Tango to Glad All Over by the Dave Clark Five.
As always, the two celebrities that receive the lowest combined score from the scoreboard and the public vote will face off in the dance-off, with one couple falling at the final hurdle ahead of the final on December 17.
Meanwhile, the show is beating it's own competitors in the ratings race after trouncing ITV's The X Factor last week with nearly DOUBLE the amount of viewers.
Last week, which saw leave , the show pulled in 11.2million viewers at its peak,while The X Factor only reached 6.4million.
The finals will air this week, with remaining acts 5 After Midnight, and competing for the sought-after record contract with SyCo records.
Catch Strictly Come Dancing, Saturday and Sunday on BBC1, and spin-off show It Takes Two weekdays at 6.30pm on BBC2.
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