BBC Strictly Come Dancing star issues five-word response after emotional exit

On Sunday night, BBC viewers saw the archetypal Strictly Come Dancing personage to permission the contention aft 2 stars went caput to caput connected the dancefloor.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Tom Dean has go the archetypal personage to permission the contention aft uncovering himself successful the bottommost two.

Despite earning a respectable people of 23 for his show successful week two, the Olympian had to creation disconnected against histrion Toyah Wilcox and her nonrecreational spouse Neil Jones.

Both had to instrumentality to the dancefloor different clip arsenic BBC viewers saw Tom and Nadiya Bychkova repetition their Cha Cha to Boogie Wonderland by Earth, Wind & Fire.

Then Toyah and Neil performed their Jive to Nutbush City Limits by Ike & Tina Turner earlier it was clip for the judges to determine who would beryllium going home.

Although it wasn’t a unanimous determination arsenic Anton Du Beke was the lone idiosyncratic who wanted to support Tom and Nadiya successful the competition.

As Motsi Mabuse and Craig Revel Horwood opted to prevention Toyah and Neil, it was down to caput justice Shirley Ballas to determine who should remain.

In the end, she decided to prevention Toyah and Neil, agreeing with her chap 2 judges and ending Tom’s clip connected Strictly Come Dancing.

Speaking to big Tess Daly astir his clip successful the show, the Olympian commented: “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’ve had the astir amusive and I privation we could support going longer and longer. We’ll inactive spell retired for loads of brunches I’m sure.”

His nonrecreational spouse Nadiya had thing but praise erstwhile speaking astir Tom, admitting helium besides taught her immoderate things during their clip together.

She said: “To get to cognize him, 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.

“And you cognize what? On this programme, sometimes to win, you don’t request to win, and that’s however I consciousness this year.”

Although Tom’s clip successful the contention has travel to an end, viewers volition spot the remaining 14 stars instrumentality to the dancefloor adjacent week successful a spectacular Movie Week Special.

Currently, Tasha Ghouri and Aljaž Škorjanec are storming up connected the leaderboard with a combined people from weeks 1 and 2 of 65.

Not acold down is Sarah Hadland and Vito Coppola with a full of 62 for their 2 routines.

However, connected the different extremity of the spectrum, Toyah Willcox and Neil Jones are bottommost of the leaderboard with a full of 30.

Although it’s Chris McCausland who is the existent bookies' favourite to triumph the bid arsenic his likelihood basal astatine 11/44, with Tasha adjacent down astatine 3/1.

Nicola McGeady of Ladbrokes said: “Chris McCausland has burst retired of the traps arsenic the 1 to beat, thing that has taken america by astonishment fixed helium was 20/1 earlier the opening night.”

Strictly Come Dancing continues adjacent Saturday connected BBC One from 6:25pm.