Strictly Come Dancing returns to BBC One on Saturday 7 November with nine couples performing in Week 7, and viewers now have a confirmed guide to the dances and music. The live programme is scheduled for 6.30pm, with the competition moving towards Blackpool Week. For anyone planning their Saturday evening, the most useful distinction is between what the couples have been assigned and what has not yet happened: these are confirmed performances, not scores or predictions of the result.
Every Week 7 couple, dance and song
The published Week 7 line-up pairs Bethany Antonia and Nancy Xu for a Foxtrot to Leona Lewis’s Bleeding Love. Dani Dyer and Nikita Kuzmin have an American Smooth to Harry Connick Jr’s It Had to Be You, while Delta Goodrem and Kai Widdrington will perform a Cha Cha to Jennifer Lopez’s Let’s Get Loud.
Lacey Turner and Vito Coppola have been assigned a Rumba to Coldplay’s Yellow. Tabby Stoecker and Mark Karmalita will dance a Paso Doble to Muse’s Supermassive Black Hole. Cach Mercer and Maddie Kame will take on a Waltz to Mulaa Joans’s That Ain’t You.
The remaining three routines offer another mixture of styles. Graeme Hall and Lauren Oakley have a Couple’s Choice to Peter Gabriel’s The Book of Love; John Nellis and Katya Jones will perform a Salsa to Daft Punk’s Get Lucky; and Will Best and Dianne Buswell have a Quickstep to Maroon 5’s This Love.
Those nine combinations are the announced programme rather than a running order. The sequence in which they appear on television, and their judges’ marks, should not be assumed from a preview list. The songs also describe the tracks chosen for the routines, not the celebrities’ own recordings.
Why there are nine couples rather than ten
Jaime Winstone and Carlos Gu will not dance in Saturday’s show. Winstone has suffered an abdominal muscle injury and has been given time to recover, with the pair receiving a one-week bye. Their absence is not an elimination or a result of a public vote. It changes the number of performances viewers will see this weekend, but does not mean that the partnership has left the competition.
The distinction matters when following the show across Saturday and Sunday’s broadcasts. A couple missing a week for an announced injury is in a different position from one that has competed and then lost a dance-off. Viewers should wait for the BBC’s subsequent updates rather than assume when Winstone can resume dancing.
Which routines offer the biggest contrasts?
The song-and-dance choices promise a broad range of moods. Delta and Kai’s Cha Cha and John and Katya’s Salsa bring Latin styles to familiar upbeat tracks, while Will and Dianne’s Quickstep offers a ballroom routine with a brisk pace. Tabby and Mark’s Paso Doble has a markedly different character from the Waltz assigned to Cach and Maddie.
At the quieter end of the list, Lacey and Vito’s Rumba, Bethany and Nancy’s Foxtrot and Dani and Nikita’s American Smooth will ask different things of their respective partnerships. Graeme and Lauren’s Couple’s Choice adds a further contrast. None of these assignments guarantees a particular mark: execution, musical interpretation and the judges’ responses will only become clear on the night.
When to watch and what comes next
The Week 7 live show is scheduled for Saturday 7 November at 6.30pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The results programme follows on Sunday 8 November. Sunday’s show will also include a Remembrance tribute from the professional dancers, a separate feature from the Saturday competitive routines.
Blackpool Week is the next major milestone on the programme’s calendar. The couples competing on Saturday are seeking to remain in the contest long enough to reach it, but this preview does not identify an eventual bottom two, dance-off or elimination. Those outcomes depend on the actual performances and voting.
For viewers who have seen older song lists circulating online, the date is important: this is the 2026 Week 7 selection for 7 November, not the 2025 series. The confirmed dance list is reported by Entertainment Focus and Energy Radio, with the latter also detailing the injury-related change to the line-up. Check the BBC’s live listings before viewing in case transmission times change.
Sources
Entertainment Focus, 4 November 2026; Energy Radio, 6 November 2026.