Strictly: Angela Rippon on her slip during dance
Strictly Come Dancing’s Angela Rippon and professional partner Kai Widdrington fuelled the current fix claims after he defended their performance on Saturday night.
At the weekend, Kai and Angela performed the Paso Doble to Hung Up by Madonna but were put into the dance-off after Angela made a visible mistake.
However, it was newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy and his partner Lauren Oakley who were sent home by the judges.
Angela and Kai appeared on It Takes Two on Tuesday evening to discuss her routine and Kai left viewers fuming over his remarks.
When asked about their performance by Fleur East, Angela noted: “The dance was quite different from anything we’ve done before.
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“People expect it to be a strong dance with a strong body and technical footwork, but there’s passionate and timing and that’s what we sort of cracked.”
Fleur also touched on how their dance-off performance being the one thing standing the way of them going to Blackpool this week.
Kai noted: “Angela’s been there before, we were there the week before. There was no way on earth I was letting you go home even if we completely fell off the [side of the dancefloor].
“We did enough, we had a good score. I think you deserved your place at Blackpool so.”
Over the weekend, viewers of the show were furious at the how and claimed that Angela had been overmarked once again.
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Taking to their X accounts, formerly known as Twitter, @BrennanNarita noted: “Strictly is fixed. Angela’s Paso looked like he was dragging a corpse of Queen Victoria around yet it scored higher than Bobby’s. Total fix #strictly.”
Marcy Jay said: “Angela Rippon overscored by the judges again… BBC want her to get through to Blackpool. The inconsistent scoring is spoiling this series #strictly #fix.”
@alig1972 fumed: “So Craig gives Angela R and Ellie the same score #Strictly !!! Fix.”
Another added: “Actually cba to watch strictly now. The favouritism and blatant fix to get Angela to Blackpool is a f***ing joke.
“She was stomping and hunched over like a Disney villain, made a mistake but the judges were praising her like she smashed it. @bbcstrictly sort it out #strictly.”
Strictly Come Dancing continues Saturday at 6:40pm on BBC One, followed by the results on Sunday at 7:15pm on BBC One.
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