Chris Ramsey and his partner Karen Hauer have survived to dance another week on Strictly Come Dancing.

Despite coming bottom in the show scoring only 23 points on Saturday night, they were saved by the public vote and did not need to appear in the dance-off. Ramsey tweeted his appreciation: "Thank you all SO MUCH for voting! You kept us in this thing and we can’t thank you enough! See you all next week."

On Saturday night they danced a samba version of the Backstreet Boys' Everybody in the Strictly Come Dancing Halloween show.

The judges' responses were mixed. 

Motsi Mabuse said: "Those hips, they kind of warmed up...you gave fun to that samba." - six points 

Shirley Ballas pointed out that there were some mistakes and added "I would have liked to have seen just a but more in the body." six points

Bruno Tolioni added: "Somehow the whole kind of thing worked in a spooky way." six points

And Craig Revel Horwood said: "It did look like you came back from the dead, there wasn't much going on." five points.

Before the performance the South Shields stand-up was upbeat about his stint on the series. "I didn't expect to make it all the way to Halloween week, but then I didn't expect to make it to week two. And you can't get voted off in week one." Afterwards he said "it's the best I could do in a week." 

Dancing Picture: BBC/Guy Levy