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Comedian Chris McCausland, Strictly Come Dancing’s first blind contestant, has been crowned this year’s winner.
The 47-year-old beat JLS singer JB Gill, actress Sarah Hadland and former Love Islander Tasha Ghouri to lift the glitterball trophy in Saturday’s live final on BBC One.
McCausland, who was the bookmakers’ favourite to win, performed three dances with partner Dianne Buswell.
He said his win was for him, “and for everyone out there who’s got told they couldn’t do something or thought they couldn’t do it”.
Judge Motsi Mabuse said: “I am a mess because of you, and I said I would not cry in this final.”
McCausland was registered blind after gradually losing his sight to retinitis pigmentosa in his 20s and 30s. He is the BBC programme’s first blind contestant.
The winning duo faced stiff competition from the other remaining couples – JB Gill and Lauren Oakley, Tasha Ghouri and Aljaž Škorjanec, and Sarah Hadland and Vito Coppola.
Gill and Oakley were first to take to the dance floor.
The pair performed routines including a Show Dance to a Motown Medley and a Viennese Waltz to Let’s Go Fly A Kite from Mary Poppins.
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