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Strictly Come Dancing's Chris Ramsey to dance to a Backstreet Boys classic for Halloween week

Chris Ramsey will be hoping to 'rock his body right' this weekend as he takes on a Backstreet Boys classic for Strictly Come Dancing's annual Halloween week.

Chris and pro partner Karen Hauer made it through to this weekend after impressing Strictly judges and viewers with their Quickstep, which means that the pair are not gearing up to put on a spook-tacular performance this weekend.

For his best score on Strictly so far, Chris danced a Charleston to Take That's Out of Our Heads and the South Shields comedian will take on another boyband anthem this Saturday in the shape of a Samba to Backstreet Boys' Everybody (Backstreet's Back).

Chris revealed his epic song choice on Monday night's episode of It Takes Two, telling host Rylan: "There's a whole lot of people our age who are relying on me nailing this....I have to do it justice!"

On last Saturday's show we saw with Karen to meet teachers and pupils at Harton Technology College, before dancing for them during assembly.

The pupils all marked the couple 10 - but head Sir Ken Gibson, who recalled Chris playing Bugsy Malone in the school play, marked them a canny seven. He said: "I am more realistic and I will be delighted if Chris and Karen get four sevens."

On Strictly Chris spoke about his worries . He said: "It's when I've got to be sexy that I'm going to be knackered later down the line, if I've got to do tangos and that. The hips worry me. Having to look intense on my face without pulling a stupid grin, that worries me."

Well Ken wasn't far off but we're hoping their Backstreet Boys routine will see them score even higher!

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