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Strictly's Dianne Buswell shares sweet tribute to Tyler West after departure

"Team TYDI will live on."

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Strictly Come Dancing spoilers follow.

Last night's (November 20) Strictly Come Dancing saw Tyler West and Dianne Buswell eliminated from the competition after facing Molly Rainford and Carlos Gu in the dreaded dance-off at Blackpool. Only Anton Du Beke voted to save them.

Now, Dianne has shared a touching post on Instagram thanking her celebrity partner, writing: "Between your smile, presence and torch collection, my gosh you lit up the room and dance floor.

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"I am forever grateful for being the lucky girl to be picked to dance with you. Your energy your smile your zest for life was with us from day 1 of rehearsals right up to that EPIC SALSA. I am a proud teacher to have trained a size 12 footed hand ball champion to dance and who I now class a DANCER.

"Thank you so so much for being the best xx team TYDI will live on."

On last night's show, Tyler said that both the contest and Dianne "changed my life" and taking part in the competition hugely improved his confidence.

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Saturday's episode also saw the first 40 awarded this series (mostly due to Craig Revel Horwood scoring lower than everyone else), for Fleur East and Vito Coppola performing a Couple's Choice routine to a Destiny's Child megamix.

"It was an iconic routine that will go down in history, but you know, one of the biggest things I loved most of all was when you trusted the off-balance," enthused head judge Shirley Ballas.

"That's so difficult! I don't think we've ever seen that before on Strictly – you were absolutely phenomenal!"

Strictly Come Dancing airs on Saturdays and Sundays on BBC One, while spin-off show Strictly: It Takes Two airs on weeknights on BBC Two. Both shows also stream on BBC iPlayer.

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