Gone appetit! Chef Tilly’s Strictly exit
TILLY Ramsay insists she has a “best friend for life” in Nikita Kuzmin as the pair crashed out of Strictly Come Dancing.
The TV chef became the ninth celebrity to
leave the BBC show, despite cooking up a storm on the dancefloor with professional partner Nikita.
Dad Gordon Ramsay was in the audience to see his daughter sent home, having been overcome with emotion during her samba on Saturday night.
The Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch presnter, 20, lost out to CBBC’s Rhys Stephenson in the dance-off, when she again performed to Levitating by Dua Lipa. Rhys and partner Nancy Xu performed their waltz to You Light Up My
Life by Whitney Houston.
But Tilly, who was at the bottom of the leaderboard on Saturday night’s show, was given the boot by the judging panel.
Despite Nikita, 23, whipping off his shirt during the dance-off, judges Craig Revel Horwood, Anton Du Beke and guest judge Cynthia Erivo, who was filling in for Motsi Mabuse, all opted to save Rhys.
Craig called the performance “flashy and semi-naked” in a nod to Nikita’s torso.
Tilly said: “I’d just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has made this an amazing, positive journey for me. “From everyone here to backstage, wardrobe, make-up and camera crew. It’s just been the most extraordinary time. I found out something about myself that I didn’t know I could do, I didn’t know I could dance and have fun like this.
“A huge thank you to Nikita, who has guided me out of my shell and has just made this the most amazing experience. I really meant it when I said I made a best friend for life. You’ve just been incredible.”
Celebrity baker John Whaite and Johannes Radebe finished top of the leaderboard.