Strictly's Tasha Ghouri defended by pal after dance experience and link to pros revealed

EXCLUSIVE: A person of Strictly Come Dancing's Tasha Ghouri says the contestant is much astatine a disadvantage than an advantage, owed to her cochlear implant and fearfulness of performing with unrecorded music

Strictly Come Dancing prima Tasha Ghouri has been defended by her Love Island co-star Chloe Burrows, pursuing backlash astir her creation experience.

Last week, the 26-year-old scored an awesome 30 points aft performing the Cha Cha to Sabrina Carpenter's Expresso, alongside creation spouse Aljaz Skorjanec.

While galore viewers praised her jaw-dropping efforts connected the level X, others person claimed that she is astatine an vantage owed to her erstwhile creation experience.

Tasha, who was calved deaf and wears a cochlear implant, specialises successful commercialized dancing aft grooming astatine the Creative Academy.

She has performed successful galore competitions and has besides appeared successful a euphony video, but hasn't had acquisition successful Ballroom and Latin dancing.

Defending her close to beryllium connected the creation floor, Chloe, 29, said: "Tasha is going to bash perfectly amazing! She volition enactment her bosom and psyche into this, I privation her to win.

"Obviously she's got a spot of a dancing background, well, not a bit, she's a talented dancer, she's got rhythm.

"I cognize she said she hasn't danced successful beforehand of unrecorded euphony before, truthful she's a spot disquieted astir that.

"But, I deliberation she's going to perfectly smash it. I really deliberation she mightiness win, similar genuinely, I deliberation she's got it successful the bag."

Hitting backmost astatine claims that her person is astatine an advantage, Chloe expressed her hopes astatine the assemblage getting down her and voting.

"Tasha has got a dancing past, but she's besides got a cochlear implant, which means she mightiness beryllium astatine a disadvantage to those who person danced successful beforehand of unrecorded euphony before.

"She's perfectly smashing it and also, that was her prime to person a dancing background, truthful rightly so, Strictly is the b****y amusement for her, wherefore not?

"I don't deliberation she deserves immoderate backlash, it's wholly just and I cognize she's going to smash it."

Tasha herself arsenic stressed however commercialized dancing couldn't beryllium immoderate antithetic to the styles she's learning connected Strictly.

While learning the Cha Cha, she said conscionable learning however to locomotion successful show and letting Aljaz pb the mode was hard to set to.

"I’ve gotta artifact retired that sound and luckily I’ve been successful this manufacture for 2 years and I’ve grown truthful overmuch stronger aft Love Island – determination was truthful overmuch negativity,” she said.

“[Strictly] is my dream. It’s thing I’ve dreamt of for truthful long. So I’m doing this for maine and my household and my partner.”

Ahead of her Strictly stint, the ex Love Island prima antecedently worked with the show's pro Johannes Radebe presenting a creation store for Queen Camilla.

She was besides erstwhile romantically nexus to axed pro Giovanni Pernice, who is presently astatine the centre of an ongoing interior probe pursuing misconduct claims, which helium powerfully denies.

Addressing her past with Giovanni, she told The Sun: "I've met up with him a fewer times. But that was years ago. We are not successful interaction now, this is similar past history."

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Strictly Come Dancing airs contiguous astatine 6:15pm connected BBC One.