No. of episodes 22 Celebrity winner Darren Gough Professional winner Lilia Kopylova Country of origin United Kingdom | Original network BBC One Air date October 15, 2005 Number of episodes 22 | |
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Original release 15 October – 17 December 2005 Winners Lilia Kopylova, Darren Gough | ||
Strictly Come Dancing returned for its third series on 15 October 2005 and ended on 17 December 2005. Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly returned to co-present the main show on BBC One, while Claudia Winkleman returned to present spin-off show Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two. Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Craig Revel Horwood and Arlene Phillips returned as judges. The Winners were Darren Gough along with his dancing partner Lilia Kopylova.
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Couples
In the third series there were 12 celebrity dancers, 6 men and 6 women. In order of elimination they were:
Scoring chart
indicates the couple eliminated that week indicates the couple that was in the bottom two that week but not eliminated indicates the couple withdrew from the competition that week indicates the winning couple indicates the runner-up couple indicates the third-place couple Red text the couple(s) with the lowest score for that week Green text the couple(s) with the highest score for that week "—" indicates the couple(s) did not dance that weekAverage chart
This table only counts for dances scored on a traditional 40-point scale.
Highest and lowest scoring performances of the series
The highest and lowest performances in each dance according to the judges' scale are as follows (scores given by guest judges are deducted from the total).
Patsy Palmer, Gloria Hunniford, Jaye Jacobs and Siobhan Hayes are the only celebrities not to land on this list.
Weekly scores and songs
Unless indicated otherwise, individual judges scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.