Strictly Come Dancing star Tasha Ghouri's tearful breakdown over cruel remarks and best comeback

Former Love Island contestant Tasha Ghouri, 26, was targeted by cruel trolls aft she appeared connected the ITV world show. The now-Strictly contestant responded successful the champion imaginable way

Tasha Ghouri is 1 of the favourites to triumph Strictly Come Dancing, typically finishing apical of the person committee past week with her nonrecreational spouse Aljaz Skorjanec.

JB Gill and Lauren Oakley besides scored 37, the highest scores successful the contention truthful far, sending some couples done successful benignant to the Blackpool Tower Ballroom. Tasha, 26, archetypal became good known aft her quality successful Love Island successful 2022.

She adjacent recovered emotion connected the show, finishing 4th with her "future husband" Andrew Le Page, who she is present renovating a location with. But becoming celebrated wasn't each affirmative - connected past weekend's Strictly, Tasha spoke of cruel online trolls who had made amusive of her disability.

The world prima was calved deaf and uses a cochlear implant, prompting mean societal media users to marque videos astir the mode she speaks.

Tasha, from North Yorkshire, was truthful affected by the maltreatment she received aft Love Island that she felt she had fto down "the full deaf community". "When I near the show, I retrieve my dada sat maine down and helium looked astatine maine consecutive and said: 'Tash, determination is simply a batch of horrific worldly that was written astir you, particularly connected societal media,'" she said. "There are videos made astir my dependable and the mode I speak, it became a inclination astatine 1 point."

The Strictly contestant reached stone bottommost but vowed not to fto the trolls triumph and today, she has 2.2 cardinal followers crossed her societal media platforms. "I'm going to usage my level and amended people," she said.

After her stint connected Love Island arsenic the archetypal deaf contestant, Tasha became a viral sensation connected TikTok for her Get Ready With Me video which saw millions watched her region her cochlear implant and talk with her deaf accent. She has written a romance caller too, Hits Different, featuring a main quality with proceeding loss.

"Reading each of your reviews honestly has maine beaming broadside to side," she wrote connected Instagram. "Never successful a cardinal years did I deliberation I would co-author a romance caller with a main quality who is deaf and wears a cochlear implant.

Tasha's clip connected the creation contestant comes 3 years aft Rose Ayling-Ellis became Strictly's deaf contestant and went onto assistance the Glitterball Trophy. She describes Strictly arsenic a "dream travel true" and her unthinkable performances truthful acold mean she could travel successful Rose's footsteps.

The talented performer took up ballet arsenic a youngster and aboriginal trained successful commercialized thoroughfare style, going onto enactment arsenic a freelance dancer. But she insists: "Commercial creation is precise antithetic to ballroom creation and Latin, I'm inactive having to portion down and relearn, adjacent walking successful cha cha measurement is weird to me."