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Strictly Come Dancing 2017 week 8 in pictures

The 9 remaining couples danced their socks off on Saturday night’s Strictly Come Dancing live show in a bid to secure their place on the bus to Blackpool.

Davood Ghadami and his partner Nadiya Bychkova topped the leaderboard for the first time this series and tied with Alexandra Burke and her partner Gorka Marquez. At the bottom of the leaderboard was Ruth Langsford, who was eliminated during Sunday night’s results show.

The competition is getting tougher and tougher every week and if Davood keeps performing strongly, he may just go on to win the whole series.

The leaderboard for the evening was:

Davood Ghadami & Nadiya Bychkova – 38
Alexandra Burke & Gorka Marquez – 38
Debbie McGee & Giovanni Pernice – 35
Joe McFadden & Katya Jones – 33
Gemma Atkinson & Aljaž Å korjanec – 28
Susan Calman & Kevin Clifton – 27
Mollie King & AJ Pritchard – 22
Jonnie Peacock & Oti Mabuse – 21
Ruth Langsford & Anton Du Beke – 18

Strictly Come Dancing 2017 continues at 6.45pm Saturday on BBC One. Take a look at all the action from Saturday night’s live show in our gallery below:

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