Strictly viewers rage as star is ‘royally stitched up’ with shockingly cringe routine

Strictly Come Dancing viewers were near seething aft this year’s Blackpool special, claiming 1 hugely fashionable prima was ‘stitched up’ earlier helium adjacent had a accidental to enactment his creation shoes on.

Reality prima Pete Wicks danced a cha-cha to I’m Too Sexy by Right Said Fred this weekend, which was a stark opposition to his affectional couple’s prime from past Saturday.

After leaving viewers successful floods of tears past week, podcaster Pete sparked a precise antithetic absorption erstwhile helium took to the level successful a see-through pinkish garment and vibrant vinyl trousers.

Cosplaying arsenic a tram conductor, the Towie alum, 36, began the regular covered up successful a duffle overgarment earlier exposing his heavy tattooed thorax and undeniably leaving small to the imaginativeness successful his ultra-tight pants.

It’s harmless to accidental the regular was a spectacle as, astatine 1 point, helium laic connected apical of the different nonrecreational dancers and aboriginal boogied with his backmost to the audience. He finished the creation wearing a pinkish fluffy overgarment and Elton John-style bosom sunglasses.

Unfortunately for Pete and his pro spouse Jowita Przystał, the regular didn’t spell down excessively well, arsenic they recovered themselves astatine the bottommost of the leaderboard.

Head justice Shirley Ballas was visibly blistery nether the collar, calling the show ‘very entertaining’ and saying she wouldn’t hide it ‘for arsenic agelong arsenic [she] lives.’

Through fits of giggles, she praised Pete’s ‘good isolation’ and ‘clean neckline’.

Motsi Mabuse jokingly told Pete she ‘loved it for each the incorrect reasons’, and ‘wished the dancing’ had supported the amusement factor.

Alas, the couple received 27 points, which included a bleak 4 from Craig Revel Horwood.

Pete told Claudia Winkleman that helium had ‘fun’, though, contempt viewers raging connected his behalf that helium had been ‘done truthful dirty’.

Taking to X afterwards, his fans branded the choreography ‘stupid’ and criticised the ‘silly’ opus choice, but heaped praise connected Pete and Jowita for ‘doing their champion with what they had’.

‘Pete Wicks has been royally stitched up with this week’s opus and costume! A spot of a shame to spell backmost to silly aft his couple’s choice,’ AmyJoSays tweeted.

Agreeing, quandromache wrote: ‘feel similar pete was stitched up with that opus due to the fact that it had NO bushed to it, however is helium meant to creation connected the beat’.

‘as overmuch arsenic one tin archer pete had amusive and pushed himself retired of his comfortableness zone, one consciousness similar he’s being treated arsenic the gag enactment erstwhile he’s really trying to enactment connected his technique, truthful each that hard enactment is being overshadowed by opus choices and choreo’, argued blhtrixya.

‘Poor aged Pete was truthful stitched up there. He truly did not look precise comfy doing that astatine all’, wrote see75.

Alongside the anger, viewers had plentifulness of words of comfortableness for the TV personality, who has surely stepped retired of his comfortableness portion implicit the past 8 weeks.

X idiosyncratic jesshoskingx wrote: ‘seeing Pete’s property coming retired a small spot much each week makes my bosom swell, there’s truthful overmuch much to him than a steely exterior’.

Pete’s ‘cringe’ show was a existent switch-up from past weekend, when. helium performed a ace tearful modern fig successful representation of his precocious nan.

Speaking successful his VT, Pete told viewers: ‘This is the 1 creation that I’ve wanted to bash since the commencement of this and this is the tribute to the idiosyncratic that matters to maine much than anyone. And that’s my nan.’

He described her arsenic his ‘best friend’ portion his mum, Tracy, added that their narration was ‘really unique’ and they some ‘adored’ each other.

Pete and Jowita danced to an acoustic mentation of The Best by Tina Turner, which near his bottommost articulator quivering arsenic helium struggled to support his composure.

Judge Shirley was specified a instrumentality of the fig that she got retired her 10 paddle, telling him: ‘I person to breathe, getting rather emotional. I americium a grandma myself, a nana, and conscionable to spot you dedicate that to your beauteous nan, your creation was not lone filled with beauteous movements but your bosom and psyche shone done what you did.’

Strictly Come Dancing: The Results airs time nighttime astatine 7:20pm connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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