15 October 2023 , 19:00
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Strictly Come Dancing has revealed the third star to leave the hit BBC One dance competition after a tough dance-off.
During Sunday's results show, Jody Cundy became the third contestant to leave as he faced Eddie Kadi in the dreaded dance-off. The two stars had to perform their routines again as Jody, 45, and pro partner Jowita Przystal performed their Salsa to Samba de Janeiro by Bellini while Eddie, 40, and his pro partner Karen Hauer performed their American Smooth to Sex Bomb by Tom Jones.
After both couples had danced a second time, the judges delivered their verdicts as Craig Revel Horwood chose to save Eddie and Karen. Craig said: "For improvement and musicality I would like to save Eddie and Karen." Motsi Mabuse also chose to save Eddie and Karen, saying: "For me it was a very clear decision, one couple was much, much stronger. I would love to save Eddie and Karen."
Jody Cundy became the third contestant to leave (BBC)It was three votes for Eddie and Karen as Anton Du Beke also chose to save them, explaining: "Well based on the dance off and the dance off only, I thought one couple danced very well and one couple had a bit of an off night, there were a couple of mistakes there so I would like to save Eddie and Karen." With three votes to Eddie and Karen, they had won the majority vote and head judge Shirley Ballas also said she would have decided to save the duo.
After his fate was revealed, Jody said: "You know what, when I signed up for this I thought what on earth am I signing up for and we did that first live show and I absolutely loved every second of it. And just being able to dance and do something I've never done before and get completely out of my comfort zone and with this amazing person.
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"This person's got so much energy, every morning like 9 O'clock we've got, start of training and she's like BAMMM, like this, she comes into the room like an absolute cannonball and she just doesn't stop the whole day. And she doesn't lose any faith, doesn't lose anything, motivates me on to do more and more. So I've had an absolute blast."
Jowita was then asked if she had any words for her partner, to which she sweetly said: "I cannot even describe how proud I am of you Jody, because from day one till now, it's enormous improvement. And I hope from now on, when you go out, when you hear the music, you're not going to hide anywhere.
"You're going to go on that dancefloor and you're going to give it all. And I hope, one day when you look back at all of this, you will say to yourself I'm proud of myself, because that will be my biggest achievement."