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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Katie Fitzpatrick

Strictly Come Dancing fans couldn't believe last night's surprising result

Strictly Come Dancing fans have slammed the outcome of tonight's results show as 'crazy' after show favourite Karim Zeroual and Amy Dowden ended up in the bottom two with Saffron Barker and AJ Pritchard.

CBBC star Karim has been leading the charge to win the 2019 series with former Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher so it was surprising to see him in dance-off danger.

Karim and Amy performed their contemporary dance to Drops Of Jupiter by With Confidence to remain in the competition and Saffron and AJ performed their samba to Walking On Sunshine by Take Me To Rio Collective again.

All four judges chose to save Karim and Amy, sending YouTuber Saffron home.

"Can’t believe the results," said one viewer about the dance-off.

Karim Zeroual and Amy Dowden performing on Strictly (Guy Levy)

"Can’t believe Karim was in the dance off," said another fan on Twitter.

"Seems crazy that Karim was in the DO," said another.

And another fan tweeted: "I had a feeling Saffron would be in trouble this week, but I'm SO sad to see Karim in the dance off!!"

The result is decided by the scores from the judges in the live show and the public vote which are combined 50-50.

Then the two couples with the lowest number of points from a combination of judges’ scores and public vote go into a dance-off.

Saffron was sent home (Guy Levy)

After they both perform their dance again, the judges decide which couple stays in the BBC dance contest.

If there is a tie head judge Shirley Ballas has the final casting vote.

When asked by Tess about her time on the show, Saffron said: “I’ve had the absolute time of my life and it’s all down to him.

"It’s been amazing. I’d like to thank AJ so much, when I look at what I was like on week one I was so embarrassed and shy.

"He’s really taken me out of my shell. Thank you so much for everything.”

When asked about Saffron, AJ said: “Every single week you’ve approached it with a positive mental attitude and you’ve inspired so many."

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