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Jill dances off with BBC title |
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Friday, 24 December 2004 |
Former EastEnders star Jill Halfpenny was today celebrating her victory in BBC's Strictly Come Dancing Champion of Champions.
The Geordie actress and her dancing partner Darren Bennett took the title after strutting their stuff.
Halfpenny, 29, won the second series of the ballroom dancing show earlier this month and has since landed the lead role of Roxie in the West End musical Chicago.
Beaming after the show's host Bruce Forsyth announced the
winner, the actress said: "I want to say thank you to everybody that voted for us, thanks."
Halfpenny, who was axed from her role as Kate Mitchell in EastEnders earlier this year, was favourite to take the title and jived with Bennett to Rocking around the Christmas Tree.
In second place was Olympic gold medalist Denise Lewis, who had an ankle injury and the flu, and her professional dance partner Ian Waite.
But presenter Natasha Kaplinsky, who won the first series of the dancing show with her partner Brendan Cole, was unplaced with three other celebrities.
They were opera singer Lesley Garrett, rugby star Martin Offiah and singer turned presenter Aled Jones.
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