‘I will be watching from my sofa!’ Strictly’s Tilly Ramsay is forced to pull out of the final after revealing she’s tested positive for Covid
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Strictly Come Dancing star Tilly Ramsay has revealed she won’t be appearing in Saturday’s grand final after testing positive for Covid.
The presenter, 20, who was set to join the other eliminated celebrities for a group routine, took to Instagram to reveal she’d be watching ‘from the sofa’ after contracting the virus.
Last month Tilly and her professional partner Nikita Kuzmin became the ninth couple to be voted off the show after failing to impress with their samba.
Drama: Strictly Come Dancing star Tilly Ramsay has revealed she won’t be appearing in Saturday’s grand final after testing positive for Covid
Tilly shared a snap of the three couples set to compete in the final, John Whaite and Johannes Radebe, AJ Odudu and Kai Widdrington and Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice, to reveal she’d pulled out of the show.
She penned the caption: ‘So sad to be missing the Strictly final – but sadly have tested positive for covid so will be watching from my sofa and cheering on the amazing finalists from home on Saturday night – wishing everyone lots of love & good luck.’
All of this year’s eliminated Strictly couples will return to the show on Saturday for a group performance, as fans wait to see who will lift the coveted Glitterball trophy.
Sad news: The presenter who was set to join the other eliminated celebrities for a group routine, took to Instagram to reveal she’d be watching ‘from the sofa’
After her elimination, it was reported that Tilly’s professional dance partner Nikita is in ‘hot water,’ with long-term girlfriend Nicole Wirt after failing to return to Germany.
It’s understood that Nikita is unable to fly back to his homeland until his contractual obligations with the show are officially over, while complications regarding the ongoing coronavirus crisis have further hampered his return.
A source told MailOnline: ‘Nikita hasn’t made any decision not to return home, he wouldn’t have been able to go home regardless of new variants as he is contracted to the show and so needed for group numbers etc.’
Tilly and Nikita were the ninth couple eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing – leaving her famous father welling up in the studio.
Chef Gordon, 55, couldn’t hold back the tears as his daughter waved goodbye to the competition alongside Nikita, after they scored 30 for their Samba to Levitating by Dua Lipa and placed bottom of the leaderboard.
Announcement: Tilly shared a snap of the three couples set to compete in the final and Giovanni Pernice, to reveal she’d pulled out of the show
Missing out: She penned the caption: ‘So sad to be missing the Strictly final – but sadly have tested positive for covid so will be watching from my sofa’
Speaking on their last It Takes Two appearance, the daughter of Gordon Ramsay gushed over her experience.
She told host Rylan Clark: ‘You know what, I’m so sad that’s it’s over but I’m also celebrating what we’ve done in the past ten weeks. It’s just been amazing and I want to look back at it positively, because that’s what it was, just the best experience.’
Weighing in on her time on the show, Tilly credited Nikita for her growth. She said: ‘I actually watched back our week one dance the other day and then watched this dance, and I couldn’t believe it was me still.
‘In that one I could barely let go of Nikita whereas in this one he’d managed to get me dancing around the floor smiling, shaking and just having fun.’
Knocked out: Last month Tilly and her professional partner Nikita Kuzmin became the ninth couple to be voted off the show after failing to impress with their samba
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