Ellie Simmonds left her Strictly Come Dancing pro partner Nkita Kuzmin 'broken' with a heart-wrenching question she asked him at the end of their performance on the BBC show on Saturday.
Shockwaves were sent around the Strictly ballroom and on social media when Ellie and Nikita were voted out of the competition at the weekend, having never even been in the bottom two before. They were all smiles during Saturday's live show when they received their highest score of the series - 33 out of 40 for their Charleston to jazz classic Too Darn Hot. However, those smiles turned to heartache just a few hours later when, after the public vote, Ellie and Nikita found themselves in the dance-off and were then eliminated over rivals Molly Rainford and Carlos Gu.
Emotions ran high in the studio as the couple learned their fate, with Ellie reduced to tears as Nikita heaped praise on her. And a devastated Nikita then poured his heart out on Instagram, in a post he said he 'wasn't expecting to write so early,' as fellow Strictly pros and contestants rushed to support him.
