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Strictly viewers thrilled to discover Stacey Dooley’s super-cool celeb pal in the studio audience

Viewers are so excited to learn they are pals!

Stacey Dooley was the epitome of elegance as she danced to Moon River, one of the most romantic songs in movie history, tonight.

She and partner Kevin impressed all the judges with their waltz.

Stacey and Kevin in full-on romantic mode (Credit: BBC)

But viewers were a little more excited to see she has a very cool celeb friend, who was in the studio audience to cheer her on.

Jodie Comer, the actress who plays assassin Villanelle in BBC One’s smash hit Killing Eve, was there!

Jodie supporting her pal with her mum (Credit: BBC)

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The actress has left viewers of the dark comedy thriller enthralled over the past couple of months as Russian murderess.

The series came to an end last Saturday, with Villanelle stabbed by her nemesis, spy Eve.

Jodie in assassin mode (Credit: BBC)

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In real life, it seems Jodie is a big pal of Strictly favourite Stacey Dooley.

The thesp, who also played the other woman in Doctor Foster, revealed on Twitter earlier that she would be in attendance.

She shared a picture of her and two female companions with caption #TeamStacey

Stacey said: “See you later my sis.” Awww.

Fans of both shows on Twitter were pretty beside themselves to discover this friendship.

Lots of people made the same joke about her being there to kill someone, mostly Craig or Danny…

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Kaggie Hyland
Editor-in-Chief