Politician loses the vote in Strictly dance-off

The politician left Strictly Come Dancing 2016 in Sunday evening’s latest results after 10 weeks.

“Ed Balls, you are more likely like lottery balls, you never know what’s going to come out next”.

Despite channeling his inner red carpet glow, Balls is the favourite to leave this week’s show according to bookies Coral.

Mac and Mabuse had the highest score from the judges, with four 10s for their samba.

Ore said: “On the first day, Greg and I discovered we shared the same birthday, and since then we’ve been really close”.

Mr Balls, former Morley and Outwood MP, said he had gone out on a high and been on a journey of self-discovery.

The former MP, 49, is now negotiating his place in the live shows that will be staged across the country in January.

The bookmaker’s spokesman, Rupert Adams, said: “Before the BBC announced the Cha Cha Challenge, just 12 per cent of bets were for Ed Balls to get the boot this weekend”.

He added: “But the reality is … on any fair and objective standard, every week he’s come out and tried his hardest and improved”.

“I scheduled lots of press appointments following the release of my book this year for mid-November because I didn’t think we would get this far in the competition. I’ve learned so much”.

He said he had a “wonderful time” on the show. It was the right thing maybe for him to do.

Okay, so there are plenty of better dancers in the competition, but for anyone who doesn’t get how an audience vote works, here it is boiled down to the basics.

If he and partner Katya Jones reach next week’s quarter-final, he will be the show’s most successful politician.

However, the training didn’t appear to do so much when Ed disappointingly found himself at the bottom of the leaderboard once again after scoring just 23 points, the same as last week. “There’s no plot. It’s up to the public”.

Tonioli likened the dance to a “pagan mating ritual” and Revel-Horwood said Danny’s hip movements were the best they had ever had from a male celebrity.

Head judge Len Goodman said: “I agree with my colleagues”. “Is he through to the next week or is he off the show?”

“We don’t feel like stopping”, the former MP told the BBC.