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Kathryn Williams

Strictly Come Dancing's Tom Fletcher and Amy Dowden are viewers' favourites to win, according to leaked figures

Caerphilly's Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden and her celeb partner, McFly's Tom Fletcher, are currently the favourites to win the BBC series, according to leaked recent voting figures.

The figures, obtained by Mail on Sunday, show four of the couples won 62% of the public support, on the weekend of October 23.

Read more: Strictly Come Dancing's Rose and Gio get highest score of series and special message from Ed Sheeran

McFly star Tom and Amy were the most popular with the audiences that week, when they performed a sizzling salsa, with 19.1% of the vote.

Judges' scores put them in fifth place on the leader board with 34 points, too, that week, which saw rugby player Ugo Monye lose the dance-off.

EastEnders star Rose Ayling-Ellis and her dance partner Giovanni Pernice, who wowed with a Viennese Waltz, complete with a whole introduction in sign language, garnered 18.2% of the public vote. Rose is Strictly's first deaf contestant and has taken the competition by storm, with Gio learning sign language and incorporating it into their dances.

This Halloween weekend they became the first couple of the series to score a perfect 40 with their tango to Ed Sheeran's Shivers.

And in third place, for the week of October 23, swimmer Adam Peaty and his partner Katya Jones, achieved 16.4% after the Olympian won praise for his hip action to George Michael's Faith.

Finally, the other couple winning over viewers were John Whaite and Johannes Radebe, the first same-sex male pairing who topped the leaderboard with 38 points for their Charleston to Milord by Edith Piaf. Nine per cent of the audience voted for their routine.

The viewers' voting figures are combined with the judges' scores and the bottom two take part in Sunday night's dance-off.

A Strictly spokesperson has said that they don't release voting figures as the BBC don't want to influence the vote in any way, adding that the leaked percentages are "pure speculation".

After the Halloween performances on October 30, comedian and presenter Judi Love was voted off the show just days after returning to training due to coronavirus.

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