Saturday night’s episode of Strictly Come Dancing marked a major milestone for this season. Love Island star Tasha Ghouri, who is paired up with professional dancer Aljaz Skorjanec, received the first “10” score of the 2024 competition, clocking up a near-perfect total of 39 for her Coachella-themed, selfie stick-waving Charleston, a seriously impressive feat just four weeks into the live shows. And yet this victorious moment has been overshadowed by two brief interactions that took place away from the dance floor – and they were so fleeting that you might well have missed them the first time around. The storm of conjecture they have prompted is perhaps the first sign that Strictly’s post-scandal era will prove very tricky indeed to navigate.
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