Strictly fix row kicks off as Olympian Tom Dean is eliminated over ‘weaker’ dancer in dance-off – leaving fans furious

STRICTLY fans person branded the amusement a hole aft fan-favourite Tom Dean was booted disconnected the amusement successful tonight's archetypal elimination.

Olympic golden medallist Tom, 24, recovered himself successful the creation disconnected against vocalist and histrion Toyah Willcox, 66.

Both couples performed their routines again, arsenic Tom and pro dancer Nadiya Bychkova performed their Cha Cha to Boogie Wonderland by Earth, Wind & Fire.

Toyah and Neil Jones past took to the dancefloor for their Jive to Nutbush City Limits by Ike & Tina Turner.

80s punk icon Toyah landed astatine the bottommost with Neil Jones, scoring a full combined people of 30, and Tom recovered himself successful ninth spot with 46 points.

After some couples danced a 2nd time, the judges delivered their verdicts.

Craig Revel Horwood chose to prevention Toyah and Neil and Motsi Mabuse besides picked to prevention the aforesaid couple.

But Anton Du Beke thought Tom and Nadiya danced amended and voted to prevention him.

With 2 votes for Toyah and Neil, and 1 ballot for Tom and Nadiya, Head Judge Shirley Ballas had the deciding ballot and chose to prevention Toyah and Neil.

When asked by Tess 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 most amusive and I privation we could support going longer and longer. We’ll inactive spell retired for loads of brunches I’m sure.”

Nadiya added: “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.”

Sunday’s Results Show besides featured a regular from the judges and nonrecreational dancers to When Doves Cry by Prince.

The remaining 14 couples volition instrumentality to the dancefloor next week successful a spectacular Movie Week Special erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing returns.

Spoiler Alert

The ballot disconnected whitethorn not travel arsenic a astonishment to immoderate arsenic precocious past nighttime the results were leaked online by a notorious mole.

The Sun chose not to uncover the celebrity who was booted off, but fans were stunned that the Olympian was fixed the boot.

One spectator fumed: "How tin they prevention who they saved, seriously?!"

A 2nd retweeted the spoiler results connected their X relationship and wrote: "Give over… This makes maine truthful sad."

A 3rd posted: "Sorry but what that Strictly spoiler," followed by bittersweet emojis.

This idiosyncratic shared: "Me speechmaking the #StrictlySpoiler and uncovering retired who was eliminated. Kinda Shocked."

While different added: "People who station spoilers of competitory TV shows #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing are genuinely the worst
Like why???"

Yesterday, Tasha Ghouri and her pro spouse Aljaz Škorjanec topped the leaderboard with a coagulated people of 65 - arsenic past week's scores were added to past night's.

Tasha's dada was near successful floods of tears arsenic the brace broke the grounds for the highest scoring week 2 Viennese Waltz successful Strictly's history.

Meanwhile, determination was a highly affectional infinitesimal for histrion and singer Shayne Ward, who bravely addressed the 'difficult week' he'd had.

Shayne recovered himself falling unfortunate to cruel trolls following his debut connected the creation level with Nancy Xu last week.

He admitted: "It's been a precise pugnacious week. I conscionable absorption connected the radical that emotion me, that's each that matters."