It gives me no pleasure to report that Strictly’s annual Fright Night was even more frightful than usual. Well, some pleasure. An Ed Balls cha cha amount of pleasure. Yes, against all odds, 2016’s fifth-strangest political happening lives on. Meanwhile, the two newly hyped duelling studs both crumbled during this dressing-up box explosion horror show: Danny felled by foxtrot, Ore by an unnecessary giant lollipop. Err, a really macho giant lollipop.

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