Kym Marsh has rubbished the Strictly Come Dancing 'fix' claims after Hamza Yassin and Jowita Przystal won the show last weekend.
Scotland's national treasure Hamza had viewers and fans in tears when he lifted the glitterball trophy with Jowita on Saturday night.
The wildlife photographer, who lives in Ardnamurchan, went on to the BBC dance show having had no previous experience.
This week Strictly bosses have been accused of a fix after a video of Hamza doing an “advanced” dance at university 12 years ago surfaced.
But Coronation Street star Kym denied rumours of wrongdoing and said there wasn’t a “dry eye in the house” after Hamza and Jowita's win. Kym, 46, took part in the BBC ballroom dancing competition but was the 10th celebrity eliminated following a battle with Covid-19.
The mother-of-four returned to the Strictly stage for the grand finale to take part in the celebrity group dance, and has since opened up about the emotional moment Hamza won. Speaking on Morning Live with Gethin Jones, Kym discussed the nail-biting final where Hamza, Helen Skelton, Fleur East or Molly Rainford battled it out.
“Yeah, it was amazing,” Kym told Gethin. “You know it was such a tense moment for them waiting to find out who the winner was, but it was incredible, just incredible."
But she did add there “was not a dry eye in the house. It was fabulous.”
Speaking about her cameo in the group dance, Kym made a surprise appearance from a hospital bed straight onto the dance floor. Dressed in a stunning coral sequin dress, the soap star admitted this entrance was “possibly the strangest thing” she had ever done.
“This is possibly the strangest entrance I’ve ever made, ever, and the strangest thing I’ve ever done” she said, before she joked about her time in the ITV Popstars band and added: “And I was in Hear’Say so that’s saying something! Straight out of a hospital bed there you go.”
The pictures, taken in 2010, showed him doing a paso doble at Bangor University Dance Club’s end-of-term show. A fellow student who took part said: “For the BBC to continue insisting he is a complete novice even when faced with hard evidence in the form of a video of him performing an ‘advanced’ paso doble feels extremely misleading.
“Yet the mistruths were still being aired on Saturday’s show.”
Dance partner Jowita told viewers on Saturday night: “He came here on the show with no dancing experience, with pigeon toes, and he made it.”
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