Well the votes are in, your votes that is. I've been reading your comments and a whopping 79% of you think that Candy Lane is the one who should be sent home!

A whimsically dressed Nerida and Monty are first up on the dance floor. At first glance I thought Monty was getting ready for an Amish hoedown, but it transpires that their 40's inspired getup is for the jive. Monty gives Nerida what looks like a triple body spin before throwing her through his legs in what is fast becoming their signature move. You can tell these two have been studying old Torville and Dean videotapes.

Their triple axles are so cribbed from the world of ice skating. Craig describes it as ‘lively, but very heavy and apish". Jason Gunn takes a cue from his name and insists on measuring Montys pork loin ‘guns'. Peculiar.

Peter and Hayley emerge for the tango. The pressure is on for these two following their weak showing in episode 2. Peter seems to have been taking tips from the Geeling Ng School of Dancing and gives us a sampling of his finest robot dance. Hayley looks like she is wearing a shiny gold costume she pinched from a mummy exhibit.

Did Peter's knee just give out again or was he really doing the funky chicken? The funky robot chicken that is. Paul says he now has hope for the pair, but Craig finds the whole thing ‘awkward and hunched'. Their score is a dismal 17. Jason, who loves a good cliché, can't help from commenting ‘silence is golden, less is more' when Hayley refrains from giving her true opinion on the judges findings.

Temepara and Stefano do a fantastic jive in which Temepara cartwheels for the finale. The crowd are loving them, and so are the judges. Even grumpy old Craig can't resist their magical charms and states that he ‘loved it from beginning to end'. This is even more astounding when you consider that Temepara has two children, 10 and 14 years of age. She looks like a teenager herself!!

Martin and Lauren's number is called for the tango. Lauren slinks solo across the dance floor, but where is Martin? She shimmies her way over to the seated crowd and drapes herself across an audience member. Why is she writhing across George Hamilton? Oh wait, that's not George Hamilton, that's his doppelganger Martin Devlin, minus the eleven layers of tan. Poor Shane Cortese squirms in the seat next to him as they cavort uncomfortably within his personal space. They eventually desist with the lap dancing and start the real dancing.

This is Martin's dance, he has a naturally stuck up expression which translates well to the haughty tango. Lauren grits her teeth as if an imaginary rose were gripped betwixt them. It's really good.

Martin kisses one of his more mature fans in the audience on his way to meet the judges, and Alison provides us with an awkwardly hilarious moment when she laughingly suggests ‘that was your mum in the audience'. Martin deadpans "yeah, it would have been dad's birthday today'. Beetroot face! Alison adopts a stunned mullet stare for about half a minute of dead air. There is another odd bicep measuring moment and the pair retire with a very respectable 28.

Tina and Aaron resurrect the old Jimmy Barnes chestnut "Good Time Tonight' for their jive. It looks a bit like Riverdance crossed with yoga arms to me. Brendan finds it "stiff and hard" and the judges all agree that the choreography is lacking. Apart from Craig of course who hates to agree with Brendan and denounces his opinion as ‘a load of rubbish, I loved it". So there.

Boring! Do they all have to be so good? Can't someone just be a teensy bit crap and give us something to laugh at?

Miriama and Jonny are up for the tango. You may have read in Anna's column this week that Miriama and Jonny have been out and about together picnicking. Is this real or is this a TVNZ concocted faux-mance? They sneer, they grit their teeth like angry ponies (the clenched jaw must be the basic tenet of the tango), they paw at the ground like hungry ponies.

They stomp and whinny like mating ponies. You just know this is going to be good. The judges are elated with their dance, apart from Alison; she is so hard to please! Imagine if you were one of her pets, you would never be able to play dead to her standards. And I bet she wouldn't give you a treat just for the hell of it. She urges all the dancers to push their celebs harder. Paul pulls out the magical 10 point paddle and Miriama and Jonny tango off into the sunset with a killer score of 36.

Cory and Rebecca are the final competitors, Jason hopes they can dance between the flags and not get caught in the judges' rip. Who writes your stuff Jason? Your grandad?

Cory and Rebecca's jive has a surf theme, which is appropriate as their charity is surf lifesaving. They start off by lying on the floor and then jumping up to get on their imaginary surfboards. Cory looks just like Hawaii Ken!

It's really not that great as they've had to miss some practice this week, but you can forgive Cory because he seems like such a nice guy. He takes his cute kids along to rehearsal and does a shoutout to his daughter. Ohhh we love a family guy, especially one who doesn't dance too slutty with his partner!

Special guest star Delta Goodrem performs for us while the votes are tabulated. She thumps away at her keyboard while pretending to sing. Sorry Delts, but I got bored of all the perfect performances and your lack of a voice and had to go make a cup of tea.

When I returned she was still lip-synching away while her back-up singers got progressively louder and started outsinging her. I'm sure I saw her shoot them the evils.

And then it was elimination time. The glorious Yahoo!Xtra poll predicted that Peter and Hayley would be jettisoned this week and how right you were. Are you people psychic?

Peter graciously accepts defeat and he and Hayley take to the dancefloor for one final spin. I can never understand why they make people do that on these shows. Especially on American Idol. I think they last thing you would feel like doing is performing for a bunch of people who had basically told you that you suck.

These two however are consummate professionals and they take another turn to the Spandau Ballet Classic ‘Gold'. Hayley saves her best whiplash neck twists for their farewell dance.

And so with a single tear cascading down my cheek, I leave you to ponder who will be the winners and losers in next week's gripping episode.