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Tom Chambers and his dance partner Camilla Dallerup were crowned champions of Strictly Come Dancing 2008; Tom is an actor on Holby City and has improved greatly since the start of the show.

The result came as a shock as Rachel Stevens was the viewers favourite to win the competition, and after the viewers votes were counted Tom and Camilla came out on top ahead of Rachel Stevens and her dance partner Vincent Simone.

The grand final consisted of two parts of dancing, and the three couples that were in the final performed their best routines which they have performed through the series and Tom and Camilla ended up at the bottom of the leader board and they were then saved by the viewers votes and went through into the second part of the show.

Lisa Snowdon and her dance partner Brendan Cole were eliminated. They had received two perfect scores of 40 for their performances from the judges but did not get enough votes from the viewers.

That result then left Tom and Camilla to compete with Rachel and Vincent for viewers’ votes. Both couples danced a Viennese waltz. The judges did not score this section but they said both did well but Rachel’s technique was better.

The couples then performed freestyle show dances; Rachel and Vincent did a terrific routine with some spectacular lifts but were trumped by Tom and Camilla’s dance that was full of humour and cleverly a lot of preparation and hard work had gone into the routine.

A victorious and emotional Tom praised his dance partner Camilla and even left her to raise the glitterball trophy on her own before joining her in celebrating their success. Tom’s natural and spontaneous gesture along with his enjoyment and excitement of being voted through each week clearly played a part in attracting much more many votes than his rivals.