No. of episodes 27 Celebrity winner Alesha Dixon Professional winner Matthew Cutler Country of origin United Kingdom | Original network BBC One Air date September 29, 2007 Number of episodes 27 | |
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Original release 29 September – 22 December 2007 Winners Alesha Dixon, Matthew Cutler | ||
Strictly Come Dancing returned for its fifth series on 29 September 2007 on BBC One. Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly returned as co-presenters of the main show on BBC One, while Claudia Winkleman returned to present spin-off show Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two on BBC Two. Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Craig Revel Horwood and Arlene Phillips returned to the judging panel for their fifth series.
Contents
- Couples
- Scoring chart
- Highest and lowest scoring performances
- Weekly scores and songs
- Week 1
- Week 2
- Week 3
- Week 4
- Week 5
- Week 6
- Week 7
- Week 8
- Week 9
- Week 10
- Week 11
- Week 12 Final
- Dance chart
- References
The first programme was a catch-up show and preview to the new series, before the start of the competition on 6 October. The show ran for 12 weeks, up to 22 December. The show featured 14 new celebrities, who had been paired with 14 professional dancers. In a change to the previous format, the results show was on Sunday, rather than later on Saturday. The fifth series was also the first in which all the professional dancers from the previous year have returned.
The winners of this series were Alesha Dixon and Matthew Cutler.
Couples
This year there were 14 couples: 7 male celebrities and 7 female celebrities. 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 weekHighest and lowest scoring performances
The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' scores are as follows:
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.