Strictly the last dance for Jessie

1:49pm Monday 13th October 2008

Actress Jessie Wallace has been told to quickstep off Strictly Come Dancing after judges said her moves would be more at home on the football field.

The combination of viewer vote and judges' scores left the former EastEnders star and her partner Darren Bennett in the bottom two along with singer Heather Small and Brian Fortuna.

The couples were asked to perform a second dance and the show's judges decided Small deserved to stay.

Wallace, who played Kat Slater on the BBC soap, was the second EastEnder to be booted off the show, following in the footsteps of Gillian Taylforth.

After the first dance, Judge Arlene Phillips told her: "This dance needs a sporty delivery and sometimes you got that and you looked like you were on the dance floor and other times you looked like you were on the football field."

Wallace and Bennett received just 19 points out of a possible 40.

After the dance-off, three of the judges voted for Small to stay, leaving only Goodman in disagreement.

"I thought Jessie and Darren improved the most during that performance. Both couples made mistakes, but my vote was with them," he said.

Wallace took the defeat in good grace.

"I wish it could've been longer but that's the game," she said. "I've had a wicked time, Darren's brilliant."

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