Layton and Nikita tear up together taking in final Strictly moments

Layton and Nikita tear up together taking in final Strictly momentsSource: Strictly Come Dancing, BBC

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00:00 It's been a hell of a ride.

00:02 The fact that I'm actually sat here now in the final,

00:06 it's something to be super proud of.

00:08 Oh!

00:10 APPLAUSE

00:11 Oh, yeah!

00:12 Your final finalists, Slayton and Nikita!

00:15 I'm sorry, but...

00:17 I mean, you're dressed like finalists tonight, I have to say.

00:20 They haven't even started to wear their ice already.

00:22 Slayton, talk to me.

00:23 OK, you're a performer, you're used to pre-show nerves,

00:26 but what are your nerves like heading into the final?

00:29 Do you know what? I feel...

00:32 Just looking back at all of that,

00:33 it just, like, totally puts it into perspective.

00:35 I feel, like, so much at peace with just how everything has gone.

00:41 I kind of hoped to obviously be in the final,

00:43 like, that was my hope, but, like, it just...

00:46 I never thought it would be a reality,

00:48 though, as the week's gone by, I thought,

00:49 "Oh, maybe this is not going to give what I thought it was going to give."

00:52 But, honestly, the fact that we've managed to, like, complete it,

00:56 like, we've got here, it just is amazing.

00:58 So I'm genuinely just so...

01:01 Obviously, I'm nervous, I'm always nervous,

01:02 but I just want to go out there and just enjoy every second of it,

01:05 because this is it, you know?

01:07 You've got many reasons to enjoy it.

01:08 I mean, Lakita, it's your first ever final on Strictly.

01:11 Woo-woo!

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