The smartest thing about Strictly Come Dancing is that you simply by no means know what’s going to occur subsequent, and tonight viewers bought the final word shock.
This week noticed the return of Icons Week, during which the celebrities and their skilled companions embodied their music heroes and dressed up because the likes of Beyonce, Dolly Parton, and Usher.
For Vicky Pattison, the truth star, 37, opted for Cheryl, having resonated with the 42-year-old fellow Geordie’s rise to fame.
She and professional Kai Widdrington introduced all types of nostalgia to the dance flooring with a pair’s option to Cheryl’s 2009 debut solo banger Fight for This Love, which was not solely rewarded with some spectacular scores but in addition a message from the lady herself.
Following her efficiency, host Claudia Winkleman, who introduced this week that Strictly 2025 can be her ultimate collection, instructed Vicky: ‘You love Cheryl, don’t you? I’ve bought one thing to let you know… she loves you too.’
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‘Does she actually?’, Vicky squealed, leaping up and down in shock as a video of the Girls Aloud singer appeared on display.
In it, the pop star instructed the Geordie Shore queen: ‘Hi, Vicky. It’s Cheryl right here.
‘I initially needed to say congratulations in your Strictly success up to now; you’ve been doing wonderful.
‘I’m very honoured and humbled to be your chosen icon for this week.’
She added sweetly: ‘I do know you’ve bought it in you, ’trigger you’re a Geordie, so go on the market, combat to your place, and I’m sending you a great deal of love. I’ll be rooting for you from residence. Big kiss.’
Vicky, understandably, watched the clip with a wide-open mouth earlier than excitedly screaming: ‘She is aware of who I’m!’
‘Oh my God, I like you, Cheryl,’ the podcaster flirted down the digital camera lens, to which Claudia mocked: ‘Oh, she is aware of.’
Taking to X after the very healthful second, Strictly viewers have been simply as overjoyed as Vicky to see Cheryl again on their televisions, as she’s stored a low profile for the previous 12 months because the dying of her ex-partner, Liam Payne.
Cheryl shared eight-year-old son Bear with the late One Direction star, whose dying on the tender age of 31 rocked the world final October when he fell from his resort balcony in Argentina.
‘The means I’m crying at cheryl sending vicky a message WE LOVE YOU CHERYL’, tweeted @scddevereaux.
‘A MESSAGE FROM CHERYL OMG’, wrote @BradleyXO_.
‘NAH THE WAY I SCREAMED WHEN I SAW CHERYL’, added @KatMarBax.
‘cheryl video message on strictly oh i’m gonna cry together with vicky now’, penned @Kaaaaatie_x.
There was additionally loads of reward for Vicky’s routine tonight, as viewers are loving watching her enhance week after week.
‘Vicky and Kai have been so in sync!! Incredible!’, @sequinnedsheep declared after the pair’s fierce quantity within the iconic pink army costumes.
‘I can’t cease excited about Vicky’s dance. As an enormous Cheryl fan I’m actually obsessive about the entire thing’, @michellepryde agreed.
Speaking in her tearful VT earlier than taking to the ground tonight, Vicky defined: ‘Cheryl Cole is an icon to me. She’s a working-class lady from Newcastle; she’s had her ups and downs, her grazed knees, and I simply really feel like I can relate to lots of her.’
‘Vicky hasn’t come from lots, and from the place she was to the place she is now could be really unbelievable,’ her husband, Ercan, additionally praised.
Getting emotional, Vicky then mirrored on ‘shedding [her] means’ following a ‘pretty’ childhood, having began within the leisure trade in her early twenties.
‘I made some dangerous choices,’ she confessed. ‘I simply don’t assume, at that age, I had the instruments to navigate that house I used to be in.’
Thankfully, she’s come out the opposite aspect, declaring that she’s now ‘doing [her] greatest to be a greater model of [herself]’ and be somebody who can ‘look within the mirror and really feel alright about’.
‘Now that I’m doing this unbelievable present, and once I look into the viewers and I see my mam’s face and my dad’s face and my sister’s, I’m simply so completely happy. Sometimes, I’ve gotta pinch myself.’
Vicky’s couple’s alternative was given 33 factors in whole, with choose Shirley Ballas noting the ‘synchronisation’ and Motsi Mabuse stating: ‘I’ve by no means seen you carry out higher than this. This was your greatest dance.’
Strictly Come Dancing airs Saturdays and Sundays on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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