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Heather and her American Boy have their last tango
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Singer Heather Small tonight became the eighth celebrity to be voted off
±«Óãtv One's Strictly Come Dancing.
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After performing the tango, the combination of the viewer
votes and judges' scores left Heather and her partner Brian
Fortuna in the bottom two with Rachel Stevens and Vincent
Simone.
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Both couples had to perform a second time for the
judges' deciding vote.
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Of Heather and Brian's dance the judges said –
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Arlene Phillips: "Heather, you have got stronger and stronger week by
week and, yes, you were better. Although you still do not have
that sharp staccato passion, drama and drive that the tango
needs." Score: 7.
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Len Goodman: "Tango is an actor's dance, and I saw drama and passion.
But I would like you to tuck your hips under. You need to
keep body contact a little bit more, but I thought it was a
very good job, well done." Score: 7.
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Bruno Tonioli: "Great improvement. You have to be careful though
because when you're trying so hard sometimes your shoulders
raise up and you stop performing. Combine everything and then
you'll get higher scores."
Score: 7.
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Craig Revel Horwood: "It was a marked improvement, certainly on last week.
The dance suits you. Heads could have been sharper. I thought
there could have been a little more attack. When you pushed
you did it well but your release went limp. You have to
maintain that essence of the dance. You're just a little bit
ahead on the step that gets you into promenade." Score: 6.
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The judges gave them a total of 27 out of 40 for their
performance.
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After the dance-off, Rachel and Vincent were saved by Craig,
Arlene and Bruno who all voted for them to stay in the
competition, leaving head judge Len to comment on the couples
rather than vote.
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Len said: "I did agree with the other
judges, but that last tango was the best I've seen Heather
dance. Well done."
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After Heather and Brian's elimination, Heather said: "I
enjoyed it, it's been a ball. I feel like a winner because
I've enjoyed it so much and I've met such a great young man
in Brian."
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Brian added: "I've felt very welcome, it's been a
pleasure living in England and the best part has been meeting
Heather."
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The Sunday results saw a live performance from Beyonce
Knowles.
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Notes to Editors
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Don't forget you can get all the up-to-date gossip on the sister
show It Takes Two, weekdays at 6.30pm on ±«Óãtv Two, and also via
bbc.co.uk/strictlycomedancing.
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