BBC Strictly Come Dancing fans in uproar as Tom Dean crashes out after shock dance off result

The archetypal personage of this year's Strictly Come Dancing has been sent location aft Toyah Willcox and Tom Dean recovered themselves successful the bottommost two

There was wide daze from Strictly Come Dancing fans past nighttime erstwhile Olympian Tom Dean became the archetypal to permission the creation contention aft coming up against Toyah Willcox successful the dreaded creation off.

With the scores added up implicit 2 weeks, the swimming champion was easy expected to triumph the backing of the judges, having drawn 13 much points than his rival, who was languishing astatine the bottommost of the leaderboard.

But adjacent though justice Anton du Beke tried to prevention the triple golden medallist, helium yet mislaid retired to the punk singer, contempt her having 30 points compared with his 43. Tom, 24, and creation spouse Nadiya Bychkova had opened the amusement connected Saturday with a Cha Cha to Boogie Wonderland by Earth, Wind & Fire.

It was a adjacent tally contention with Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse choosing to prevention Toyah and her spouse Neil Jones, who danced a jive to Tina Turner’s Nutbush City Limits. With Anton giving his backing to Tom and Nadiya, the casting ballot went to caput justice Shirley B allas, who saved the 80s euphony star.

Toyah, 66, had threatened to “cry for a week” if she was chosen to permission the competition. Speaking this play she declared: “I’m not acceptable to spell home, I’m loving each minute. This is everything I’ve ever wanted successful beingness - I’m astatine Elstree, I’m successful the astir astonishing programme, I’m with Neil. I’m having the enactment of my life. I conscionable don’t privation to spell backmost and cook!”

She said that hubby Robert Fripp, formerly of King Crimson, was fending for himself for the archetypal clip successful 38 years portion she trained for six hours a time successful London. “I volition honestly person to set to not being successful this unthinkable acquisition if I spell out. We person a precise concealed spot we spell to successful the UK, which is by the sea, and I volition astir apt spell determination and outcry for a week and past get backmost to my mean life. My hubby is 78 and each 2nd of clip with him is very, precise precious but helium knows that I’m loving this and he’s been generous capable to fto maine beryllium present without making immoderate demands connected maine whatsoever.”

Last week Toyah was handed conscionable 12 points for her tango, improving to people 18 for this week’s jive. Tom pulled successful 23 points for his tango debut and 20 points for his Cha Cha, which besides placed him supra chap celebs Nick Knowles, Pete Wicks, Punam Krishan and Paul Merson connected the leaderboard.

The sportsman seemed crestfallen by his aboriginal exit, telling big Tess Daly: “I’ve had the champion clip the past fewer weeks and getting to enactment with Nadiya has been incredible. I privation I could person gone further and done much dances - I privation we could support going longer and longer.”

It’s besides a large stroke for Nadiya, 35, having not been fixed a spouse successful past year’s show. Putting a brave look connected she insisted: “On this programme, sometimes to win, you don’t request to win, and that’s however I consciousness this year.” She added: “He’s not conscionable a three-time Olympic champion he’s a existent man and helium taught maine however to enactment truly hard and however to enactment everything in.”

Nadiya, from Ukraine, joined the bid successful 2017 and has ne'er won. Her champion twelvemonth came successful 2021 erstwhile she finished successful 5th spot with TV presenter Dan Walker.

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