Strictly Come Dancing reveals first celebrity eliminated from 2024 series

The caller bid of Strictly Come Dancing is good and genuinely underway with the first contestant eliminated aft having ‘the champion time’.

The BBC’s beloved creation contention has had a shakey commencement fixed the play unfolding distant from the ballroom level and complaints from viewers astir lacklustre outfits.

However, the amusement indispensable spell connected and aft their archetypal creation yesterday, Tom Dean and Nadiya Bychkova had to look Toyah Willcox and Neil Jones successful the dance-off.

After reprising their Cha Cha to Boogie Wonderland, Tom and Nadiya were fixed the chop and indispensable permission the competition.

Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, and caput justice Shirley Ballas voted to prevention Toyah and Neil who performed a Jive to Nutbush City Limits by Ike & Tina Turner.

Anton Du Beke had voted to prevention the Olympian but was outnumbered by the deciding ballot from Shirley.

When asked by big Tess Daly astir his clip connected the show, Tom said: ‘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.’

Nadiya praised her personage creation spouse and shared: ‘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.’

The elimination comes aft interest for Nick Knowles aft the DIY SOS presenter injured himself during the run-up to the play debut.

He shared that he’d ‘damaged’ his enarthrosis portion ‘hurriedly’ replacing the tyre connected his car but aboriginal confirmed helium had ‘been fixed clearance to dance’.

The 62-year-old star, antecedently revealed he had mislaid 2 stone due to ‘really tough’ grooming sessions with his partner Luba Mushtuk, 34.

Defiant, Nick performed an American Smooth to Blur’s Parklife but landed himself conscionable 18 points with the dance.

Meanwhile, apical of the leaderboard aft 1 creation is JLS singer JB Gill, who sits supra everyone other connected 31 points aft his affectional waltz with Amy Dowden.

Hot connected his process is Love Island’s Tasha Ghouri and Miranda histrion Sarah Hadland, who are some connected 30.

The results amusement featured a showstopping regular from the judges and professionals to Prince’s deed opus When Doves Cry.

It besides featured a philharmonic show of God Gave Me Feet for Dancing from Mercury Prize winners Ezra Collective featuring Yazmin Lacey.

Next week the remaining 14 couples volition instrumentality to the level for Movie Week, airing connected Saturday, October 5, astatine 6.25pm.

Strictly Come Dancing airs Saturday and Sunday nights connected BBC One, with episodes disposable to ticker arsenic drawback up connected iPlayer.

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