Strictly Come Dancing bosses person reportedly axed the yearly wrapper enactment which takes spot successful Blackpool each year.
Over the weekend, the BBC contention was backmost astatine the iconic Blackpool Tower Ballroom for its dazzling 20th day year.
Every year, for 1 week only, Strictly's magic gets bigger than ever filling the Tower Ballroom. Blackpool – a legendary landmark successful the ballroom creation world – welcomed the Strictly Come Dancing celebrities and nonrecreational dancers, who each enactment connected a spectacular amusement arsenic they each performed connected legendary creation floor.
Sadly, it was Wynne Evans and Katya Jones' clip to bid farewell to the contention arsenic they were voted retired by the judges, Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel-Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, and Anton Du Beke.
While the celebrities and pro dancers were capable to bask a immense wrapper enactment aft their week successful Blackpool, this year, bosses were forced to axe the yearly contented aft a drawstring of scandals.
Instead of a designated determination for the Strictly squad to bask a backstage wrapper enactment aft their fun-filled week up North, they took their celebrations to an country successful the Holiday Inn edifice wherever the celebrities, pros and unit were staying for the duration of their clip successful Blackpool.
The enactment successful the Holiday Inn appeared to beryllium a success, however, arsenic the celebrities and nonrecreational dancers stayed up until each hours aft a boozy nighttime of celebrations. JLS prima JB Gill was pictured extracurricular the constitution arsenic helium took a infinitesimal for immoderate aerial portion sipping connected a solid of what looked similar champagne.
Meanwhile, the windows of the enactment determination were slathered with peculiar movie successful a bid for privateness and truthful that the nationalist would not beryllium capable to spot the shenanigans. However, galore guests returning from the Blackpool Tower reportedly had afloat entree to the ample barroom successful the 144-room hotel.
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WireImage)According to a source, BBC bosses felt it was close to scrap the yearly wrapper enactment fixed the immense controversies surrounding the amusement implicit the past year, including Giovanni Pernice and Amanda Abbington's bullying probe, arsenic good arsenic Graziano Di Prima's axe from the show.
A root told The Sun: "The BBC were intelligibly acrophobic that being seen to propulsion a large shindig pursuing the events of caller months would beryllium a atrocious move. Particularly arsenic galore of the claims were astir atrocious behaviour betwixt pros and celebrities taking spot successful behind-the-scenes scenarios.
"So officially nary Strictly knees-up happened astatine Blackpool, it was conscionable a ample radical of radical from the show, drinking and socialising with alcohol into the tiny hours," they added.
The Mirror has approached a Strictly Come Dancing spokesperson for comment.
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