BBC Strictly Come Dancing winner ‘revealed’ as one finalist given huge boost

Just a few days until the Strictly Come Dancing final, with rumors about who will win the glitterball trophy this year still unfinished.

The BBC show’s most recent series’ grand finale comes on Saturday. Comedian Chris McCausland, 47, JLS ‘ JB Gill, 38, actor Sarah Hadland, 53, and Love Island star Tasha Ghouri, 26, will compete to be crowned the winner.

Ahead of their performances, bookmaker Coral has named Chris the odds-on favourite to win. The bookmaker adds that those odds suggest he has a 95% chance of winning the final and that he has been given odds of 1-20 to win.

Coral’s John Hill has suggested that it is a “one-horse race” for the glitterball trophy, saying: “]Chris] is the shortest price any contestant has been going into a Strictly final. We think it is a one-horse race, as it has been for quite some time”.

JB is currently tied for second place in the betting to win the trophy, with odds of 14-1. Sarah, a former Miranda cast member, has a 25-1 win chance, and Tasha, a reality TV star, has a 33-1 win chance.

Frontrunner Chris, who is the first blind contestant to compete on Strictly, is partnered with professional dancer Dianne Buswell, 35, on the show. Only two other celebs in this year’s competition have participated in a dance-off. Sarah, who’s partnered with Vito Coppola, 32, is the other.

JB, who is now partnered with Lauren Oakley, 33, survived a dance-off in the fifth week of the competition, when he was still partnered with Amy Dowden, 34. Whilst Tasha and her dance partner Aljaž Škorjanec, 34, instead avoided being eliminated as part of a dance-off just last weekend.

However, Tasha is the only leader out of the four runners-up, scoring JB just behind her for the group’s second highest score. Sarah has topped the leaderboard twice, whilst Chris has not, as of yet, done so.

Speaking about his time on Strictly recently, Chris said: “I wouldn’t change anything about it”. Ahead of the final, he added that he now “can’t remember” life before taking part in the show, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

He said: “It’s the maddest experience of time in that the training days, they drag, because it’s just relentless. However, Saturdays happen so quickly. Usually when you do something like this you say, hasn’t the time flown? But I can’t remember my life before Strictly. This is all I’ve ever done, in fact, to put it mildly.

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Source: Mirror