Strictly fans claim Will Best is being treated unfairly with dreaded ‘death slot’

Do you think Dianne Buswell and Will Best could win the show? (Picture: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Wire)

Strictly Come Dancing fans believe Will Best and Dianne Buswell deserve better treatment after being given the ‘death slot’ on the BBC series.

Tonight, the Big Brother host and his professional dance partner took to the dancefloor to perform a stunning Waltz to With You I’m Born Again by Billy Preston & Syreeta.

Their performance was full of emotion, and one of the dances that fans were raving about the most while tweeting about the live show. It scored a 25 from the judges, which some felt was lower than warranted.

However, some viewers claimed that they could be at a disadvantage due to how early they’ve been performing each week in comparison to their competitors, given the fact that the public vote opens at the end of the episode.

In week one, Will, 41, and Dianne, 37, were the first to perform, while in week two, they were in the middle of the schedule. They then performed second in week three and in week four.

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‘Why are Will and Dianne going early every week?’ Strictly fan xSuziBethx asked on X, while Carlee3091 quipped: ‘Will and Dianne in the death slot? Oh of course!!’

Fans think Dianne and Will going early could disadvantage them when the public vote opens at the end of the episode (Picture: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Wire)

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Another X user called Strictlylmx claimed that Will and Dianne had been ‘slated for the last two weeks and are still getting a death slot Waltz this show’.

The pair landed around the middle of the leaderboard tonight, prompting several people to declare that they should have scored higher for their emotive routine.

‘This was honestly Will’s best dance [so] far. The way he led Dianne, the beautiful quality of dancing I saw tonight,’ kamor_ian0121 remarked.

‘Aawww I loved that from Will and Dianne and their chemistry is so beautiful,’ Margot shared, while Jade added: ‘Did Dianne just turn Will into an actual dancer with that Waltz?! Holy moly! He’s actually got the talent when he’s not leaning into being the joke act. He needs to lock in cos he’s got bags of potential.’

Will said it was an ‘absolute dream’ to take part in Strictly (Picture: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Wire)

Will has an extremely busy schedule at the moment, juggling competing on Strictly with hosting the latest series of Big Brother with former Strictly star AJ Odudu.

After he was announced as the sixth star to be competing on this year’s series, he described it as an ‘absolute dream’ for him, despite also being ‘pretty terrifying’.

‘I’ve been lucky to do lots of live telly before, but absolutely nothing like this. And I cannot wait! I have no idea if I can actually dance, but bring on the sequins, bring on the quicksteps, bring on the dance floor! I’m going to try to enjoy every minute of it,’ he said.

Dianne’s had a strong run on Strictly, earning second place with her now-partner Joe Sugg, ending as the runner-up with Bobby Brazier, and then finally winning with the wonderful Chris McCausland in 2024.

Let’s see if she and Will can make it all the way to the end in the hopes of lifting the Glitterball Trophy this year.

Strictly Come Dancing airs on Saturday nights on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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Kevin Schade injury update after Brentford star forced off in Aston Villa draw

Brentford forward Kevin Schade (Picture: Reuters)

Brentford will wait to discover the extent of Kevin Schade’s injury after the forward was forced off during his side’s 2-2 draw with Aston Villa.

Schade has enjoyed a fast start to this Premier League season, with three goals in his first six league games.

But the German was forced off and replaced by Mamadou Sangare early in the second half at Villa Park after injuring his shoulder.

Asked about Schade’s injury post-match, Keith Andrews said: ‘He probably wasn’t right at half-time, he wanted to give it a go.

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‘He’s picked up a shoulder injury so we’ll see how he is in the next few days.’

Elsewhere, Jannik Schuster was withdrawn at half-time, with Andrews explaining that the centre-back was managing an injury picked up in training.

‘Jannik picked up a knock during the week,’ Andrews added. ‘He didn’t quite look amazing in training yesterday, how he was moving.

Kristoffer Ajer rescued a point for Brentford (Picture: PA)

‘It felt similar today in the warm-up. There was just a little incident with his ankle, so I thought it was the right decision just to take him out of the firing line.’

On his side’s performance more generally, the Brentford boss said: ‘I liked a lot today – spirit, grit, determination.

‘There was evidence of rustiness which is understandable but I don’t like to use that as an excuse but the boys have been away for three weeks so it’s trying to find the balance.

‘Then we had Kevin’s [Schade] injury, Jannik [Schuster] wasn’t right and came off at half time, so we got tested today.

‘But we’re also up against a team who I thought were just starting to click before the international break. But the fact that we’re disappointed coming away from home to a Champions League team who spend big money tells you a lot.’

Brentford are back in action next Saturday at home to Liverpool.

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Man called Hitler Mussolini wins local election

Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores was elected mayor of Queropalca (Picture: Peruvian electoral authority)

A man named Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has been elected as mayor of a town in Peru.

The candidate, who stood for the centre-left Ahora Nación party, won 34% of the vote in Queropalca, a remote district in the Peruvian Andes.

In total, 229 residents out of 700 voted for the 45-year-old, with local media reporting that the top three candidates were separated by just 42 votes.

The newly elected mayor, whose unusual forenames are those of two notorious fascist dictators, was born in the central department of Huánuco, 224 miles from the capital, Lima, according to his candidate profile.

In 2018, another Peruvian politician called Hitler won a mayoral election in the district of Yúngar, beating a candidate named Lenin.

Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez defeated Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde in the contest.

Alba told broadcasters during his campaing ‘I’m the good Hitler,’ according to local media.

Meanwhile, in Namibia, politician Adolf Hitler Uunona won his fifth consecutive local election last year.

Uunona, who received 85% of the vote in his constituency, has previously explained that he did not understand the significance of his name as a child.

‘As a child I saw it as a totally normal name,’ he told the BBC.

He later told German newspaper Bild that his father had named him after the Nazi leader, but probably did not understand what Adolf Hitler stood for.

‘It wasn’t until I was growing up that I realised: This man wanted to subjugate the whole world,’ he said.

‘I have nothing to do with any of these things.’

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Dad-of-two killed after being tortured and set on fire over missing cigarettes

From L to R: Kye Arthur, 35, Neil Jones, 48, Tobiasz Kozlowski, 38, and Kevin Wooden, 46, (Picture: West Midlands Police)

Four men who killed a dad-of-two by pouring petrol on him and setting him on fire have been jailed.

Tomasz Samel, 45, was kidnapped in March 2019 in Birmingham by three men claiming to be from Interpol.

The 45-year-old was working for an organised crime group, who wanted to ‘teach him a lesson’ over the loss of cigarettes worth £1 million.

The men claimed they were from Interpol, and drove him around the Liverpool area before torturing him.

Mr Samel was dumped in a remote location by the group after being set on fire ‘naked and outnumbered’. He managed to walk to a nearby house where he was given a glass of water and taken to hospital.

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He died in hospital three months later.

Mr Samel’s killing was linked to the seizure of illicit and counterfeit cigarettes which had been smuggled into the UK from Poland.

Tomasz Samel, dad-of-two, who died after being set on fire (Picture: West Midlands Police/PA Wire)

The victim had a unit in Elkington Street, Aston, Birmingham, the court heard, where HM Revenue and Customs had seized cigarettes on February 22 2019.

Neil Jones, 48, and Tobiasz Kozlowski, 38, who were among the main organisers behind the abduction and death of Mr Samel were jailed at Birmingham Crown Court for life today.

Kevin Wooden, 46, and 35-year-old Kye Arthur, were cleared of murder and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm but were found guilty of manslaughter.

They were sentenced to 23 years and 22 years respectively.

They drove around Liverpool before torturing Mr Samel (Picture: West Midlands Police)

They had admitted conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to falsely imprison.

Kozlowski’s wife, Sandra Kozlowska, 38, also of Crosland Road, Kirkby, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, suspended, after she was found guilty of assisting an offender.

In his sentencing remarks, Judge Mr Justice Wall told the defendants they had all chosen to involve themselves in a ‘truly horrific series of events’.

He said: ‘You played different parts in what happened. I am sure that you, Kozlowski and Jones, were organisers of these events.

‘You both had a financial stake in the cigarettes that went missing and had a motive to punish the man whom you considered had lost them.

‘You both went to Poland after they went missing. I am sure that this was part of the planning process.’

He added: ‘I am sure that the two of you intended that Mr Samel would die.

‘If you had intended anything short of death, you would have made some arrangement for his being returned to Birmingham after he was assaulted.

‘Rather, you disposed of the van he was brought to Liverpool in and sent the kidnappers away without asking them to wait to take Tomasz Samel home.

‘Your chosen method of inflicting violence was fire. Fire is self-evidently not a weapon which can be controlled to a nicety allowing for the infliction of serious injury rather than death.

‘In any event, even if your intention had been that he should not be killed but be really seriously injured, this affords you no mitigation for an attack carried out as it was.

‘The distinction between an intention to kill and one to cause grievous bodily harm when someone is set alight with petrol is paper thin if it exists at all.’

The judge said life imprisonment was ‘richly deserved’ for Kozlowski and Jones.

He said: ‘There was a very high degree of mental and physical suffering inflicted on Tomasz Samel before he died – both in the period where he was being held hostage and the period of three months while he was in hospital.

‘Your victim was vulnerable at the time he was set alight – he was naked and outnumbered.’

Of Wooden and Arthur, the judge said he accepted that the pair had been recruited to the plan and paid to act as Amazon delivery men and then law enforcement officers to kidnap Mr Samel.

He said: ‘The jury’s verdicts of guilty of manslaughter make clear that you knew that violence was to be meted out to Mr Samel after you had delivered him.’

He added: ‘The kidnapping was committed in the victim’s own home… This was a highly planned activity in which you did not become involved at the last moment.’

Addressing Kozlowska, the judge said her efforts to assist her husband were ‘persistent and varied and they allowed (him) to evade justice for some time’.

A six-week trial was told Mr Samel, who was the subject of an international arrest warrant, was dumped in a remote location in Lancashire after he was set on fire.

He managed to walk to a house and was given water after knocking at the door of a property near Bickerstaffe at 11.10pm on March 27.

He was taken to Whiston Hospital in Prescot but died on June 21 2019 as a result of his injuries.

The police investigation into Mr Samel’s killing saw wider inquiries carried out in Poland, Greece, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, France, Scotland and Wales, where the gang had operations or had fled to in the aftermath of the kidnap.

The CPS said Wooden was arrested in the Dominican Republic under a false name and had to be extradited before the trial.

Hannah Sidaway, roving liaison prosecutor at the CPS, said: ‘This case shows what can be achieved when prosecutors and law enforcement work together across borders.

‘Support from our partners in Poland, Greece and the Dominican Republic, together with Eurojust, was instrumental in securing evidence, progressing inquiries across jurisdictions, and ensuring those responsible faced justice in the UK.

‘The CPS is grateful to all our partners, and our thoughts remain with Mr Samel’s family.’

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Prince Harry reveals he slipped into ‘deep depression for weeks’ after Megxit

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Prince Harry has opened up about not being able to cry for decades after Princess Diana’s death in a revealing interview with a therapist.

The Duke of Sussex spoke of the ‘adrenaline crash’ he felt after Megxit and escaping a ‘stressful environment’ and then suffering depression.

Harry and Meghan recently returned to the UK from California, six years after stepping back from royal duties.

Harry revealed he did not cry for almost 20 years after his mother’s death and thinks of her ‘pretty much every night and then most mornings’.

Opening up on his mother’s death, he said: ‘You would think I had the best help in the world. I’m a prince, for God’s sake, but I was still grieving and didn’t have any place to put those feelings,’ he said, describing emotions he bottled up for ’15 or 20 years’.

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Harry said he finally found happiness with his wife before ‘slipping into depression’ after the couple stepped back from Royal duties under the glare of the media.

Prince Harry opens up about grief and depression (Picture: Masterclass)

‘We moved to Canada to get some space away from everything and simply think,’ he said.

‘Within two or three days of leaving that stressful environment, I experienced an adrenaline crash unlike anything I’d ever felt before.

‘It was as though I needed stress for my brain to function. I became useless around the house. I slipped into depression for about two weeks and felt like I couldn’t function without adrenaline.’

Prince Harry spoke candidly of the mental anguish he has gone through since Princes Diana’s death (Picture: Masterclass)

The duke also addressed his grief for his mother, saying for many years he felt like he had to be sad to prove he missed her.

‘The reality is, what I discovered was actually she just wanted me to be happy,’ he said.

Prince Harry feared forgetting his mother’s laugh (Picture: Martin Keene/PA Wire)

After fears he would forget his mother’s laugh, a therapist recommended spraying her perfume to allow vivid memories of Diana to resurface.

‘It was like being transported to another time,’ Harry said. ‘It unlocked everything that had been locked away. 

‘Spraying my mother’s scent was almost like knocking certain bricks through so that I could see through and certain memories and experiences could start seeping back.’

Harry also said: ‘Everything I do, everything I put my energy towards, I hope that my mother will be proud of.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, recently returned to the UK (Picture: Paul Davey/SWNS)

‘Trying to continue and protect her legacy, what I didn’t realise was that the work I was drawn to was so similar to the work she was doing.’

Diana’s brother Earl Spencer has spoken of how the treatment of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has ‘echoes’ of what happened to his sister.

‘I think it would be really beholden on people to learn from Diana’s example,’ he told the BBC.

‘I’m not here to speak for Harry and Meghan, but for anyone who’s being destroyed in this way daily, it must be such a cancerous influence in their life.’

Earl Spencer said he had seen Diana’s ‘tears of despair’ over the extensive coverage of her personal life and described her as ‘very, very sensitive to criticism’.

Diana, who married King Charles – then the heir to the throne – in 1981, was subjected to intense public scrutiny throughout her public life.

Earl Spencer said she was ‘really brought low by all that criticism’, adding that it was a ‘pity’ to see ‘echoes of that now’ in the treatment of his nephew and his wife.

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s ‘DOY’ Bentley goes on sale at dealership

The reported former Bentley of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is in ‘flawless condition’ (Picture: AFP/Getty)

A Bentley believed to have belonged to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has gone on sale at a dealership for nearly £125,000.

The luxury Bentley Flying Spur, which has clocked up just 7,000 miles, is being advertised by Portland of Bawtry in Doncaster as an ‘Ex Royal Family Car’.

The asking price is £124,975, which is considerably less than the reported £220,000 it cost when it was bought new around six years ago.

The former Duke of York was previously seen driving a Bentley Flying Spur with the personalised ‘A03 DOY’ number plate to his father’s funeral in 2021 and his granddaughter’s christening the following year.

He reportedly gave up the number plate last October, around the time the King announced stripping him of his titles. It is also no longer listed on the DVLA website.

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The car was reportedly resprayed in Barnato racing green and comes with a linen and Cumbrian green diamond-quilted leather interior.

The Bentley is being advertised as an ‘Ex Royal Family Car’ (Picture: Mark Worgan/Portland Autos/Cover Images)

The asking price is £124,975 for the luxury car (Picture: Mark Worgan/Portland Autos/Cover Images)

It also has a six-litre engine, four-wheel drive and 22-inch polished alloy wheels.

Dealership owner Clive Watson told The Times: ‘We found it had a very strange service history so made some inquiries and realised it was a royal household car.

‘The Bentley is beautiful, in flawless condition and has just 7,000 miles on it.

The sale comes as Andrew prepares to take legal action against Thames Valley Police and the Central Criminal Court in an attempt to quash search warrants linked to his arrest in February.

Andrew pictured leaving Aylsham Police Station on the day of his arrest (Picture: Reuters)

The 66-year-old was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office (Picture: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

He was arrested on his 66th birthday on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

This came following allegations that he shared sensitive information with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while serving as the UK’s trade envoy. Mountbatten-Windsor has denied any wrongdoing.

The warrants allowed police to search his residence on the Sandringham Estate and his former home in Windsor.

A High Court hearing is due to take place on Thursday, when judges will also consider a Thames Valley Police application to restrict access to certain documents.

The force has said its investigation into alleged misconduct in public office remains ongoing.

Metro has contacted Portland Autos for comment.

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Unexpected Ian twist and Linda breakthrough as EastEnders spoilers reveal what happens next

Big twists ahead (Picture: BBC / Metro)

Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) was left in tears and Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) was on a mission as the credits rolled on yet another high-octane EastEnders.

Longtime Walford stalwart Ian, as viewers know, was devastated when he was sent to prison earlier in the year and, despite being released in the latest visit to the Square, the ordeal has taken its toll on him.

The businessman struggled to adjust to life back in Walford and, after learning that Harvey Monroe (Ross Boatman) missed an inspection at the chippy, he saw red and punched him.

When he realised what he’d done, Ian apologised and headed back to No. 45, saying aloud that he cannot go back to prison. Mum Kathy (Gillian Taylforth) offered support as he sobbed in her arms.

Over at the B&B, Linda made it her mission to find out what Lee Carter (Danny Hatchard) is hiding about ex Jess, who he claims abandoned him and their unborn child – who sister Nancy (Maddy Hill) is carrying.

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She made a plot to track Jess down, much to the chagrin of Lee – but will she get the answers she’s looking for? Elsewhere, Ryder Hawkins (Felix Uff) was shown the ropes of Harry’s Barn by Nicola Mitchell (Laura Doddington), though Ned’s (Jamie Bamber) attitude towards the young lad raised her eyebrows.

For a first look at what tomorrow’s edition of the soap entails, here’s everything you need to know.

What happens next in EastEnders? New spoilers for Thursday, October 8

Ian pushes his loved ones away in the wake of what transpired and things go from bad to worse when he discovers that Beales Eels has been vandalised.

Ned, who showed an interest in Ian earlier this week, comes to the Walford legend’s aid, helping him clean off the graffiti and urging him to face the reality of what happened on the night of the accident.

Ian struggles to adjust (Picture: BBC / Jack Barnes / Kieron McCarron)

Ian subsequently reaches out to Chelsea Fox (Zaraah Abrahams) and later reconnects with Ned, thanking him for his support.

Penny Branning (Kitty Castledine), meanwhile, is left worried when Rose (Marian McLoughlin) and Jodie (Anna Constable) comment that Ethan doesn’t look like Vinny Panesar (Shiv Jalota).

Elsewhere, Nicola and Ryder continue to bond. Nicola, however, gets a shock when Ryder brings his date to Harry’s Barn. Afterwards, he asks to speak to Nicola alone. But just what does he want to say?

And as for Linda and Lee, the aftermath of their showdown will no doubt take centre stage.

Will Lee be able to talk Linda out of trying to track down Jess? Or will Linda persist and work out what really happened between her son and his ex?

EastEnders airs these scenes Thursday October 8 at 7:30pm on BBC One or stream from 6am on BBC iPlayer.

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