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<\/p>\nStrictly Come Dancing is back this weekend, but can you look back previous winners for tips on who might claim the Glitter Ball Trophy this year?<\/p>\n
Well, the short answer is no \u2013 indeed if you start the show as favourite, the odds are massively against you winning the show \u2013 less than 20% of favourites have won the show in its 16-year history.<\/p>\n
Since the first show back in 2003, just three favourites have taken the honours, and they have all been female \u2013 Natasha Kaplinsky, Alesha Dixon and Kara Tointon.<\/p>\n
We look back trough each year at every series to see how the favourites did\u2026<\/p>\n
Series 1 \u2013 2003 \u2013 Newsreader Kaplinsky took the honours with Brendan Cole \u2013 who himself would go on to become one of the most famed professional dancers, but she was tipped from the start to do well and remember there was just eight couples in the first series.<\/p>\n
Series 2 \u2013 2004 \u2013 Geordie actress Jill Halfpenny won the second series, now involving ten couples, dancing with Darren Bennett, but it was Olympian Denise Lewis \u2013 who finished runner-up, who began as favourite along with Casualty star Sarah Manners.<\/p>\n
Series 3 \u2013 2005 \u2013 The first sportsman to take the honours was cricketing legend Darren Gough, who caused a real shock with his win alongside Lilia Kopylova. He held off long-time favourite Zoe Ball and athlete Colin Jackson.<\/p>\n
Series 4 \u2013 2006 \u2013 Another shock and another sportsman taking the win with Mark Ramprakash winning overall alongside Karen Hardy. The former England cricketer beat huge pre-show favourite Emma Bunton, with the Spice Girl finishing third with Rugby ace Matt Dawson in second.<\/p>\n
Series 5 \u2013 2007 \u2013 The favourite comes in for only the second time, with Alesha Dixon claiming the title with her partner Matthew Cutler, fending off Gethin Jones and Matt Di Angelo \u2013 although the early withdrawal of Kelly Brook also helped.<\/p>\n
Series 6 \u2013 2008 \u2013 Actor Tom Chambers ended up being a hugely popular winner with Camilla Dallerup after a brilliant last dance, but he was far from the favourite with Rachel Stevens and Lisa Snowdon the favoured celebrities along with Rugby star Austin Healey.<\/p>\n
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Series 7 \u2013 2009 \u2013 Another huge shock came in 2009 with sports reporter Chris Hollins providing a big upset in the final, when he and Ola Jordan took victory over favoured former Hollyoaks duo of Ali Bastian and Ricky Whittle.<\/p>\n
Series 8 \u2013 2010 \u2013 A close call in 2010 but favourite Kara Tointon brought it home. Having already showed his prowess in winning a Sports Relief special in 2008, should secured victory with Artem Chigvintsev, seeing off Matt Baker in the final.<\/p>\n
Series 9 \u2013 2011 \u2013 Victors Harry Judd and Aliona Vilani were hugely popular, but the McFly drummer was not seen as one of the favourites before the series with the likes of Holly Valance, Jason Donovan and Chelsee Healey attracting the headlines \u2013 but it was Judd who came through the pack to win.<\/p>\n
Series 10 \u2013 2012 \u2013 The fist sportsman to take the honours since 2006, gymnast Louis Smith won with Flavia Cacace but pre-show all the talk had been about former Westlife singer Nicky Byrne and Girls Aloud star Kimberley Walsh.<\/p>\n
Series 11 \u2013 2013 \u2013 Model Abbey Clancy was far from favourite at the start but she claimed the Glitter Ball with Aljaz Skorjanec. Singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who had been considered favourite early on failed to make the final as news anchor Susanna Reid claimed the runner-up spot.<\/p>\n
Seires 12 \u2013 2014 \u2013 Caroline Flack took the win with the popular Pasha Kovalev, but she was never considered one of the favourites as she fended off popstars Frankie Bridge, Simon Webbe and Pixie Lott to take the crown.<\/p>\n
Series 13 \u2013 2015 \u2013 Wanted star Jay McGuiness too the win with Aliona Vilani, but it was another pop star who was tipped for the win in the shape of Peter Andre, however the Australian didn\u2019t even make the final. McGuiness beat soap actresses Kellie Bright and Georgia May Foote in the finale.<\/p>\n
Series 14 \u2013 2016 \u2013 The biggest shock in Strictly history came in 2016. Early favourite Will Young withdrew, but then going into the final \u2013 it was seen as a battle between Danny Mac and Louise Redknapp, but no it went to presenter Ore Oduba who took the win with Joanne Clifton despite being a huge outsider of the three.<\/p>\n
Series 15 \u2013 2017 \u2013 And another favourite fails\u2026and it was another big shock. JLS\u2019 Aston Merrygold and Alexandra Burke were expected to push for the title, but the challenge did not come and in the end former Hollyoaks star Gemma Atkinson was pipped at the post by Casualty actor Joe McFadden.<\/p>\n
Series 16 \u2013 2018 \u2013 Once again there was no joy for the pre-show favourites, after impressing in the launch show DJ Vick Hope overtook Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts in the betting, but in the end nether prevailed as Stacey Dooley took the win with her partner Kevin Clifton \u2013 who finally got his hands on the Glitter Ball trophy after a number of near misses.<\/p>\n
Series 17 \u2013 2019 \u2013 Favourite going into the show this year is Karim Zeroual, who will be dancing with Amy Dowden.<\/p>\n
OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton commented: \u201cIt is nearly a decade since the pre-show favourite has now taken the honours in Strictly Come Dancing when Kara Tointon taking the title dancing with Artem Chigvintsev.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been a lot of near misses along the way but now the pressure is on children\u2019s TV presenter Karim Zeroual, as he has been made favourite. He also has the extra burden knowing no man who has been favourite has ever gone on to win the show.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, the three soap stars Emma Barton, Catherine Tyldesley and Kelvin Fletcher \u2013 who hail from the three big hitters Coronation Street, Eastenders and Emmerdale \u2013 have been attracting a lot of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Strictly Come Dancing Odds 2019:<\/strong> Strictly Come Dancing is back this weekend, but can you look back previous winners for tips on who might claim the Glitter Ball Trophy this year? Well, the short answer is no \u2013 indeed if you start the show as favourite, the odds are massively against you winning the show \u2013 less than 20% of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":5997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[5046],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[5215,7153,7198,10012,10014,2553,10013,1996,2036,7242,3523,7252,6503,7162,10011,10015,7828,2502,2891,2685],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/5998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKarim Zeroual \u2013 3\/1
\nEmma Barton \u2013 4\/1
\nAlex Scott \u2013 9\/2
\nCatherine Tyldesley \u2013 7\/1
\nKelvin Fletcher \u2013 7\/1
\nSaffron Barker \u2013 9\/1
\nDev Griffin \u2013 14\/1
\nEmma Weymouth \u2013 18\/1
\nChris Ramsey \u2013 20\/1
\nWill Bayley \u2013 20\/1
\nMichelle Visage \u2013 28\/1
\nJames Cracknell \u2013 40\/1
\nAnneka Rice \u2013 66\/1
\nMike Bushell \u2013 66\/1
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