Jody Cundy CBE is the third celebrity to depart the dance floor in Strictly Come Dancing 2023.
Tonight the remaining couples took to the Strictly Ballroom floor in the hope of impressing our judges, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke and Head Judge, Shirley Ballas and the voting public.
This weekend, Jody Cundy became the third contestant to leave Strictly Come Dancing as he faced Eddie Kadi in the dreaded dance off.
Both couples performed their routines again. Jody Cundy and his dance partner Jowita Przystal performed their Salsa to Samba de Janeiro by Bellini.
Then Eddie Kadi and his dance partner Karen Hauer performed their American Smooth to Sex Bomb by Tom Jones, in a bid to impress the judges and remain in the competition.
After both couples had danced a second time, the judges delivered their verdicts:
Craig Revel Horwood chose to save Eddie and Karen.
Craig said: “For improvement and musicality I would like to save Eddie and Karen.”
Motsi Mabuse chose to save Eddie and Karen.
Motsi said: “For me it was a very clear decision, one couple was much, much stronger. I would love to save Eddie and Karen.”
Anton Du Beke chose to save Eddie and Karen.
Anton said: “Well based on the dance off and the dance off only, I thought one couple danced very well and one couple had a bit of an off night, there were a couple of mistakes there so I would like to save Eddie and Karen.”
With 3 votes to Eddie and Karen, it meant they had won the majority vote and would be staying in the competition regardless, however Head Judge Shirley Ballas also said she would have decided to save Eddie and Karen.
Shirley said, “I agreed with the Judges I would have saved Eddie and Karen”
When asked by Tess about his time on the show, Jody said: “You know what, when I signed up for this I thought what an earth am I signing up for and we did that first live show and I absolutely loved every second of it. And just being able to dance and do something I’ve never done before and get completely out of my comfort zone and with this amazing person. This person’s got so much energy, every morning like 9 O’clock we’ve got, start of training and she’s like BAMMM, like this, she comes into the room like an absolute cannonball and she just doesn’t stop the whole day. And she doesn’t lose any faith, doesn’t lose anything, motivates me on to do more and more. So I’ve had an absolute blast.”
Jowita was then asked if she had any words for her partner, she said: “I cannot even describe how proud I am of you Jody, cause from Day 1 till now, it’s enormous improvement. And I hope from now on, when you go out, when you hear the music, you’re not going to hide anywhere. You’re going to go on that dancefloor and you’re going to give it all. And I hope, one day when you look back at all of this, you will say to yourself I’m proud of myself, because that will be my biggest achievement.”
The results show opens with a beautiful love story from our professional dancers, and the incredible Beverley Knight performs in the ballroom singing ‘I’m on Fire’.
The remaining twelve couples will take to the dancefloor next when Strictly Come Dancing returns on Saturday 21st of October at 6.35pm, with the results show on Sunday 22rdOctober at 7:15pm on BBC One.
Strictly – It Takes Two
Jody and Jowita will be joining Fleur East and Janette Manrara for their first exclusive televised interview live on Strictly It Takes Two on Monday 16th October at 6.30pm on BBC Two.
