Kelvin’s friends and family had every reason to celebrate his Strictly win (Picture: Rex/BBC)
Strictly Come Dancing champion Kelvin Fletcher shared that his family and friends hit the jackpot after betting he would lift the Glitterball.
The Emmerdale star, 38, rose to fame on ITV soap Emmerdale between 1996 and 2016, before winning the 2019 series of Strictly alongside professional partner Oti Mabuse after being a last-minute replacement for an injured Jamie Laing.
Despite his initial excitement, the actor revealed that his chances of reaching the final were deemed doubtful.
‘Although Ladbroke’s had me down as the favourite in the final, at the outset my win was so unlikely that a few of my friends had done very well by putting bets on me before the series began,’ he said.
Well it looks like Kelvin’s family and friends had the last laugh as they all ended up a lot more than they bargained for in their bank account.
‘My brother got odds of 16–1, which translated into a nice pay-out. One of my friends benefited from my win to the tune of £17,000,’ he added to The Mirror.
Kelvin was a stand-in for Jamie Lang in series 17 (Picture: PA)
Kelvin currently lives on a farm with his family (Picture: BBC)
Kelvin’s dancing days are behind him as the Andy Sugden star currently owns a farm in the Peak District with wife Liz, where the couple live with their four children.
The pair share daughter Marnie, five, son Milo, three, and earlier this year welcomed twin boys, Maximus and Mateusz.
Kelvin often shares updates of life on the farm to his social media accounts, many of which involve sweet family snaps in the great outdoors.
The Fletcher family’s farm life was previously showcased in TV series Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure, after the family moved from Manchester to the countryside during lockdown.
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The six-part series saw the family ‘de-camp to the countryside’ for the summer to build a new life on their 120-acre farm on the edge of the Peak District National Park.
Last year, Kelvin labelled comparisons between Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure and Jeremy Clarkson’s Clarkson’s Farm as ‘unfair’, insisting that theirs is a ‘completely different show’.
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