Strictly Come Dancing's Ellie Leach becomes youngest winner as she's crowned champion with Vito Coppola
16.12.2023 - 21:41
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Strictly Come Dancing crowned Ellie Leach as the winner of this year's competition after fighting off competition from Layton Williams and Bobby Braier. As the viewers voted for their favourite dancers, the scores showed Layton and Nikita at the top of the leaderboard with a total of 119. They were closely followed by Bobby and Dianne who scored 117 while Ellie and Vito had a score of 115.
Of course, the judges' scores were just used as guidance and it was solely up to the public to decide who would be crowned winner. Speaking after it was announced, Ellie told hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly: "I actually genuinely cannot believe this." Her pro partner Vito was emotional as she laughed: "This is the first time I've seen him cry. For once, you're crying more than me.
This is for you!" But Vito told her: "Not this is for you," as he wiped away the tears.
In the final, Ellie was praised by Craig Revel Horwood for taking a risk with her Show Dance, after she apologised to Vito for messing up a lift. He told her: "It's a terrible shame with the last lift because really that whole dance routine was just flawless up until that moment. "That's the sort of beauty of live television, I think, and proving that taking a risk can or can't work out for you." Ahead of the result being confirmed, Ellie was the favourite to win with the shortest odds in history to take home the trophy.
The bookies revealed Layton and Bobby had both seen their odds of winning the Glitterball Trophy take another hit, as Ellie's odds were slashed to just 1/12 - setting a new record for the most likely winner in Strictly history. Layton was 9/1 in the betting, while Bobby was the rank outsider to go all the way at 18/1. Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said:
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