The latest celebrity to be axed from Strictly Come Dancing has been leaked online – leaving fans fuming.
Saturday night’s competition heated up with the addition of a Samba-thon which saw contestants competing against one another on the dance floor. The controversial dance-athons prove rather chaotic on the BBC show each year. The scores are combined with the points the celebrities are award for their main dance, which has the potential to tip the leaderboard upside down.
The results show is pre-recorded every week on the Saturday evening after the live show, but then airs on the Sunday. The Mirror reports knowing the name of the celebrity that has been booted off, but has chosen not to name them.
After the leaked result, fans flocked to X – formerly Twitter – to vent their frustration overnight. One fumed: “Gutted for them.” While another commented: “I’m shocked at this” and a third wrote: “I’m not one to moan at these things usually, but what a ridiculous result.”
Another raged: “Disgraceful neither should have been there!!!!” One gasped: “WHAT?! I thought one of them would be in the bottom not both of them!” A fan fumed: “OH HELL NO!”
Others suggested that certain celebrities had been “stitched up” by implementing the Samba-thon. One fan tweeted: “I think the “sambathon” was put in to try and get certain celebrities down the leaderboard and make the dance-off easier for the judges and it’s backfired.”
On Saturday evening, Tasha Ghouri and Aljaz Skorjanec soared to the top after scoring the first perfect 40 of the series with their show-stopping American Smooth to Lewis Capaldi’s Someone You Loved. The dance, which the pro dedicated to his young daughter, left Shirley Ballas “speechless” and Anton Du Beke in tears, saying it reminded him of “why we dance”.
Top place in the Samba-thon, however, went to JB Gill and Lauren Oakley, who came joint top of the leaderboard after scoring 39 for their Charleston to Yes Sir! That’s My Baby by Firehouse Five Plus Two.
Sitting at the bottom of the leaderboard were Pete Wicks and Jowita Przystał, who struggled to impress with their Tango to Phil Collins and Phil Bailey’s 1984 song Easy Lover, which they scored just 29 for. Their Samba scored them an additional three points after they came fifth out of the seven couples.
Just sitting above them on the leaderboard were Jamie Borthwick and Michelle Tsiakkas, who scored a total of 34 for the two dances, and Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell, who scored 34. Chris and Dianne came bottom of the Samba-thon.
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