ANITA Rani was picked as one of the favourites to win this year's Strictly Come Dancing by radio presenter Jeremy Vine as he was voted off the show tonight.

The former Bradford Girls Grammar School pupil and her dance partner Gleb Savchenko made it through to the last eight couples who will dance at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom next week.

Mr Vine is the seventh celebrity to be voted out of the BBC One show after landing in the dance-off alongside Jamelia and her partner Tristan MacManus.

After he and partner Karen Clifton performed their Quickstep to Going Underground by The Jam again, the judges decided to save Jamelia.

Despite ending up with lowest scores on the leaderboard for many weeks, he managed to stay in the competition.

He revealed his pick for the winner of the show at this stage is Call The Midwife's Helen George.

"It's very tough - it could almost be any of them," he said.

"Just right now at this moment I'm going to say Helen George but I would probably change that tomorrow. And I wouldn't rule out Anita Rani."

The remaining couples go through to perform at the Blackpool special on Saturday, November 21, at 6.50pm. The Results show is on Sunday, November 22, at 7.15pm on BBC One.