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Home > Entertainment > Strictly Come Dancing 2011 Results: Edwina Currie and Vincent Simone voted off! October 10th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Edwina Currie was the first celebrity to be voted off ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ last night. The former MP had hoped she would have the Anne Widdecombe appeal, what with her political past and lack of dance skills but it wasn’t to be and after a very disappointing foxtrot with her professional partner Vincent Simone, the 64 year old was unanimously voted off the BBC series. After the results of the public vote revealed that Audley Harrison and Natalie Lowe joined Edwina and Vincent in the bottom two, the judging panel chose to send John Major’s ex home. However Currie claimed that she wasn’t sad to come to the end of her dancing journey, as all the rehearsing had left her so exhausted, that she’d banned sex with husband John for the duration of her run. She told The Sun: “I always feel sexy. I don’t have a problem with that. The pr...

Home > Drama > Patsy Kensit is taking a break after Strictly Come Dancing and Holby City March 28th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Patsy Kensit “really appreciated” her job as an actress following her stint on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. The 43-year-old former ‘Holby City’ star – who finished in seventh place alongside professional dancer Robin Windsor in last year’s series of the BBC One show – admitted while appearing the programme lifted her “emotionally”, she found memorising complicated routines challenging. She said: “It sounds like such a cliché, but dancing really does lift you emotionally. Also, I’d been going to work for the past 38 years and taking it for granted that I can memorise a script immediately. “I’ve got a photographic memory; I’ve been using that muscle in my brain forever. I can cry on cue. I can learn pages of dialogue, but when it comes to doing a dance routine my mind could go blank at any second. It made me really appreciate my job.” Patsy revealed ...

December 19th, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. 1 Comment Kara Tointon has won ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. The former ‘EastEnders’ actress and her dancing partner Atrem Chigvintsev – who are rumoured to be a couple off the show – beat Matt Baker and Pamela Stephenson to win the coveted prize, with the 28-year-old beauty saying it was “special”. She said: “Winning this is the most special thing I have ever achieved.” Turning to Artem, she added: “I want to thank this man – he’s been wonderful. I have made the most fantastic friend for life and it has been the most special experience of my life.” Kara – who was suffering from a wrist injury on the final – wowed the judges with four performances including a show dance, an American Smooth and a Waltz. Judge Alesha Dixon was quick to praise Kara and Artem’s Waltz, saying the pair were proof of what hard work can lead to. She said: “A very understated performance full of romance. You are such a great example of what hard work and determination can achiev...