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Hampshire’s Kai Widdrington wins Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special

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Kai, born and raised in Chandler’s Ford, won the show with RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Tayce, who was the first drag artist to participate on Strictly.

The duo received a perfect score of four 10s for their cha-cha to 100 Degrees by Kylie and Dannii Minogue.

The infamously-harsh Craig Revel Horwood was full of nothing but praise for the dance, calling it “absolutely fierce, serving realness, serving fabulous.”

Winners were determined after combining the studio audience’s votes with the judges’ scores, and Kai and Tayce managed to do enough to impress both.

Kai will also swap sequins for camping equipment next month as he participates in Celebrity Hundred on January 5.

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The Channel 4 show sees an elite team of hunters attempt to track celebrities down as they go on the run in aid of Stand Up To Cancer.

The Strictly special began with a group routine from the celebrities and their dance partners to I Love Christmas from the Scrooge film and ended with a closing number to Leona Lewis’s version of I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day.

Elsewhere during the show, comedian Josh Widdicombe and Karen Heuer performed a Charleston dressed as penguins to the Glee cast version of Let It Snow.

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Judge Anton Du Beke said he was “gobsmacked” after the comedian’s performance, saying it was “totally, totally brilliant.”

Also part of the festive line-up were Irish TV star Vogue Williams and Gorka Marquez, who jived to Rockin’ Robin by Bobby Day – the judges scored their routine 33.

Former racing car driver Billy Monger and Nadiya Bychkova danced the American smooth to Merry Christmas by Ed Sheeran and Sir Elton John.

Gladiators star Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and his dance partner Nancy Xu danced street commercial to the Glee cast version of Christmas Wrapping.

The show was hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, with the dances judged by Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse, Revel Horwood and Du Beke.

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