Strictly’s Nikita Kuzmin makes ‘mortifying’ blunder that fans dub ‘funniest moment on Strictly this year’

Nikita Kuzmin was left red-faced during tonight’s episode of Strictly Come Dancing following a pretty embarrassing blunder that left fans in hysterics.

Tonight saw Toyah Wilcox waltz away from the competition after she and Paul Merson faced off in the dance-off with their professional partners Neil Jones and Karen Hauer.

After being saved for another week, the remaining contestants chatted with host Claudia Winkleman to share what fans can look forward to when they next hit the dancefloor.

But Nikita, 26, and his celebrity contestant Sam Quek, 35, added a dash of confusion to their announcement after Nikita confused a key element of their performance.

When asked by The Traitors star Claudia if he could give fans a taste of what’s to come, he cheekily responded ‘Oh, I can give you more than a taste’ before revealing they would be dancing the samba.

He then began to sing the iconic lyrics of Shakira’s Whenever, Wherever, before shouting ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, confusing the 2001 single with her 2005 song.

The dancer and his fellow contestants confidently danced along while the audience cheered along before Claudia had to share his mistake with him.

‘Nikita, I love you so much. It was the other Shakira song.’ she said, while Nikita put his head in his hands.

‘How does that go?’ Claudia asked him, before Nikita butchered a rendition of Hips Don’t Lie for extra measure.

The couch then fell apart in peels of laughter as the dancer managed to mistakenly sing the wrong song not once, but twice.

Fans adored this hilarious moment and took to X to share their joy: ‘Nikita getting the wrong shakira song I’m CRYING #strictly,’ said scddevereaux.

‘The Shakira epic fail tonight by @kuzmin__nikitawas one of the funniest moments so far on @bbcstrictly 😂😂😂😂 Ooops 😂😂😂’ said GGreets.

The moment was hilarious and only excited fans even more for next week’s competition.

Last weekend, Tom Dean and Nadiya Bychkova became the first pair to be eliminated from the series, and now,Toyah Willcox and Neil Jones have also been axed.

We will have to wait until next week to see who else faces the chop!