By Jennifer Ruby Senior Showbiz Correspondent For The Daily Mail
Published: 22:00 GMT, 24 February 2019 | Updated: 22:12 GMT, 24 February 2019
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She won viewers’ hearts and had the judges in tears as she was crowned the first winner of The Greatest Dancer.
Now 14-year-old rising star Ellie Fergusson says she plans to give half of her £50,000 prize money to her dance teacher before putting herself through dance school.
The Scottish teenager was the surprise winner of the BBC1 talent show on Saturday, beating double act Harry Smallman and Eleiyah Navis, who were mentored by Cheryl Tweedy.
Ellie Fergusson, 14, was watched by a peak of 4.5million viewers as she lifted The Greatest Dancer trophy on Saturday night
The Scottish teenager was the surprise winner of the BBC1 talent show on Saturday, beating double act Harry Smallman and Eleiyah Navis, who were mentored by Cheryl Tweedy
She now has the chance to appear on Strictly Come Dancing as part of her prize. And she is set on sharing the prize money equally with her teacher and choreographer, Jenni Inglis at Edinburgh Dance Academy, who helped with all of her routines.
‘I want to give half of it to my dance teacher and I want to use it to help me get to dance school,’ she said.
Earlier in the series, she said: ‘Dancing is everything to me. It takes up
