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Snowdon knocked out of Strictly | |
(about 23 hours later) | |
Lisa Snowdon has been eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing in the grand final on BBC One. | |
It leaves Tom Chambers and Rachel Stevens to battle it out for this year's title. | |
Stevens, Snowdon and Chambers all made it through to the final, thanks to a controversial scoring anomaly on last week's show. | |
Stevens and Snowdon were in the top two positions on judges scores alone following the first round. | |
But the public chose to save Chambers and Stevens to dance for the title, to be decided by public vote alone. | |
Snowdon said: "It has been amazing. I know it's a cliche but I already feel like a winner. I've had a great time - it's been brilliant." | |
Her dance partner, Brendan Cole, paid tribute to the model, describing her as "fantastic" and a "hard worker". | |
The three celebrities each performed two dances in the first part of the final - ballroom and Latin - in a bid to win over the judges and the public. | |
Snowdon was awarded the maximum 80 points by the judges, ending the first show of the two-part final with three points. | |
Stevens was in second place with 79 out of 80 from the judges, equating to two points, while Chambers' judges score of 73 resulted in one point. | |
Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno Tonioli look ahead to the final | Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno Tonioli look ahead to the final |
The combined total of last week's and this week's results left Snowdon and Stevens at the top of the leaderboard with a score of seven, followed by Chambers' five. | |
Those figures were then converted into three points each for the women and one for Chambers before telephone lines were opened to the public vote. | |
Strictly Come Dancing presenters Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly opened the grand final by apologising to viewers for the voting problems which marred last week's show. | |
The programme sparked controversy after Chambers was saved from the semi-final dance-off by a last-minute decision to let all three remaining couples go through to the final. | |
The decision followed a tie between Stevens and Snowdon, who were awarded exactly the same amount of points by the judges, meaning the public vote could not save Chambers. | |
Daly told viewers: "We are sorry we didn't realise this earlier but when we did we took the fairest decision in the circumstances to put all three couples through to the final." | |
Rehearsal time | |
All of this years contestants returned to perform during the grand final, apart from model Jodie Kidd who was sick. It also featured a performance by singer Duffy. | |
All five previous winners of Strictly Come Dancing - Natasha Kaplinsky, Jill Halfpenny, Darren Gough, Mark Ramprakash and Alesha Dixon - also appeared, with all but Kaplinsky performing a group routine to a version of Robbie Williams' Let Me Entertain You. | |
The three finalists have put in a total of 820 hours' training between them, with former S Club 7 singer Stevens racking up the most time in the rehearsal studio - 304 hours. | |
"I am absolutely over the moon to be in the final - I don't think it's even sunk in," said the star, whose waist measurement has shrunk by 8cm over the last three months. | |
Former Holby City actor Chambers - who has postponed his honeymoon until after the final - said he wanted to win for the sake of his dance partner, Camilla Dallerup. | Former Holby City actor Chambers - who has postponed his honeymoon until after the final - said he wanted to win for the sake of his dance partner, Camilla Dallerup. |
"It would mean granting Camilla her dream. She's been working for this for six years and she's been in the semi-final twice," he said. | "It would mean granting Camilla her dream. She's been working for this for six years and she's been in the semi-final twice," he said. |
Snowdon said she was excited by the final, adding she planned to "enjoy every last moment". | |
Rachel (left), Tom (middle) and Lisa (right) started training in the summer | |
The problems encountered on last Saturday's show occurred when there was a tie between Snowdon and Stevens following the judges' scoring. | The problems encountered on last Saturday's show occurred when there was a tie between Snowdon and Stevens following the judges' scoring. |
However, the problem was not realised until after voting had started. Producers took the decision to scrap the voting and put all three contestants into the final. | However, the problem was not realised until after voting had started. Producers took the decision to scrap the voting and put all three contestants into the final. |
Votes cast last week were carried forward to the final - but viewers who want a refund can obtain one via the show's official website. | |
After explaining what happened last week, Forsyth and Daly also revealed for the first time the results of the semi-final after the judges scores were combined with the viewers' votes. | |
Stevens and her partner, Vincent Simone, were at the top with five points, followed by Chambers and Dallerup and model Snowdon and Brendan Cole with four points. | |
Viewers were told these points would be combined with the judges scores from tonight's dances and converted into a final leader board. | |
How to claim a refund | How to claim a refund |
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