I was on Strictly Come Dancing – bosses are trying to force Chris McCausland out of competition, claims Vanessa Feltz

VANESSA Feltz thinks that the bosses of Strictly Come Dancing are deliberately trying to unit Chris McCausland retired of the competition.

Last week saw a twist successful the format of the long-running BBC One amusement arsenic fans slammed the change.

Chris McCausland, 47, was the archetypal prima to beryllium eliminated from the dreaded Sambathon connected Strictly Come Dancing implicit the weekend.

Vanessa Feltz, 62, antecedently competed connected the amusement successful 2013 and she has present weighed successful connected the controversy.

The This Morning presenter claimed it mightiness person been a mode for execs to marque definite the comedian was the next prima to beryllium eliminated.

In a caller video posted onto her YouTube channel, the legendary TV broadcaster explained: "The bosses astatine the BBC, I mean the elder producers and each the radical successful complaint of the program, erstwhile they privation to get escaped of you, they person ways of dislodging you.

"One is the euphony that they take to marque you creation to. The different is the VT, the videotape of what you've been doing that week.

"The other, of course, is the costume you could similar a right
planet. And erstwhile you look similar a planet, radical don't ballot for you. There's each that going on.

"But present let's enactment different unexpected constituent into the mix, the samba dance-a-thon".

The erstwhile TalkTV prima insinuated that the Sambathon was a mode to 'dislodge' Chris successful the contention arsenic she said that it was "not a level playing field."

She asked: "Was it just to enactment them successful this context? Was it fair, oregon was it conscionable a mode of giving Chris the fewest points, moving him down the leaderboard and saying without saying goodbye, sayonara, farewell?

"I deliberation that that Sambathon was unfair to Chris and Diane. I did not similar it arsenic I saw it happening."

In her rant she continued: "I thought, This is not a level playing tract here. This is not fair. This is not right.

"They've introduced this. I reckon it's due to the fact that they privation to accidental goodbye to Chris.

"I don't privation these near tract obstacles flung successful his path. It's not fair. I told you, erstwhile the bosses connected Strictly person had capable of you, they person ways of making you leave."

Chris won legions of fans arsenic the archetypal unsighted contestant to vie connected the beloved prime-time ballroom and Latin competition.

Vanessa thinks the arguable portion of the amusement whitethorn person enactment the comedian astatine an contiguous disadvantage.

"It's incredibly hard for anyone to negociate a creation a opus erstwhile you don't cognize wherever the radical that you're dancing successful contention with are going," the prima suggested.

"You don't cognize wherever they're headed, you haven't seen their choreography, you haven't had a accidental to signifier altogether connected the floor.

"When you tin spot everything that's going on, it's inactive incredibly hard to debar a collision when, similar Chris, you cannot see, you bash not person the power of sight."

She added: "Can you ideate however hard that was for him and for Diane?

"Diane is trying to negotiate, to navigate, not to clang into anybody, and lo and behold, who went retired archetypal successful the Sambathon? Chris and Diane!"

The Sun has contacted Strictly Come Dancing for comment.

Strictly Come Dancing continues connected BBC One and is disposable to ticker connected iPlayer.