BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Ellie Leach seen cosying up to co-star that's not Vito Coppola after 'broke' admission
23.01.2024 - 12:21
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Ellie Leach has been seen cosying up to one of her Strictly Come Dancing co-stars as they hit the road. The BBC One dance contest winner has been reunited with her dance partner Vito Coppola as a number of stars of the 2023 series tour the country in the show's live tour.
Ellie, 22, and Vito, 31, are part of the line-up for this year's Strictly live tour - which comes to Manchester's AO Arena in early February - alongside fellow finalists Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin and Bobby Brazier and Dianne Buswell.
They are also joined by Angela Scanlon, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Angela Rippon and Annabel Croft as well as Strictly's cast of talented professional dancers, the tour's host Janette Manrara and judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood and Anton Du Beke.
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In a break from tour life, which has left Birmingham and headed to Sheffield, Ellie returned home to Greater Manchester as she and Vito appeared on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday morning (January 23) and while on the programme, Ellie revealed her father had to fix her glitterball trophy in his shed after it broke in her luggage.
The former Coronation Street star, 22, became the competition’s youngest winner when she beat Layton and Nikita and Bobby and Dianne in the live final of the 2023 series in December alongside Vito. However, the highly coveted glitterball trophy, which is presented to the winner, took a bit of a battering while on a train journey.
Asked if it was true she had broken the prize, Ellie told BBC Breakfast: "Ummm maybe, but it’s all fixed now. My dad took it to his shed