Strictly’s Tasha adds fuel to ‘fix’ claims as she breaks show record with ‘professional’ performance
Strictly Come Dancing’s Tasha Ghouri may have just added fuel to the ‘fix’ claims as she broke show record.
The former Love Island reality star wowed the judges with her Viennese waltz on week two of the competition.
The former ITV2 personality has previously come under fire due to claims she had previous “professional training”.
But on week two, Shirley Ballas and Motsi Mabuse gave Tasha and her partner Aljaž Škorjanec a standing ovation after their routine.
Three of the judges – including Craig Revel Horwood – called her routine the “dance of the night.”
Anton Du Beke was also extremely complimentary as he exclaimed: “‘Give us a chance to do something bad, I’d like to mark you down.”
Despite it being only the second week, she scored a whopping 35 points as she received nine points from Shirley, Anton and Motsi
Claudia Winkleman also revealed that it was the highest ever score of a Viennese waltz in week two in Strictly Come Dancing history.
Viewers couldn’t help but take to X – formerly known as Twitter – as they declared that she had already earned her spot in the final.
“Three 9’s in week 2???? tasha is a force to be reckoned with,” wrote one fan.
A second user posted: “Tasha’s cinched her way to the final. Like give her the 10’s right now.”
While a third commented “Does Tasha have dance experience? if not ..for week 2 …I think we maybe seeing the winner … it was like watching 2 professionals!”
However many berated the routine as they blasted her casting because of her prior professional dance training.
Another fan said: “Not sure Tasha being on this years Strictly is entirely fair on the rest of the contestants. She is far and away the best dancer, but she is of course a dancer by profession.”
Someone else raged: “Tasha ghouri is a dancer so of course she can dance! Ffs.”
As an additional user stated: “Of course Tasha is a fab dancer….wouldn’t expect anything else from someone who used to be a professional dancer. I’m interested in how those who’ve never danced, or had little dance experience, improve, so Tasha will get no votes from me”
While a seventh blasted: “Sorry, but it has to be said, Tasha has literal Dance training that Shirley has judged before, how is it fair she’s up against complete amateurs?!
Strictly Come Dancing’s Second Week Scores
As is tradition, the first week scores are rolled over and combined into the second week. Here’s how the leaderboard now looks after the combined scores
- Tasha and Aljaz = 65 (30+35)
- Sarah and Vito = 62 (30+32)
- JB and Amy = 58 (31+27)
- Montell and Johannes = 56 (26+30)
- Wynne and Katya = 56 (26+30)
- Shayne and Nancy = 52 (21+31)
- Chris and Dianne = 52 (23+29)
- Jamie and Michelle = 50 (23+27)
- Sam and Nikita = 45 (23+22)
- Tom and Nadiya = 43 (23+20)
- Nick and Luba = 39 (18+21)
- Pete and Jowita = 39 (17+22)
- Dr Punam and Gorka = 37 (19+18)
- Paul and Karen = 32 (17+15)
- Toyah and Neil = 30 (12+18)
“Yes I know, people have Brit school or musical theatre training, but this is another level! Like actual dance training.”
And an eighth added: “Tasha was a professional dancer before Love Island. She shouldn’t be on this programme. Unfair.”
The judges comments were not without controversy either as Anton Du Beke caused confusion amongst fans.
He claimed: “If I could give you 12, I’d probably give you twelve,” before going onto award her with his score of nine.
If I could give you 12, I’d probably give you twelve
Anton Du Beke on Strictly
More viewers took to the social media platform as they blasted the judge as they claimed she should have been given a ten by the long-time ballroom star.
“Anton, you can’t say “I’d give it 12 if I could” and then score 9,” said one fan.
As a second pointed out: “Anton to Tasha & Aljaz: “If I could give you a 12 I would”. So he gives them 9.”
“FFS I thought Tasha deserved at least one 10 there, judges bottled it,” raged a third confused viewer.
As a fourth added: “How can Craig say Tasha’s dance is the dance of the night, and then score her the same as Montell?”