{"id":2102528,"date":"2025-10-19T21:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2102528"},"modified":"2025-10-19T21:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:39:06","slug":"chris-robshaw-is-eliminated-while-drag-queen-la-voix-escapes-dance-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chris-robshaw-is-eliminated-while-drag-queen-la-voix-escapes-dance-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former England <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/rugby-union\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rugby Union;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Rugby Union<\/a> captain Chris Robshaw has become the first person to fall foul of a new rule on <em>Strictly Come Dancing<\/em>. He and his partner, Nadiya Bychkova, were eliminated in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/2025\/10\/18\/strictly-come-dancing-live-week-4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Week Four dance-off;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">the Week Four dance-off<\/a> when, with the judges tied on two votes each, Craig Revel Horwood opted to save <em>EastEnders<\/em> actress Balvinder Sopal and her partner Julian Caillon. Previously, the honour of having the final decision would have fallen to head judge Shirley Ballas, who had chosen to save Robshaw and Bychkova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This year, for the first time, the judges will be sharing the responsibility of having the final decision, instead of it always falling to Ballas. In the previous 22 series, Robshaw would have survived this dance-off. Instead, he becomes the third celebrity to leave this year\u2019s series, following <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/2025\/10\/05\/strictly-come-dancing-week-2-results-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apprentice contestant Thomas Skinner;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"><em>Apprentice <\/em>contestant Thomas Skinner<\/a> and <em>Good Morning Britain<\/em>\u2019s LA correspondent Ross King. On paper, the worst three dancers have left, in the correct order.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>The judges were tied on whether to eliminate Balvinder Sopal and Julian Caillion or Chris Robshaw and Nadiya Bychkova &#8211; Guy Levy\/BBC<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, both Robshaw and Sopal could consider themselves unfortunate to be in the dance-off this weekend. Drag queen La Voix has had a strong enough series, but <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/2025\/10\/18\/strictly-come-dancing-live-week-4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:her dreadful cha-cha-cha;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">her dreadful cha-cha-cha<\/a> scored 14, the lowest ever score at this stage of the competition in 23 series. She seemed stunned when Tess Daly announced she was going through to next week. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have voted for that!\u201d she said. Stefan Dennis, returning after missing last week through illness, brought a lot of fun to his Charleston, but little technical polish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There will be continued conversations as to why Albert Square matriarch Sopal has been in the dance-off in the past two weeks \u2013 and why Ballas and fellow judge Anton du Beke chose to eliminate her. Her scores outstrip six of her 14 competitors and her technical potential is miles ahead of Robshaw\u2019s, no matter how gamely the England man has improved over these four weeks. Robshaw, to his credit, executed superb lifts this weekend. But many will sympathise with Revel Horwood, who bemoaned the standard of Robshaw\u2019s extremely limited samba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The question remains what Sopal can do \u2013 if anything \u2013 to win over the voters at home. It seems inconceivable that she won\u2019t be in a third dance-off next week, most likely against Dennis, and the judges cannot save her if they are not seeing tangible improvements. Next week is Icons Weeks and Dennis will be dancing as Jon Bon Jovi to the cheesy classic <em>Livin\u2019 on a Prayer<\/em>. It will go down a storm. Sopal, then, will be saying her prayers all this week, while it is Robshaw who has been left cursing his luck \u2013 and that rule change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/subscribe\/01doysa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former England Rugby Union captain Chris Robshaw has become the first person to fall foul of a new rule on Strictly Come Dancing. He and his partner, Nadiya Bychkova, were eliminated in the Week Four dance-off when, with the judges tied on two votes each, Craig Revel Horwood opted to save EastEnders actress Balvinder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2102529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[377183,345930,345929,392954,376542,358278,376568,342428,30156],"class_list":["post-2102528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-balvinder-sopal","tag-chris-robshaw","tag-craig-revel-horwood","tag-julian-caillon","tag-nadiya-bychkova","tag-ross-king","tag-shirley-ballas","tag-stefan-dennis","tag-strictly-come-dancing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Chris-Robshaw-is-eliminated-while-drag-queen-La-Voix-escapes.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102530,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102528\/revisions\/2102530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}