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Tina Campbell

Rose Ayling-Ellis says ‘don’t compare me to Ellie Simmonds’ as she responds to Strictly criticism

Strictly: Rose Ayling-Ellis says her disability is different to Ellie Simmonds’s and should ‘not be compared’

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Rose Ayling-Ellis has fired back angrily at a recent article criticisng Strictly Come Dancing as the BBC’s “latest woke box-ticking exercise”.

The EastEnders actress - who has been deaf since birth and uses British Sign Language to communicate - made Strictly history last year when she became the first deaf person to win the show.

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