The countdown to Strictly Come Dancing 2024 is on! (Picture: BBC / Getty)
Strictly Come Dancing 2024’s launch may still be a few weeks away, but one celebrity is already expected to follow in the footsteps of reigning champions Vito Coppola and Ellie Leach.
The likes of JLS singer JB Gills and Towie’s Pete Wicks are hitting the ballroom for the beloved BBC One show’s upcoming 20th anniversary season.
Fans are still being kept in suspense over which celebrities will be partnered up with the pros, including Amy Dowden returning after her cancer treatment, but many have been spotted heading to the studios, as rehearsals are well underway for the pro-dancers.
And we might already have an inkling who will come out on top.
According to the latest odds, Love Island star Tasha Ghouri has been revealed as the favourite to lift the glitterball trophy.
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According to odds by BoyleSports, she’s the 5/2 favourite to win.
The 26-year-old TV personality, who made history as Love Island’s first deaf contestant in 2022, could be following in the footsteps of Rose Ayling-Ellis, who was Strictly’s first deaf contestant, and won the glitterball trophy (as well as a Bafta) in 2021 alongside Giovanni Pernice.
Tasha Ghouri is currently tipped to win the BBC competition (Picture: PA)
Meanwhile, EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick – who won the festive edition of Strictly last year – and Olympic gold medallist Sam Quek have both been rated the joint-second favourite at 9/2 by the oddsmakers.
Olympian Tom Dean, who won gold in Paris this year and confirmed his stint in Strictly shortly after, and ex-Team GB and Gladiators icon Montell Douglas are both in the running at 10/1.
DIY SOS star Nick Knowles however is the rank outsider of the 15 contestants, as punters have failed to envisage his dancing success as he swaps building sites for the ballroom.
Brian O’Keeffe, spokesperson for BoyleSports, said: ‘Strictly fever is in full swing with the show hitting our screens next week and plenty of punters are already putting Tasha Ghouri forward as the winner.
Source:: Metro
