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Strictly Come Dancing has eliminated the second celebrity contestant of this series – with fans applauding the judges for making “the right choice”.

For the second time this season, the public were able to cast their votes for their favourite couples on Saturday night (5 October) after Movie Week. You can catch up on everything that happened here, as well as take a look at the leaderboard here.

Following a tense dance-off during Sunday night’s (6 October) results show, it is singer Toyah Willcox and professional partner Neil Jones who will be saying farewell to the dancefloor.

The pair’s elimination follows after Olympic swimmer Tom Dean became the first to go last week, alongside Strictly pro Nadiya Bychkova.

This week, Willcox, 66, and Jones, 41, found themselves up against football star Paul Merson and Karen Hauer in the second dance-off of the series.

Both couples performed their Movie Week routines again, with Willcox and Jones dancing the Samba to “Poor Unfortunate Souls” from Little Mermaid.

Meanwhile, Merson and Hauer took on the Cha Cha once again to the theme song of the 1960 western flick The Magnificent Seven.

Unfortunately for Willcox, known for hits including “It’s a Mystery” and “Thunder in the Mountains”, the judges made a unanimous decision to save Merson and Hauer.

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Since the judges – Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, and Aonton Du Beke – all agreed, head judge Shirley Ballas did not have to vote. She did, however, reveal that she would have voted in line with her fellow judges.

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It is clear from the reaction of Strictly fans that the majority of viewers feel the same way, with several posting to Twitter/X to praise the elimination decision.

“Right result,” wrote one person simply as others praised viewers for voting for the “right bottom two”.

Viewers were left satisfied as one fan posted, “That Strictly result is what you call the correct result and the public voting for the right people”.

However, others were less forgiving as they recalled the controversial decision to send Olympian Tom Dean home last week.

“The shock this week is that she didn’t go last week!” wrote another on X/Twitter.

Neither the decision to eliminate Willcox and Jones, nor the audience reaction to the elimination, comes as a surprise given that many viewers found both of the musician’s dances so far to be lacking.

“I bloody love Toyah and have done for 40-odd years, but she cannot dance, bless her. Still, what a total sport she is,” said one person.

Not everyone agreed as one person hit out at Merson being saved, “Poor judge’s decision. Populism honestly think not only was Toyah better but she’d have loved to continue whereas they’ll make Paul do the conga next week or something “.

Willcox, however, is sure to be disappointed with the results after vowing to “prove the doubters wrong” last week when she landed in the bottom two in a dance-off against Dean.

Following her elimination, when asked by host Tess Daly about her time on the show, Willcox called her time on the show “the best two months of my life”.

“It has been fantastic,” said the singer. “I have enjoyed every second. And you [Jones] have been phenomenal, thank you so much.”

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Jones was full of similar praise for his celebrity partner, stating: She has made me laugh so much, I have never seen someone work so hard – I’m the one asking for breaks every now and then! She just kept going, she wanted to learn so much.

“If you saw her in the hallway she’s been practising. Everyone’s been telling me have you seen Toyah practising, she’s brilliant and she’s what Strictly is all about, and I’ve loved every moment.”

The remaining 13 couples will take to the dancefloor next week, as Strictly return on Saturday (12 October) with the results show following the night after (13 October).

BRIDGERTON newcomer Yerin Ha maintains an air of mystery as she hides behind a bejewelled mask in scenes that won’t air until 2026.

The actress — who joins the Netflix Regency romp as Benedict Bridgerton’s love interest, Sophie Baek — is filming for the hotly anticipated masquerade ball in this first look at her on set.

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At one point, Yerin covered her embellished gown under a blanket to keep warm, between takes outside Ranger’s House in Blackheath, South East London.

Fans of the books on which the TV drama is based will know the ball is pivotal in the plot, as it’s where Sophie and Benedict meet for the first time.

Luke Thompson, who plays the hunk, smouldered in black as he lingered outside the mansion waiting for his scenes.

Our images reveal that, despite being banished to the countryside at the end of series three for her part in Lady Whistledown’s deception, scheming Cressida Cowper, inset right, is also back.

‘Feels like a dream’

Jessica Madsen, who plays the socialite, was spotted on set in an off-the-shoulder pink gown with matching mask, filming series four.

It comes after Yerin, who is best known for Paramount+ series Halo, shared how even wearing the costumes feels like a dream. The Korean-Australian actress said: “I never saw myself wearing clothes from the Regency period. I never saw myself in that kind of role.

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“Even trying them on has been so new and fresh. It’s really refreshing and I feel really honoured.”

Since launching, Bridgerton has been lauded for its so-called “colour-blind” casting.

In her first interview since landing the part, Yerin said: “When I got the role I was having breakfast with my mum in Korea, so I stepped outside and then I was jumping around the streets.

“Mum came out crying and then she was like, ‘I think I’ve got to go home, I’ve got indigestion!’. I don’t think there are enough words in the dictionary to describe how it feels.”

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PETER Capaldi is back as disturbing villain Gideon Shepherd in Prime Video’s supernatural crime drama, The Devil’s Hour.

Series two follows Gideon as he helps his ex-nemesis, detective Lucy Chambers (Jessica Raine), by using his ability to know the future.

And surprisingly, despite its spooky undertones, he reckons the psychological thriller is perfect viewing to give you a good night’s kip.

He said: “It can be quite satisfying to watch before you pop off to sleep.

“There are volumes to be written about how people felt when lockdown started, but when that ended, there was appetite for something a little darker that, at the same time, could be a balm.

“Shows like this, which are scary and cosmic, but removed from reality…”

He added: “I don’t like things about real serial killers. I don’t want to be reminded of the real horrors of the world.

“But all the horrors Gideon discusses are fictional, which gives people a chance to enjoy being scared and made to feel at ease.

“That’s always popular.”

The new series begins on October 18. A third season has already been commissioned.

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RENEE Zellweger is back as film favourite Bridget Jones – but the American’s Brit boyfriend admits he hasn’t the foggiest about what she is up to on set.

TV presenter Ant Anstead said of Renee’s latest flick Mad About The Boy: “I’ve been so busy that I haven’t been able to get across the plot, but I believe it’s closely related to the book – which I’ve not read.”

For The Love Of Cars host Ant is instead busy preparing for his new TV series The Naked Mechanic, which will broadcast on Quest and Discovery+ from October 24.

Meanwhile, Renee’s latest movie outing sees unlucky-in-love Bridget dealing with the death of her beloved Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth.

Raising two children without him, she becomes linked with new bloke Roxter, played by One Day star Leo Woodall.

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For years, The Simpsons has bizarrely predicted future events well before they happen.

From Donald Trump’s presidency down to the 2020 murder hornet invasion, the popular long-running cartoon’s ability to eerily foreshadow seemingly unforeseeable occurrences has often left viewers astounded.

But executive producer and showrunner Matt Selman insists the key to coming up with storylines that will likely come to fruition isn’t as magical as some might think.

“Well, the sourpuss answer I always give that no one likes is that if you study history and math, it would be literally impossible for us not to predict things,” he told People in a new interview.

“If you say enough things, some of them are going to overlap with reality, and then that’s the math element,” Selman explained.

“If you make a show that is based on studying the past foolishness of humanity, you are surely going to anticipate the future foolishness of humanity as it sinks further into foolishness fair,” he added. “So we don’t really think about it.”

He noted that writers “hate” when fans “put obviously fake images online and say we predicted things that we didn’t.”

“It was nicer when the predictions were just predicting real horrible events, not people pretending we predicted horrible events,” said Selman, adding that it’s “very depressing and dispiriting that people want the magic to be true so bad that they just start” putting out images of fake scenarios the show has never featured.

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Currently in its 36th season, The Simpsons first debuted in 1989. Created by Matt Groening, the animated Fox sitcom follows the eponymous family and their everyday life in a typical American town.

Earlier this year, Channel 4 pulled a 1996 rerun of the show that featured a scene reminiscent of the recent assassination attempt of Trump.

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That episode, titled “Lisa the Iconoclast,” which was scheduled to air on July 14, featured a law enforcement officer on a nearby rooftop taking aim at Lisa Simpson as she stands at a podium at a rally — eerily similar in appearance to the Trump’s campaign rally one day earlier.

According to an episode summary, “Lisa finds out that Springfield’s founder was a murderous pirate who tried to assassinate George Washington, and decides her fellow citizens should know the truth.”

Instead, the episode was replaced with one from season 30, titled “Baby You Can’t Drive My Car,” which follows Marge and Homer Simpson as they work together at a tech company that produces self-driving cars.