Tasha Ghouri’s dad accused of ‘throwing Strictly rivals under the bus’ as he defends Love Island star’s dance experience

STRICTLY prima Tasha Ghouri's dada has been been accused of "throwing her rivals nether the bus" portion defending her creation experience.

Former Love Island prima Tasha, 26, raised eyebrows erstwhile it was announced she'd joined Strictly Come Dancing this year, having competed successful respective creation competitions previously.

Now her dada Tarek has been slammed by fans for taking to societal media to deed backmost astatine antagonistic comments astir his daughter, who is partnered with Aljaz Skorjanec.

Writing connected Reddit, 1 said: "Every azygous time this antheral is warring with idiots connected Facebook who notation Tasha’s erstwhile creation acquisition (a literal fact) by bringing up different contestants who’ve danced earlier and throwing them close nether the autobus with fans successful bid to divert from his daughter.

"I’m atrocious but I deliberation that’s truly debased down behaviour."

Another wrote: "Is she alert of this? Cause, if this was my dad, we would beryllium having a word."

One remark from Tarek pointed retired that Jamie Borthwick won past year's Strictly Christmas peculiar portion JB Gill has acquisition from his clip successful JLS.

Shortly aft confirming her spot successful this year's series, Tasha defended her erstwhile experience.

She said: "I've not danced for rather a fewer years, since Love Island my vocation is truthful different.

"It's specified a antithetic creation style, I whitethorn really not beryllium bully astatine it, similar ballet - I'm not bully astatine ballet.

"I'm trained successful commercialized thoroughfare benignant it's going to beryllium precise hard but I'm excited for a challenge."

Tasha has besides been defended by histrion and popular prima Alexandra Burke, who came runner-up connected Strictly successful 2017.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Alexandra said: "Tasha's not had Latin and Ballroom dancing. I got that antagonistic response, but I'd ne'er had Latin and Ballroom creation experience.

"So really fto her unrecorded and fto her unrecorded her champion life, due to the fact that she's having the astir astonishing clip astir likely.

"I deliberation it's ace important that this is erstwhile successful a beingness accidental for radical to learnt Latin and Ballroom astatine specified an older age."