The Scottish presenter and his professional partner, Jowita Przystal, exited the competition after a tense dance-off against Eastenders <\/a>actor Balvinder Sopal and Julian Caillon<\/a> during Sunday night\u2019s (12 October) results show. <\/p>\n Both couples performed their Movie Week routines from Saturday (11 October)<\/a> once more, with King and Przystal dancing the Paso Doble to the theme tune from Thunderbirds Are Go. Sopal and Caillon danced a foxtrot to \u201cThe Way You Look Tonight\u201d from the film Swing Time. <\/p>\n Judges Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, and Anton Du Beke all voted to save Balvinder and Caillon. Head judge Shirley Ballas<\/a> said that she would have made the same decision. <\/p>\n Speaking about his time on the programme, King said: \u201cI have loved every single minute of it. I would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported us, all the people who voted \u2013 they\u2019ve been amazing.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to thank everyone here in this room, backstage, the judges, the crew \u2013 every single person here has made me so, so welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking about Przystal, he said: \u201cI want to thank a very special lady who has been with me through it all and has been absolutely everything: she\u2019s been a mentor, teacher, carer. <\/p>\n \u201cI could not have wished for a better partner, and I could not have wished to be on a better show. Thank you judges for all your remarks.\u201d<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Ross King and Jowita Przystal (BBC)<\/p>\n Przystal thanked King for his work and time during rehearsals, adding: \u201cI hope I\u2019m going to be a little part in your life forever.\u201d<\/p>\n King\u2019s elimination does not come as a huge surprise given that he was awarded the lowest score on Saturday\u2019s live show, earning just 19 points. (You can find the week three leaderboard in full here<\/a>.) Du Beke, however, did praise the presenter as \u201cthe most improved\u201d contestant this week. <\/p>\n Ballas acknowledged King\u2019s dedication to the performance, stating: \u201cYou gave 1,000 per cent of yourself\u2026 this week you can go home and be very proud of what you\u2019ve achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Strictly\u2019s Ross King breaks down in tears following emotional Loch Lomond trip (BBC)<\/p>\n Sunday\u2019s results show also featured a group routine from the Strictly professionals in tribute to this year\u2019s Minecraft movie as well as a performance of the song \u201cReflection\u201d from the Disney film Mulan by Chinese pianist Lang Lang. He was accompanied by professional dancers Nancy Xu and Kai Widdrington. <\/p>\n As was announced earlier this week, Neighbours actor Stefan Dennis did not perform on Saturday due to illness. In line with the show\u2019s rules, he and Dianne Buswell<\/a> will automatically go through to the next stage of the competition. <\/p>\n Writing on Instagram, Dennis said that he was \u201cso sorry\u201d to miss the episode but expected to be back next week with a \u201crip roaring dance\u201d. Buswell, meanwhile, addressed claims that she was the real reason<\/a> behind Dennis\u2019s absence. <\/p>\n The remaining 13 couples will return to the Strictly dancefloor next week on Saturday (18 October) at 6.30pm on BBC<\/a> One and BBC<\/a> iPlayer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-209494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ross](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/538178.jpg\")
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