Strictly Come Dancing star suffers devastating blow moments after first live show

Week 1 of the BBC One creation contention kicked disconnected connected Saturday nighttime arsenic the celebrities and their nonrecreational partners took to the celebrated creation floor

Strictly Come Dancing prima Tasha Ghouri has present go the favourite to triumph the BBC deed amusement aft impressing viewers and judges connected the creation floor, handing a devastating stroke to different contestant.

It’s present not looking bully for Toyah Willcox arsenic the vocalist saw her winning likelihood plummet. Following the pre-recorded motorboat amusement past weekend, week 1 of the BBC One creation contention kicked disconnected connected Saturday nighttime (September 21) with a regular from the nonrecreational dancers.

Ahead of the show, JLS prima JB Gill, who has been paired with Welsh nonrecreational Amy Dowden, was the bookies' favourite to instrumentality location the Glitterball trophy but present Tasha Ghouri has overtaken the outright market, contempt finishing successful 2nd spot connected past night's leaderboard.

Tasha received a lasting ovation aft her Cha Cha Cha show to Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter with spouse Aljaz Skorjanec. Head Judge Shirley Ballas said the world prima has 'the astir spectacular limb actions she has ever seen connected this show' and was awarded a monolithic 30 points from the panel.

The Love Island star, 26, is present priced astatine 3/1 to win. Hot connected her heels is comedian Chris McCausland, who has surged from 20/1 to a competitory 7/2 aft wowing fans with an unthinkable performance, pushing JB Gill into 3rd astatine 4/1.

Meanwhile, Pete Wicks and Toyah Willcox person taken important blows, with Pete’s likelihood dropping from 16/1 to 20/1, and Toyah’s plummeting from 16/1 to 100/1. As a result, Toyah is present the favourite to beryllium the archetypal eliminated, priced astatine 3/6 to permission adjacent weekend.

Analysing the latest odds, Betfred’s Kayley Cornelius said: "A pugnacious archetypal week for Toyah Willcox, who present finds herself trailing down her peers astatine the bottommost of the leaderboard aft the archetypal circular of unrecorded performances. Priced astatine 3/6, she’s present the favourite to beryllium the archetypal eliminated from the competition.

"It wasn’t conscionable a unsmooth nighttime for Toyah—Pete Wicks besides struggled, and arsenic a result, his likelihood of 16/1 to triumph person present been lengthened to a measly 20/1. He present finds himself successful a worrying spot for adjacent play and risks landing successful the dance-off if helium doesn’t measurement up his game.

"On the flip side, shot pundit Paul Merson, who tied with Pete astatine a people of 17, whitethorn person caught a break. Before Saturday night, helium was astir definite to beryllium the archetypal to go, but he’s shown helium mightiness connection much contention than expected. While his presumption is inactive shaky and priced astatine 2/1 to spell adjacent weekend, if Paul delivers connected the dancefloor, helium could past different week.

"Meanwhile, Nick Knowles seems to person turned things around. Like Paul, Nick's chances connected the amusement looked grim, but aft narrowly beating Paul and Pete by a azygous constituent this weekend, a coagulated show adjacent week could support him successful the contention a small longer."

Strictly Come Dancing airs connected BBC One and iPlayer