Sarah Storey and Julian Caillon Leave Strictly

Dame Sarah Storey and professional partner Julian Caillon have been eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing after losing the Icons Week dance-off to Bethany Antonia and Nancy Xu. All four judges chose to save Antonia and Xu, according to reports of the results show. Storey and Caillon are the third couple to leave this series. The pair faced the dance-off after finishing at the bottom of Saturday’s leaderboard with 21 points for their tango to Shania Twain’s That Don’t Impress Me Much. Antonia and Xu performed their cha-cha to Aretha Franklin’s Respect again. They had scored 27 points, but ended up in the bottom two after the public vote was combined with the judges’ scores. The judges’ decision was unanimous. Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke voted to save Antonia and Xu, and head judge Shirley Ballas said she would have chosen the same couple. Because the other three judges agreed, Ballas did not need to cast a deciding vote, according to one account of the results. Storey, a Paralympian, and Caillon had performed their tango again in the dance-off. Their elimination followed a week in which Storey and Caillon were at the bottom of the leaderboard, while the...