{"id":106230,"date":"2025-10-27T07:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/106230\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:11:15","slug":"jimmy-floyd-hasselbaink-becomes-fourth-celebrity-eliminated-from-strictly-come-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/106230\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink becomes fourth celebrity eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Chelsea striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink<\/a> has become the fourth celebrity to be eliminated from the 2025 series of Strictly Come Dancing<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The 53-year-old Dutchman and his professional partner Lauren Oakley were ousted from the competition on Sunday\u2019s results show (26 October), after finding themselves in a dance off against West End star Amber Davies<\/a> and her partner Nikita Kuzmin.<\/p>\n

As is mandatory, both couples performed their routines from Saturday\u2019s show again, with Hasselbaink and Oakley dancing an American Smooth to \u201cPurple Rain\u201d by Prince and Davies and Kuzmin dancing the Cha Cha Cha to \u201cBreak Free\u201d by Ariana Grande.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, all the judges sided with Davies and Kuzmin, including Anton Du Beke<\/a> \u2013 who was the judge with this week\u2019s casting vote. This secured their place in the Halloween special next weekend.<\/p>\n

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Jimmy and Lauren faced Amber and Nikita in this week’s dance off (BBC)<\/p>\n

When asked by host Tess Daly about his time on the show, Hasselbaink said: \u201cI have absolutely loved my experience. I can only say thank you very much for letting me have this experience and to my daughters for pushing me to come here and do this. I never expected that I would enjoy it this much.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ex-footballer went on to thank all the crew behind the scenes, including the wardrobe people, hairdressers and make-up artists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis experience is going to live with me forever,\u201d Hasselbaink continued. \u201cMost importantly, [to Lauren] this girl is just absolutely incredible. She has been absolutely amazing with me. You are a diamond.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if she has enjoyed teaching Hasselbaink, Oakley said: \u201cOh, I enjoyed it so much and I am absolutely gutted that it\u2019s come to an end. We\u2019ve had so many laughs. We have had the best time and I am so proud of how far he has come.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it proves that anyone can be a dancer if you put your mind to it,\u201d she added. \u201cHe\u2019s a footballer! And he just danced like that. We\u2019ve had the best time and I\u2019m just so proud and I feel honoured to have been able to teach you. You\u2019ve been an amazing student.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hasselbaink\u2019s early departure from Strictly will come as a shock to viewers, as the former Netherlands international achieved a personal best score of 30 on Saturday\u2019s episode and hadn\u2019t appeared in the bottom two during the first weeks of the competition.<\/p>\n

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Hasselbaink dances to \u2018Purple Rain\u2019 by Prince during Icons Week (BBC)<\/p>\n

Summing up his experiences on the show, Hasselbaink said: \u201cThe only thing you can do is dance as best as you can and then it\u2019s up to the public. I was actually quite happy to dance again because I wanted to do better than my previous one. So listen, I have had a blast. From the people up there [pointing to the other couples], to the judges \u2013 thank you very much for your comments.\u201d <\/p>\n

Hasselbaink follows in the footsteps of rugby player Chris Robshaw, TV star Ross King and divisive internet personality Thomas Skinner<\/a> as the first celebrities eliminated from the 2025 series.<\/p>\n

The remaining 10 couples will return to the ballroom for next week\u2019s Halloween special, on Saturday 1 November at 6.35pm, with the results show on Sunday 2 November at 7.15pm. <\/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":35569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-106230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}