Strictly Come Dancing revealed its latest celebrity elimination as Week 5 of the 2026 series drew to a close.
Saturday night's (October 24) main show saw Tabby Stoecker and Mark Karmalita top the leaderboard with a score of 37.
Meanwhile, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Alexis Warr were left at the bottom on 17 points.
The leaderboard each week is decided by the judges' scores, which are weighted equally with votes from the public, meaning in theory anyone could end up in the dreaded dance-off.
Who left Strictly Come Dancing 2026 in Week 5 of the series?
Wright-Phillips and Warr were one of the pairs who ended up in the dance-off, along with Jaime Winstone and Carlos Gu, who came third from bottom on the night with a score of 24.
Winstone and Gu repeated their foxtrot to Man I Need by Olivia Dean, while Wright-Phillips and Warr reprised their jive to Faith by Stevie Wonder featuring Ariana Grande.
Judges Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse voted to save Winstone and Gu, but head judge Shirley Ballas voted for Wright-Phillips and Warr.
This left it up to Anton Du Beke, who had this week's casting vote.
In the end, he decided to save Winstone and Gu, meaning that Wright-Phillips and Warr went home.
Sunday night's results also came with the announcement that there would be a triple dance-off for next week's Halloween episode.
The three couples with the lowest combined judges’ scores and public votes will dance again next week, before the judges eliminate one pair.
Strictly will then return to a two-couple dance-off for the rest of the series.
Who is Shaun Wright-Phillips?
Shaun Wright-Phillips is a former footballer who played for the likes of Chelsea, Manchester City and Queens Park Rangers during his career.
He won 36 England caps, scoring six goals, and was included in the England squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Since retiring, he has worked as a football commentator for BBC Sport, ITV Sport, Talksport and Sky Sports.
His father is the former footballer and pundit Ian Wright, who adopted him when he was three, after beginning a relationship with his mother, Sharon Phillips.
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All the celebrities eliminated from Strictly 2026 so far
Celebrity hair stylist Chris Appleton and his partner Amy Dowden were the first pair to be eliminated from Strictly's 2026 series, after losing out in the dance-off to Winstone and Gu.
In Week 3, actress Melanie Walters, who is known for her role as Gwen in Gavin and Stacey, was knocked out along with her partner Aljaz Skorjanec.
The judges decided to save Wright-Phillips and Warr after the dance-off in that week.
In Icons Week, Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey and her partner Julian Caillon were eliminated after losing the dance-off to Bethany Antonia and Nancy Xu.
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