Ellie Leach has said she is 'truly gutted' as she addressed making it through to the penultimate week of Strictly Come Dancing 2023.
The actress took to social media on Sunday to acknowledge the major achievement after changes had to be made to the BBC One dance contest.
Ellie was seen back in the ballroom on Saturday night (December 2) alongside her professional dance partner Vito Coppola. The former Coronation Street star and her professional dance partner opened the Musicals week special by performing a quickstep to the song Belle from Beauty And The Beast.
Dressed as the Disney princess in a blue and white dress, she glided and twirled across the room with Vito, who donned a Gaston costume with a bellowing white shirt and red waistcoat. READ MORE: BBC Strictly Come Dancing viewers complain 'again' with one-word response to Annabel Croft's 'emotional' Wicked routine READ MORE: Read more of today's top stories from the Manchester Evening News After the judges’ praise, it was confirmed they had secured a score of 36 which at the end of the show left them in second place on the leaderboard behind Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin who scored the first perfect score of the 2023 series.