Chris McCausland gives moving acceptance speech after 2024 Strictly Come Dancing win

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Chris McCausland gives moving acceptance speech after 2024 Strictly Come Dancing winSource Strictly Come Dancing, BBC

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00:00Oh, my God!

00:02That is...

00:04CHEERING

00:08We need to know, Chris,

00:10how does it feel

00:12to be our winners?

00:14Um...

00:16It's astonishing. Yeah.

00:18It's, um, you know...

00:20I...

00:22I don't know what to say.

00:24This... Oh, it's...

00:26CHEERING

00:28And, um...

00:30I honestly thought I could go out

00:32in the first week or two, and, um...

00:34And I know no-one went out in the first week,

00:36but I thought I still could.

00:38And...

00:40Just... We've just lasted and lasted,

00:42and she has got so much out of me.

00:44And this...

00:46I mean, she deserves this so much.

00:48She's just... Every day...

00:50CHEERING

00:52Every day.

00:54She's just...

00:56Positivity.

00:58She's belief.

01:00And she is just honestly one of the easiest

01:02people to be funny with that I've ever met.

01:04And I'll just...

01:06You know, unless she changes her number,

01:08she's stuck with me.

01:10And this is for her,

01:12and it's for everyone out there that just

01:14thought... Got told they couldn't do something

01:16or thought they couldn't do it,

01:18and it just shows opportunity

01:20and support

01:22and just determination.

01:24Just anything can happen, you know?

01:26Diane,

01:28you said that your team name

01:30was winning

01:32isn't everything.

01:34So I ask you now,

01:36it's not bad, is it?

01:38It's pretty good.

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