Strictly Come Dancing has lost its first female dancer, and fans of watching sequined pensioners bossing tiny European men around are bound to be disappointed – first out was Stephanie Beacham.
If you’ve ever been to a friend’s family party and their old auntie has got drunk, taken a knock to the head and decided to try and seduce all the young men by cornering them and licking her wrists like a cat, then you already know what’s Stephanie Beacham was like on Strictly Come Dancing. Although Stephanie’s Quickstep to Suddenly I See had the Strictly Come Dancing judges telling her “It was great to see real Hollywood glamour,” it still wasn’t enough to convince the voters. Maybe it’s because Stephanie Beacham looks as if she stinks to high heaven of HRT patches, who knows?
But now that Stephanie Beacham is out of Strictly Come Dancing, who’ll win? Here are the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for Letitia Dean and Kate Garraway, with help from Paddy Power…
Letitia Dean – She’ll deny it forever, but Strictly Come Dancing is Letitia Dean’s last chance to prove that she’s capable of doing something other than pouting behind a bar before EastEnders invariably lures her back. And, faced with competition from some of the most aggressively sexual women Strictly Come Dancing has ever seen – seriously, two thirds of them are like Xena Warrior Princess‘ slutty cousins – Letitia Dean decided to make her Rumba to How Deep Is Your Love into a demonstration of classy restraint. Did it work? Did it bollocks – “For me this was a Rumba with the handbrake on. You did everything but it was restrained,” the Strictly Come Dancing judges told her. Chances are that means next week Letitia will wriggle and vamp like an Albanian prostitute instead. God help us all. SCORE – 23; Current Strictly Come Dancing betting odds – 33/1
Kate Garraway – Poor old Kate Garraway. Not only is she lumped with the faint praise of being GMTV‘s sexy one – even though, when the main competition is Fiona Phillips and the showbiz android, a goat in a tutu would stand a decent enough chance of being GMTV‘s sexy one – but now she gets to be Strictly Come Dancing‘s hobbled one, too. Fighting a twisted ankle or a poorly ligament or a broken leg or something, Kate Garraway’s Strictly Come Dancing Quickstep to Love Machine was so poor that the only real surprise is that the Strictly Come Dancing judges didn’t cover her with a blanket and shoot her with a shotgun immediately afterwards. Instead, they told her “It was as heavy as lead, it was very heavy on the turns… it was very flat-footed.” Still, never count out the voting power of the sexually-frustrated married man, that’s our advice. SCORE – 15; Current Strictly Come Dancing – 50/1
Tomorrow: Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for Alesha Dixon and Penny Lancaster. But if that’s too long to wait – or you feel like making more money than you know what to do with – head right over to the Paddy Power Strictly Come Dancing betting odds page to see the latest, and best, betting odds.