Former Blue singer Lee Ryan has been voted off this year's series of Strictly Come Dancing.

The Chatham-born performer failed to impress the judges with his cha-cha-cha during movie week.

They decided to save actor Charles Venn in the dance off, which was Ryan's second in as many weeks.

He was in the bottom two of the BBC1 show last week as the judges voted to send TV personality Susannah Constantine home.

He and professional dance partner Nadiya Bychkova had chosen to perform to The Power of Love from Back to the Future.

He said his biggest weakness was "forgetting my moves when I was on stage".

He said: "I've been on stage before when I've forgotten a dance routine or a lyric and as soon as you do that, you panic."

Kent's other interest in this year's Strictly, Bafta-winning presenter Dr Ranj Singh, made it through after doing a quickstep with pro Jeanette Manrara to Prince Ali from Aladdin.

Dr Ranj, who is a resident doctor on ITV’s This Morning and co-creator of CBeebies' Get Well Soon, was born and grew up in Medway.

Meanwhile, comedian Seann Walsh and dance partner Katya Jones have both issued apologies after being filmed kissing on a night out.

Walsh called it a "one-off drunken mistake".