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| Actor Tom Chambers has won BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing, beating former S Club Seven star Rachel Stevens in a public vote. | Actor Tom Chambers has won BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing, beating former S Club Seven star Rachel Stevens in a public vote. |
| Both performed five dances with their professional partners, but Chambers triumphed with Camilla Dallerup. | |
| Chambers, who married during the series, said: "The first person I want to thank is my wife. I can't wait to be a newlywed." | |
| Lisa Snowdon was eliminated after the first round, despite getting top marks. | |
| 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, with the winner decided by public vote alone. | |
| Chambers heaped praise on his partner Dallerup. He said: "Tonight is about you because you absolutely deserve this more than anyone." | |
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| Stevens, who was runner-up, said she had "adored" dancing with her partner Vincent Simone. | |
| 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 the judges' score of 73 for Chambers resulted in one point. | |
| 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 five for Chambers. | |
| Those figures were then converted into three points each for the first two and one for Chambers before telephone lines were opened to the public vote. | |
| Snowdon was eliminated after the first round. She 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". |