54m rhinestones, 13m viewers… the show in numbers

Meanest – and softest Judges

Average score given out of ten Craig Revel Horwood 6.6 Arlene Phillips 6.9 Bruno Tonioli 7.5 Len Goodman, Alesha Dixon and Shirley Ballas 7.6 Motsi Mabuse 7.7 Darcey Bussell 7.8

Len’s Magic Seven!

346 times that former head judge Len Goodman famously yelled ‘SeVEN’ when awarding points to even the most hopeless contestant.

Curmudgeonly Craig

Number of times judges have awarded a ‘1’ out of ten Craig Revel Horwood 10 Arlene Phillips 1

Times they awarded ‘2’: Craig Revel Horwood 61 Arlene Phillips 5 Shirley Ballas 1

Perfect Tens

893 marks of ten have been awarded. The first was by Arlene in Series 1, to TV newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky, who became the first winner.

Nifty Natalie

Highest average scores over a series: 36 points by Natalie Gumede (actress), singers Alexandra Burke, Faye Tozer, Ashley Roberts and actors Danny Mac and Kelvin Fletcher.

Stepping up

Viewing figures for the final have grown from 9.7 million for Series 1 (2004) to 13.2 million for Series 18 (2020)

Two Left Feet

Lowest average scores

8 points – Quentin Willson (TV presenter)

12 points

– Susannah Constantine (fashion guru), rower James Cracknell and Jacqui Smith (exHome Secretary)

Chorus line

Total number of contestants: 249 And pro dancers: 58

Glitz Galore

54 million rhinestones, 9,000 cans of hairspray and 900 litres of spray tan

have been used.