Shirley Ballas called out for 'objectifying' Pete Wicks on Strictly Come Dancing

The TOWIE alum, 46, wore choky pinkish leather trousers and playfully swivelled his hips with Przystal during the routine.

After the performance, big Tess Daly laughed and gestured to Ballas, exclaiming: “Shirley was conscionable loving each moment, look astatine her!”

The flustered caput justice burst retired laughing and pretended to instrumentality herself, earlier saying: “Oh my God. Let maine think... I'll calm myself down.”

She went on, “You had immoderate precise bully isolation,” earlier chap justice Anton Du Beke teased: “Isolation of what?”

Ballas, 64, said, “Isolation of the neckline,” to which Du Beke said successful mock-indignation: “Neckline!”

Ballas past swatted playfully astatine her workfellow and said: “Shut up, Anton.”

The erstwhile English ballroom dancer praised Pete’s “Cuban break” during the routine, and added, grinning, “Your hips were swinging near to right,” portion mimicking the question with her hands.

“It was precise entertaining. I don't deliberation I'm ever going to hide this evening for arsenic agelong arsenic I live, darling. Well done,” she concluded.

While Wicks - who scored 27 retired of 40 - laughed and appeared flattered by Ballas’ commentary, viewers astatine location were little than impressed.

“Actually, I deliberation the 1 gripe that I person with tonight's amusement was the objectification of Pete from Shirley,” 1 wrote connected Reddit.

“Tsk tsk tsk, I americium a instrumentality of treating men and women alike arsenic objects to beryllium leered astatine and desired. Not successful my household.”

Another added: “Imagine if, alternatively of Shirley talking astir a guy's buttocks popping successful and out, we'd had Anton talking astir a woman's t**s doing the same. It's unthinkable that it wouldn't beryllium called retired immediately.”

A 3rd posted: “If Shirley were a antheral she'd person been sacked by the BBC 10 times implicit by now.”

Ballas further complimented Wicks’ show during an quality connected ITV chat show, Loose Women, connected Monday.

She said of his choky outfit: "I deliberation it got everybody into a spot of a flutter. The happening astir Pete is helium gives 100 per cent.

“When helium started astatine the opening of the amusement arsenic with astir of them you don't cognize wherever radical are going to spell connected their journey. What I emotion astir him is helium embraces thing that is thrown astatine him.

Ballas added: "But helium did drawback america each disconnected guard, I person to say. Motsi (Mabuse) was giving maine a small (prod) nether the table."