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Strictly Come Dancing announces eighth celebrity elimination

Strictly Come Dancing has eliminated another couple after Blackpool Week’s big episode.

Blackpool, the home of ballroom dancing and one of Strictly’s biggest themed weeks, has not hosted the show for three years due to the pandemic, so this week the dancers were making up for lost time.

After the sequins settled after Saturday’s big show, two couples were announced to be in the final two on tonight’s (November 20) episode.

Guy LevyBBC

Despite the incredible performances, Tyler West and his dance partner Diane Buswell and Molly Rainford and her dance partner Carlos Gu found themselves back on the dance floor for the dreaded dance.

After performing again, Tyler and Dianne were eliminated.

Tyler was full of praise for the show and his partner, declaring that Strictly had changed his life.

“When you watch the show at home, you wonder what it must be like to dance in it, that’s it, and more than that, it changed my life,” he told co-host Tess Daly. “To think that I was some shy kid who never talked to anyone, never danced in front of millions, I can’t put it into words.

Guy LevyBBC

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“It’s my mum’s favorite show, I bought it in Blackpool, my grandma, bless her, always looked after me on this trip.”

He said the show had given him more confidence and a “newfound family” with the Strictly dancers, judges and backstage team, and said his dance partner Diane had “changed my life”.

He explained: “But this girl here, I’ve been blessed with the best, she’s what Strictly is about and she’s changed my life, I’ve no doubt she’ll be in my life forever.”

Strictly Come Dancing airs Saturdays and Sundays on BBC One, while spin-off show Strictly: It Takes Two airs weekly on BBC Two. Both shows are also streamed on BBC iPlayer.

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