Kate Silverton has said she is “in mourning” after being eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing.
The newsreader and her dance partner Aljaz Skorjanec were shown the door after a dance-off against cricketer Graeme Swann and Oti Mabuse during Blackpool Week.
Silverton said on spin-off show It Takes Two: “We are in mourning.
“It was very strange not to be turning up.”
The 48-year-old told host Zoe Ball she had thought they had done better and that it was a “bit of a shocker” when she discovered they had ended up at the bottom.
She said: “It was a bit odd actually, because we had the lovely comments and then we had to go and do the interviews and things, and then when I came back I thought, ‘Oh we’ve done really really well’ and then when I came I went, ‘Oh we are still in the bottom two!’”
However, Silverton said she had gone out on a high.
“Leave the party while you are having fun,” she said. “And it was just the best weekend, it really was.”
The star fulfilled a promise to jump in the sea after making it through to the live show in Blackpool.
She said because she had a sore rib, she thought of her chilly dip as “an ice bath”.
“We did it safely can I stress that,” she said. “Aljaz was watching. I went in my gym gear and I just sat in the shallows.”
She said Strictly had been an amazing experience.
“I just loved it,” she said.
Strictly Come Dancing continues on BBC One.