Strictly Come Dancing 2024 fans 'sobbing' as a special guest arrives

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Strictly Come Dancing 2024 viewers were in tears - and so was Claudia Winkleman!

Strictly Come Dancing glitterball logo
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Strictly Come Dancing 2024 reached week 10 tonight, with the remaining celebrities battling it out to make it to next week's quarter final!

Things got pretty competitive on the Strictly dance floor with Sarah and Vito, JB and Lauren, and Montell and Johannes, all winning 10s from the judges.

PLUS, Tasha and Aljaz scooped the first four 10s of the series for their beautiful American smooth.

Dianne Buswell's parents and Tess

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At home, the viewers were delighted by the fabulous dancing on show. But it was actually a visitor to the show that left the fans - and Claudia - "sobbing"

Dancer Dianne Buswell has wowed the viewers this series with her brilliant partnership with comedian Chris McCausland.

Chris, who's blind, has wowed the fans throughout the season with his moves and Dianne's thoughtful choreography and care for her celebrity partner has won her a whole new host of fans.

Chris and Dianne paso doble

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At the start of the series, Australian Dianne told Chris she wanted to stay in the competition until November because her parents were coming to watch her dance.

Chris looked doubtful at the very idea of staying in the show so long. But here we were in week 10 and Dianne's parents Mark and Rina Buswell were in the crowd!

Dianne's parents cry in the audience

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Proud dad Mark was so chuffed with Chris and Dianne's paso doble, that he was sobbing in the audience.

And that set everyone else off. Even Claudia up in the auditorium! And for a while 'Dianne' was trending on social media site X!

"I'm so happy Chris and Dianne are still in so we could have this moment," said one emotional fan.

"Not Dianne's dad crying," another viewer shared. "I'm sobbing."

After the sambathon at the end of this evening's episode, Chris and Dianne were second bottom on the leaderboard. But the fans are convinced they'll be taking home the glitterball trophy.

"Not only is he inspirational, he is incredible," said one stunned fan after Chris danced this evening.

Wil Chris and Dianne make it to next week's quarter finals? We'll find out in tomorrow's results show.

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Kerry Barrett
Kerry Barrett
Freelance writer

Kerry is a writer, author and editor with a lifelong love of the soaps, a passion for TV drama of all kinds, and an obsessive devotion to Strictly Come Dancing. 

She was features editor of All About Soap magazine for more than a decade, covering every bit of excitement from all the UK soaps and the Aussies and still writes about all the juiciest gossip from the Street, the Square and the Dales whenever she can.

Kerry’s also an author of historical fiction, and her two jobs collided when she got the chance to write two novels based on Emmerdale, and the Sugden, Tate and Dingle families, during WW2.