Love Island star Tasha Ghouri gets first Strictly 10s for 2024

Love Island prima Tasha Ghouri has scored the archetypal 10s of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing bid arsenic she tops the leaderboard for the 3rd consecutive week.

The 26-year-old, who is the show’s 2nd deaf contestant, scored 3 10s for her and nonrecreational spouse Aljaz Skorjanec’s Charleston, which justice Anton Du Beke said was “practically perfect”.

Another stand-out regular during Saturday night’s instalment of the fashionable BBC amusement included a salsa from EastEnders prima Jamie Borthwick and nonrecreational spouse Michelle Tsiakkas.

The duo earned a lasting ovation arsenic good arsenic a people of 34 points, their highest of the bid truthful far, with Du Beke telling the brace it was their “best creation to date”.

Also scoring highly was Welsh opera vocalist Wynne Evans and Katya Jones, whose tango to Abba’s Money, Money, Money scored 34 points from the judges, with Mabuse enthusing: “This is wherefore I emotion Strictly Come Dancing.”

While waiting to perceive their scores Evans, 52, told presenter Claudia Winkleman: “I truly didn’t deliberation I’d enactment for a week. I’m an overweight opera vocalist truthful I’m having the champion time, truthful possibly abdominous men tin dance.”

He besides joked: “I recovered my ribs this week, not seen them since 1987.”

The occurrence besides saw DIY SOS prima Nick Knowles returning to the dancefloor aft helium was incapable to instrumentality portion successful past week’s movie-themed peculiar due to the fact that of injury.

Knowles, 62, and Strictly nonrecreational Luba Mushtuk performed the regular they had planned for movie week, a Charleston to Rain On The Roof from the Paddington 2 soundtrack, earning a people of 21.

Comedian Chris McCausland, 47, the show’s archetypal unsighted contestant, continued his occurrence streak arsenic helium and Australian dancer Dianne Buswell performed a salsa to Down Under by Men At Work.

Judge Revel Horwood, who was calved successful Australia, enactment connected his champion Aussie accent to present feedback, telling the couple: “I thought it was bonza” – an Australian connection that tin mean fantabulous oregon great.

The amusement was opened by vocalist Shayne Ward and Nancy Xu, who scored a full of 30 for their cha cha, portion Miranda prima Sarah Hadland and Vito Coppola were fixed 27 for their foxtrot to Billie Eilish’s Birds Of A Feather.

Coming successful astatine the bottommost of the leaderboard this week is This Morning prima Dr Punam Krishan and Gorka Marquez, whose Jive to 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) by Lizzo scored 20 points.