Strictly Come Dancing’s fifth eliminated contestant revealed after shock Halloween dance off

STRICTLY Come Dancing’s latest elimination saw a tear-jerking goodbye to Dr Punam Krishan. 

The TV doctor, who was partnered with Gorka Márquez, said farewell to the amusement aft falling into the dreaded dance-off connected Halloween week. 

As the BBC competition continued, Dr Punam and Gorka were forced to spell head-to-head with Shayne Ward and Nancy Xu to combat for their spot successful the show. 

Re-performing their routines for the spooky-themed series, Punam and Gorka performed their Tango to Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics, earlier Shayne and Nancy performed a Paso Doble to In The Hall of The Mountain King by Edvard Grieg.  

The judges past decided unanimously to prevention Shayne and Nancy. 

Speaking to Tess Daly aft her elimination was confirmed, Dr Punam said: “I americium truly arrogant of myself. You cognize I’ve taken connected thing that’s truthful retired of my comfortableness zone. 

“The 1 happening that I’ve precise overmuch learnt is to accidental yes more, and that determination is nary constituent successful your beingness erstwhile you tin halt learning caller skills.” 

“I’ve learnt much than dancing, I’ve learnt truthful overmuch from Gorka,” she said of her partner.

“Everyone’s been truthful unthinkable and it’s conscionable memories that I’ll instrumentality location everlastingly and I americium precise proud. 

“I’ve made my household precise proud, I’m conscionable truly grateful.” 

Speaking of her clip connected the series, Dr Punam said: “This is conscionable 1 of those things that I person dreamt astir for years and I deliberation to person 1 of your dreams genuinely travel existent is conscionable a surreal feeling. 

“Week aft week it’s been incredible, I’ve made friends for beingness and everyone’s conscionable been truthful kind, truthful convey you.” 

Gorka besides heaped praise connected his partner, telling her: “It's been incredible, it's been a fantastic six weeks. I'm precise arrogant of what she has achieved. 

“She's a GP and a mum, she had ne'er danced earlier and I deliberation she improved week by week.

“I deliberation she is genuinely what the amusement is about, idiosyncratic who doesn't person acquisition successful the show satellite came present and learnt to dance. She wanted to bash truthful good and worked truthful hard.” 

He besides made a motion to their groundbreaking Bollywood show from Movies Week 2 weeks ago, telling Tess: “I consciousness precise arrogant and precise honoured that  we got to bash a Bollywood dance, to correspond your culture, amusement your civilization to the satellite and unfastened doors for truthful galore radical successful your culture.” 

The brace ended their goodbyes with Dr Punam saying: “Thank you. Thank you for believing successful me. Thank you for giving maine the acquisition of dancing. I've ne'er danced before, but you've decidedly sparked truthful overmuch dancing. 

“I privation to larn more, and I decidedly don't deliberation this volition beryllium the extremity of my travel dancing.”

During Sunday night’s results show, the professionals opened the evening with a Halloween-themed creation inspired by the movie Beetlejuice, with a unrecorded show from Lady Blackbird. 

Unfortunately, Amy Dowden was missing from the festivities, aft collapsing backstage and being rushed to hospital aft Saturday’s unrecorded show. 

The pro dancer, who is partnered with JLS’s JB Gill, has conscionable completed bosom crab attraction - was attended by paramedics astatine Elstree Studios earlier being transferred to infirmary to beryllium checked over. 

Strictly Come Dancing continues adjacent Saturday astatine 6.30pm connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer.