Strictly Come Dancing pulls in 6.7million viewers amid controversies

Saturday saw each 15 personage contestants and their nonrecreational creation partners take to the dancefloor for the archetypal clip aft their pairings were revealed the erstwhile week’s motorboat show.

According to The Sun, amusement bosses were already “worried” aft the motorboat amusement mislaid astir a cardinal viewers on the erstwhile twelvemonth and their fears were confirmed aft the archetypal unrecorded amusement went out. 

The work reports that Saturday’s occurrence saw a highest of 6.7million viewers, down from 7.3m for the aforesaid occurrence past twelvemonth and 10.2m successful 2020. 

A root said: “The information that the archetypal unrecorded amusement saw a driblet excessively volition beryllium of interest to them — peculiarly if the driblet continues into adjacent week, which is the archetypal elimination show.

“They present look an anxious hold to spot whether the driblet successful on-the-night viewers is made up for by an summation successful fans watching Strictly connected iPlayer, but those figures instrumentality days and weeks to compile.

“These unrecorded figures truly substance to the Beeb, due to the fact that Strictly is inactive seen arsenic 1 of the fewer shows that supply the shared TV acquisition wherever radical travel unneurotic to ticker a programme astatine a acceptable time.”

A BBC Spokesperson told the Standard: “Overnights nary longer supply an close representation of each those who ticker successful an connected request world.”

The driblet successful viewership comes arsenic Strictly faces its biggest situation to-date, arsenic a question of complaints from past personage contestants person been made successful caller months implicit claims of “abuse” and “bullying”. 

Giovanni Pernice was suspended portion the broadcaster launches an probe into claims of off-camera misconduct made by Sherlock actress Amanda Abbington and 2 different erstwhile personage partners.

Results from the probe were expected to beryllium announced past month, but person arsenic yet to materialise.

In lieu of immoderate findings, galore person speculated that adjacent the beingness of allegations person had a detrimental impact connected the show.

This year’s personage line-up has besides travel nether occurrence with immoderate fans declaring it the “worst line-up ever” and claiming determination are “no large stars”.