Strictly’s Shirley Ballas hits back after viewers accused the judges of overmarking scandal-hit Wynne and Katya

STRICTLY Come Dancing caput justice Shirley Ballas has slammed fans implicit accusing the judges of overmarking Wynne Evans and Katya Jones successful the ballroom.

Wynne and Katya were the penultimate performers of the night, dancing a Quickstep to Mr Blue Sky by ELO.

The judges were afloat of praise for the opera singer's amusive bird-pooping routine, but viewers were not truthful impressed.

The regular featured Wynne getting overgarment connected his brightly coloured outfit aft sitting connected a freshly painted bench.

He ended up with insubstantial stuck to his footwear and vertebrate messiness connected his caput successful the last moments.

Fans were infuriated by the over-generous scoring arsenic helium ended up with 33 points and bagging 2 nines.

People took to societal media to explicit that helium had been overmarked - and not for the archetypal time.

We asked Shirley connected the Pride of Britain red carpet astir the claims.

The caput justice told america exclusively: "It was an outstanding dance.

"I admit everyone's opinion and erstwhile they've been successful the workplace arsenic galore years arsenic I have, 55 years, I volition perceive to what they say.

"Until then, I volition support doing my happening and what I judge in.

"He was amazing!"

The duo bushed disconnected the likes of Sarah Hadland and Vito Coppola, and Shayne Ward and Nancy Xu, and recovered themselves sitting comfortably 5th connected the leaderboard.

Taking to X - formerly Twitter - 1 wrote: "9s for Wynne is INSANE… wherefore bash they overmark him EVERY week."

Another added: "I indispensable beryllium truly missing thing with Wynne due to the fact that I deliberation he's ever overmarked. He's a beauteous feline and he's doing truly good but a 9? Same arsenic Tasha? Sarah? There's nary examination for maine but hey ho."

A 3rd tweeted: "Wynne was wholly implicit marked. Good aged Strictly stitch up arsenic usual."

Meanwhile immoderate viewers felt the judges had been told to people Wynne and Katya highly connected intent to support them successful aft the past furore.

One wrote: "9???? F*** off. Guess who @bbcstrictly are stacking the decks for. Ain’t gonna hap now. Wynne Evans needs to beryllium gone."

Controversy began aft pro spouse Katya was seen unrecorded connected TV physically removing the Welsh opera singer's manus from her waist.

She was seen moving Wynne’s manus away and snubbing his effort to high-five her.

The BBC’s payment squad got involved pursuing the incident.

Katya aboriginal confirmed that she had not felt uncomfortable and nary further enactment was taken.

Olympian Sam performed a Quickstep to Natasha Bedingfield's Unwritten alongside pro partner Nikita Kuzmin.

The brace were supported by fans aft thing "went wrong" during the unrecorded amusement and cruelly undermarked by the judges.

Sam and Nikita earned 26 retired of 40 from the judges, which didn't spell down good with fans.

Punam Krishan and Gorka Márquez lone bagged 21 points and ended up astatine the bottommost of the leaderboard.

Paul Merson became the fourth celebrity to beryllium eliminated from the 20th bid of the competition.

The erstwhile footballer failed to impressment the judges successful the dance-off against JLS star JB Gill and his creation spouse Amy Dowden.