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Who left Strictly Come Dancing? Second celebrity cries as they're eliminated

Ross King has become the latest celebrity to be eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing . The 63-year-old Lorraine presenter and his dance partner Jowita Pryzstal f ound themselves in the dance-off during tonight's results show, following their Paso Doble performance to the Thunderbirds Are Go theme tune. Despite a second attempt at their routine, the judges opted to save Balvinder Sopal and Julian Caillon after their Foxtrot to Swing Time's The Way You Look Tonight. Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke and head judge Shirley Ballas - who held the deciding vote if needed - all chose to save EastEnders actress Balvinder and Julian, resulting in Ross and Jowita's departure. When Tess Daly asked about their experience on the show, an emotional Ross King said: "I have loved every single minute of it," reports Glasgow Live . "I would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported us, all the people who voted – they've been amazing. I want to thank everyone here in this room, backstage, the judges, the crew – every single person here has made me so, so welcome. "And, I want to thank a very special lady who has been with me through it all and has been absolutely everything: she's been a mentor, teacher, carer." As Jowita chimed in with "barista", Ross went on: "I could not have wished for a better partner, and I could not have wished to be on a better show. Thank you judges for all your remarks." Tess then turned to Jowita and said "Jowita, you called Ross 'Your King,'" to which Jowita replied: "And I still stand by it! Thank you so much for all of your work. For everything you have done during rehearsals. "We laugh a lot – but we also cried! Thank you so much, and I hope I'm going to be a little part in your life forever." Ross previously spoke about how difficult he'd found training, saying: "We've all chatted to people that have done the show and they've said it's hard, I don't think we really realised how hard it is... It really is eight hours [of training] a day. "But to get the opportunity to dance with the best dancers in the world, to have them coach you and prep you, there's amazing medical staff behind the scenes, to have that team... "And at the stage of my career, to be offered something like this, to learn a brand new skill and a skill I could take forward - I'd love to go back and do musicals again and to go in with a bit of dance knowledge." Sunday's results show also featured a routine from Strictly's Professional Dancers in tribute to the Minecraft movie, plus Nancy Xu and Kai Widdrington dancing to a performance from Lang Lang of Reflection from the film Mulan. Thomas Skinner and Amy Dowden were the first pair to have been voted out last week, and the remaining 13 couples will take to the dancefloor next week with Stefan Dennis and Dianne Buswell hoping to make a comeback after missing last night's show due to illness. Strictly Come Dancing returns on Saturday 18 October at 6:30pm, with the results show on Sunday 19 October at 7:15pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Both episodes from this weekend are available to watch on BBC iPlayer.

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Who left Strictly Come Dancing? Second celebrity cries as they're eliminated
Ross King has become the latest celebrity to be eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing . The 63-year-old Lorraine presenter and his dance partner Jowita Pryzstal f ound themselves in the dance-off during tonight's results show, following their Paso Doble performance to the Thunderbirds Are Go theme tune. Despite a second attempt at their routine, the judges opted to save Balvinder Sopal and Julian Caillon after their Foxtrot to Swing Time's The Way You Look Tonight. Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke and head judge Shirley Ballas - who held the deciding vote if needed - all chose to save EastEnders actress Balvinder and Julian, resulting in Ross and Jowita's departure. When Tess Daly asked about their experience on the show, an emotional Ross King said: "I have loved every single minute of it," reports Glasgow Live . "I would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported us, all the people who voted – they've been amazing. I want to thank everyone here in this room, backstage, the judges, the crew – every single person here has made me so, so welcome. "And, I want to thank a very special lady who has been with me through it all and has been absolutely everything: she's been a mentor, teacher, carer." As Jowita chimed in with "barista", Ross went on: "I could not have wished for a better partner, and I could not have wished to be on a better show. Thank you judges for all your remarks." Tess then turned to Jowita and said "Jowita, you called Ross 'Your King,'" to which Jowita replied: "And I still stand by it! Thank you so much for all of your work. For everything you have done during rehearsals. "We laugh a lot – but we also cried! Thank you so much, and I hope I'm going to be a little part in your life forever." Ross previously spoke about how difficult he'd found training, saying: "We've all chatted to people that have done the show and they've said it's hard, I don't think we really realised how hard it is... It really is eight hours [of training] a day. "But to get the opportunity to dance with the best dancers in the world, to have them coach you and prep you, there's amazing medical staff behind the scenes, to have that team... "And at the stage of my career, to be offered something like this, to learn a brand new skill and a skill I could take forward - I'd love to go back and do musicals again and to go in with a bit of dance knowledge." Sunday's results show also featured a routine from Strictly's Professional Dancers in tribute to the Minecraft movie, plus Nancy Xu and Kai Widdrington dancing to a performance from Lang Lang of Reflection from the film Mulan. Thomas Skinner and Amy Dowden were the first pair to have been voted out last week, and the remaining 13 couples will take to the dancefloor next week with Stefan Dennis and Dianne Buswell hoping to make a comeback after missing last night's show due to illness. Strictly Come Dancing returns on Saturday 18 October at 6:30pm, with the results show on Sunday 19 October at 7:15pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Both episodes from this weekend are available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
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