Ellie Leach and Vito Coppola have been crowned the winners of Strictly Come Dancing 2023. Fans flocked to social media in their droves to have their say as the results were revealed by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman on Saturday night (December 16) following a spectacular grand final.
BBC Strictly Come Dancing fans ask 'is it a rule?' as they demand 'ban' ahead of Musicals week
26.11.2023 - 22:13 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Strictly Come Dancing fans want a 'ban' to be put in place ahead of Musicals week as they made the same complaint about one of the couple's dances.
During Sunday night's results show, which saw Angela Scanlon become the latest celebrity to be eliminated from the competition, viewers found out that Bobby Brazier and Dianne Buswell would be doing a salsa routine to the song Time of My Life from the musical Dirty Dancing next week.
And despite it undoubtedly being an iconic hit, it seems Strictly fans are bored to death of the song as many took to social media to question why it was being used again. Ashley Roberts and Pasha Kovalev did their salsa to the song in the 2018 series, while Louis Smith and Flavia Cacace also did one during the 2012 final.
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Taking to X, formerly Twitter, one viewer said: "A salsa? To Time Of My Life? In musicals week? Groundbreaking." Another commented: "So many gorgeous musicals and we get Dirty Dancing again."
A third wrote: "How has the Dirty Dancing salsa come around AGAIN?" and a fourth asked: "Every year someone dances to Time Of My Life, is it a rule at the Strictly studios that is must be used???" One fan even requested that the show put a 'ban' on doing the classic dirty dancing lift. "Please can they put an indefinite ban on doing the lift from Dirty Dancing," they asked.
Some also suggested the song wasn't suitable for the Musicals theme and should instead have been used during Movie week. "Time Of My Life is NOT a musicals song, it’s a song from a movie. So that should be in movie week. And I am
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