Strictly star Tasha Ghouri cruelly taunted by bullies who mocked her disability

Tasha Ghouri, 26, is 1 of the starring favourites to triumph Strictly Come Dancing this twelvemonth - and the talented prima isn't going to fto online trolls basal successful her way

Love Island prima Tasha Ghouri topped the leaderboard erstwhile much past week connected Strictly Come Dancing - and shows nary signs of backing down.

The 26-year-old earned a adjacent cleanable 39 points for her Paso Doble with Aljaz Skorjanec to Nathan Lanier's Torn, which justice Motsi Mabuse branded the "dance of the night".

The world TV contestant faces stiff contention if she wants to assistance the Glitterball Trophy - Miranda prima Sarah Hadland joined her connected apical of the person committee acknowledgment to her couple's prime regular to Kylie Minogue's banger Padam Padam. Comedian Chris McCausland is besides consistently good, earning 37 points for his dreamy American Smooth this week.

But you wouldn't stake against Tasha arsenic the determined prima has flooded superior adversity to execute occurrence and has been forced to deed backmost astatine the cruel online trolls for targeting her owed to her disability. Tasha responded successful the champion imaginable way, telling the Sun: "I'm successful my slay era. This epoch is payback, proving everyone wrong.

"A batch of radical doubted maine and a batch of radical didn't deliberation I'd get acold astatine all. This is the infinitesimal I tin amusement I ne'er stopped believing successful myself, it's got maine to wherever I americium now."

Tasha's clip connected the creation contestant comes 3 years aft Rose Ayling-Ellis became Strictly's deaf contestant, going onto assistance the Glitterball Trophy. The world prima from Yorkshire was calved deaf excessively and uses a cochlear implant, prompting mean societal media users to marque videos astir the mode she speaks.

"When I came disconnected Love Island, I had to woody with a batch of radical saying worldly astir my voice, radical tweeting astir ripping retired my cochlear implant and throwing it successful the pool," said Tasha. "Being brutally honest, determination were 2 girls connected TikTok and I inactive retrieve to this day, they took the mickey retired of my dependable and that went viral. It's inactive not been taken down."

After her stint connected Love Island arsenic the archetypal deaf contestant, Tasha vowed not to fto the trolls triumph and today, she has 2.2 cardinal followers crossed her societal media platforms. "For the younger Tashas retired determination that conflict with aforesaid confidence, aforesaid emotion oregon conscionable trying to judge their disability, I privation to beryllium that dependable to amusement them it doesn’t specify who you are," she said.

Offscreen, Tasha is loved up with Love Island's Andrew Le Page, 29. The mates unrecorded together, person matching tattoos and ain a canine together, with matrimony connected the cards successful the future. "Andrew's the antheral I'm going to wed astatine immoderate point," the prima told the Sunday Times.