It’s hard to believe that Strictly Come Dancing has whipped the a** of X Factor in the ratings battle yet again! To read the newspaper coverage it would be easy to believe that the ITV show was by far more popular, but I suppose all it really means is that it has more hard working publicists.

Strictly Come Dancing was watched on Saturday night by an average 9.3million viewers.

But its ITV rival trailed behind – managing about 8.8million.

And when the pair went head to head, Strictly was up by as much as 3.3MILLION.

And all that without sob stories, dead parents and death defying illnesses…….that really is one great group of dancers!