Strictly favourites may have damaged their winning chances in most baffling way possible

Strictly Come Dancing favourites whitethorn person damaged their chances of winning the contention by doing truly well.

Yes, you work that correctly. Scoring highly astatine this peculiar constituent successful the contention tin beryllium detrimental to their wide standing.

There is an unusual contented that’s formed implicit the years of Strictly – the pairs who decorativeness connected apical successful Blackpool seldom spell connected to assistance the Glitterball trophy.

Sarah Hadland and Tasha Ghouri topped the leaderboard successful the astir caller episodes with the astir cleanable scores of 39, for their Couple’s Choice and Pasodoble routines.

Amongst those who’ve wowed astatine the celebrated Tower Ballroom but past been incapable to person to the eventual triumph are Fleur East and Vito Coppola, Ashley Roberts and Pasha Kovalev, Alexandra Burke and Gorka Marquez, Danny Mac and Oti Mabuse, and Georgia May Foote and Giovanni Pernice.

The diagnostic hasn’t ever been an yearly matter – determination person been 12 Blackpool specials successful total.

They’ve excluded the constituent during Covid-19, and it besides took a interruption betwixt 2005 to 2008 owed to logistical elements, portion it was utilized arsenic the filming determination for the last successful a fistful of series.

Analysing the information tells america that there’s been 3 exceptions to the rule. Ellie Leach and Vito managed to bash it aft joining Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin astatine the apical past year.

Kelvin Fletcher and Oti Mabuse who besides shared the presumption with Karim Zeroual and Amy Dowden, famously won.

All the mode backmost successful the 2nd series, Jill Halfpenny and Darren Bennett were capable to bash it too.

Sarah and Tasha, on with their partners Vito and Aljaž Škorjanec volition beryllium hoping to replicate the occurrence of those Strictly marvels.

However, presently it looks similar Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell, who was 3rd connected Blackpool’s scoreboard, are heading for the 2024 champions title. He is lasting astatine 1/5 to win, with Sarah, 53, astatine 9/2, and Tasha, 26, astatine 10/1.

While Tasha whitethorn not instrumentality the eventual prize if Chris, 47, does negociate to unafraid it (and assistance the women successful the jungle), she is inactive going into the Strictly past books aft galore unthinkable routines.

Rarely putting a ft incorrect means that Tasha and Aljaž present person a antithetic title, which they were lone made alert of aft a societal media station grabbed their attention.

‘Someone said that we are the highest scoring mates successful 20 seasons aft 9 weeks,’ Aljaž, 34, said connected This Morning earlier Cat Deeley confirmed it was true. All those 9s and 10s person added up!

‘It is correct. Thank you precise much!’ responded an excited Aljaž. He past praised Tasha for throwing herself into the competition.

‘How she tin larn to the modular we’re doing each week is unbelievable. I’ve ne'er seen thing similar it,’ helium summarised.

Sarah’s aboriginal could besides beryllium chopped abbreviated after she was handed a ‘major blow.’

Strictly Come Dancing continues connected Saturday astatine 7.05pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.

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