Strictly Come Dancing star compares 'cringy' Pete Wicks to Ann Widdecombe

The 37-year-old erstwhile The Only Way Is Essex star’s Cha Cha to Right Said Fred’s I’m Too Sexy didn’t spell down peculiarly good with the judges, receiving a people of 27 retired of 40.

Despite uncovering himself astatine the bottommost of the person board, Wicks and his pro spouse Jowita Przystal managed to debar the dance-off, but erstwhile pro Jordan thinks “it’s his time”.

Viewers noted that Wicks - who sported immoderate precise eye-catching pinkish trousers for the fig - looked embarrassed, with immoderate questioning whether amusement bosses were intentionally portraying him arsenic a “joke” act.

Jordan - who served arsenic a pro connected the BBC creation contention from 2006 until 2015, winning successful 2009 with quality presenter Chris Hollins - had different take.

Speaking connected behalf of Mecca Bingo, she explained: “There is different mode of looking astatine it. It mightiness beryllium a lawsuit of due to the fact that he's not a bully dancer, they request to marque thing retired of him to support him successful the competition.

“It's not incorrect to marque idiosyncratic a spot of a joke. Let’s instrumentality Ann Widdecombe [MP who was the ninth to beryllium eliminated aft competing successful 2010] for example, travel on, she was ne'er going to bash a large dance, truthful they made much of a gag of her, which worked, past the radical loved that, and she was amazing.”

“I conscionable deliberation with Pete, he's a spot cringy. I'm conscionable disquieted that they're going to marque excessively overmuch of that, and helium volition past look backmost connected his clip connected Strictly and deliberation ‘I privation I didn't bash that. I privation I did much due dances.’”.

She continued: “I deliberation radical are realising that helium was truly atrocious this week, truthful it volition get to the constituent wherever radical are going to get bored of each this gyrating of his hips, and it volition get to the point, I don't cognize if it's adjacent week, depending connected what he's doing, if helium does a truly bully beauteous number, I consciousness he's going to spell due to the fact that radical volition deliberation helium doesn't request the votes anymore, truthful possibly that's what's going to happen.”

“I deliberation it's his clip to beryllium successful the bottommost two. If helium finds himself successful the bottommost two, he's going to spell due to the fact that helium is decidedly the weakest dancer compared to everyone else.”