Ten celebrities start their final week of rehearsals today as they prepare to battle to be crowned champions of 'Let's Dance For Comic Relief 2009'.
'The Bill' actors Lisa Maxwell and Patrick Robinson produced a "show-stopping" performance of Riverdance on the BBC One show on Saturday night to secure their place in the final alongside three comedians, two presenters and a fellow actor.
Olympic champion Denise Lewis and Great Britain rugby league player Martin Offiah won the last final place with their version of Shakalaka Baby from the musical Bombay Dreams.
Maxwell, Robinson - best known for playing Ash in BBC One's 'Casualty' - Lewis and Offiah will take on comedian Jo Brand, presenters Dick and Dom, comedians Paddy McGuinness and Keith Lemon and Peep Show actor Robert Webb in next Saturday's final.
Maxwell and Robinson donned green sequins for their high-energy performance and Maxwell, who plays Det Insp Samantha Nixon in the 'The Bill', said she was "absolutely stunned" to have won.
Host Steve Jones described last night's winning performance as a "show-stealer" and the judges had nothing but praise for the duo.
Comedian Dara O'Briain said: "Irish dancing is difficult. I've done it myself. It's incredibly easy to do Riverdance badly, but they didn't. They did it brilliantly."
Model Lisa Snowdon said they showed "masses of energy" and Strictly Come Dancing's Anton Du Beke said: "The hair stood up on the back of my neck."
In another fund raising effort all nine Comic Relief celebrity climbers reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro after an agonising climb on Saturday.
Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole was among the first of the celebrity team to reach the 5,900m peak at the end of a six-hour trek described as "hell on earth".
The others battling oxygen levels half of those at sea level and temperatures of minus 15 degrees were presenter Fearne Cotton, Denise Van Outen, GMTV host Ben Shephard, Cole's band mate Kimberley Walsh, singer Ronan Keating, Take That star Gary Barlow, Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles and pop star Alesha Dixon.
