He won a standing ovation from the audience and enough warm words to fuel an Oscars speech. Sergeant said the experience had been "strictly fantastic" and thanked the judges for the extraordinary way they "whipped up public support" in his...

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An estimated 10 million people tuned in last night to witness the end of an infatuation. Unlikely screen idol John Sergeant waltzed off Strictly Come Dancing to the strain of Norah Jones's "Come Away With Me", bringing to an almost elegant end a...
For the best part of an hour there was a John Sergeant-shaped hole in BBC1 last night. And since fans of Strictly Come Dancing have become highly enamoured of the unique geometry of the former ITN political editor, that gap was never going to be an...
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