Strictly Come Dancing’s Chizzy Akudolua sobs as she becomes the first star booted off the show

HOLBY City star Chizzy Akudolu has become the first contestant to get the boot in the year's Strictly Come Dancing.

The bubbly actress failed to gain enough votes from the public and had to compete against funnyman Brian Conley in the first dance off of the series.

Chizzy and her partner Pasha earned 16/40 for their foxtrot last night and the duo performed the dance again in a failed attempt to convince the judges to keep them in the show.

While Brian managed to get the chance to dance another day after doing enough to impress the judges with his Cha Cha.

Hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman delivered the news that Chizzy and Brian had received the lowest votes from the public and would have to battle it out to stay on the show.

Chizzy was upbeat as she said: "It's good. It's another chance for us to get the technique in."

She told Claudia: "It's hard to go up against Brian.  It would have been hard to go up against anyone really."

After the couples performed, the judges cast their deciding votes.

Craig Revel Horwood cast his vote saying: "The person I love watching move on the dance floor is Chizzy."

While Darcy Bussell said: "The couple I would like to dave for having more dance content is Brian and Amy."

Bruno Tonioli voted: "One couple stood out because the timing and delivery was better. That was Brian and Amy."

And head judge Shirley Ballas also chose to save Brian and Amy as she explained: "Both of them brought nice performances. The person who had more musicality was Brian."

When Chizzy performed the dance on Saturday's show head judge Shirley called the dance "a little bit more lumpy for my taste".

Craig Revel Horwood agreed and said there should've been "more foxtrot and less musical theatre" but gave her credit for having "an amazing sense of musicality."

Chizzy took the criticism on the chin and declared: "I'm more a Beetle girl, I'm not a Rolls Royce."

Her score meant her combined total over two weeks is 37/80.

After the performance she admitted backstage: "The scores were not so great but I had fun so that's what counts."

Viewers were gutted to see Chizzy go as one wrote: "Heartbroken for @chizzyakudolu 💃🏻 completely wrong decision in every way 😭 #Strictly #SCD."

Another tweeted: "Gutted for Chizzy and Pasha. Thought their dance was better #Strictly."
One fan stated: "Whaaaat I can't believe @chizzyakudolu and @PashaKovalev have gone 😭😭😭😭 #strictly."

While another wrote: "omg so gutted chizzy went home #Strictly."

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