Strictly Come Dancing viewers were left confused as the judges awarded the contestants with high scores – with some calling the panel ‘unfair’
Strictly: Wynne Evans and Katya Jones perform salsa routine
Strictly Come Dancing fans expressed their disappointment on Saturday night, criticising the judges for some of the scores they awarded to the contestants.
The BBC show is in full swing with the remaining celebrities entering their sixth week in the competition. Last Sunday, viewers were taken aback when JB Gill found himself in the dance-off, despite earning a decent score of 30.
However, the judges chose to save him over sports star Paul Merson, making him the fourth person to exit the competition, joining Tom Dean, Toyah Willcox and Nick Knowles.
This weekend another contestant’s journey on the BBC show will conclude, although each is hopeful that their spooky performances will impress the viewers at home.
However, fans weren’t pleased with some of the scores given for routines, particularly those of Wynne Evans and JB Gill, reports the Mirror.
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Wynne and Katya performed a Salsa to the song Canned Heat by Jamiroquai and earned themselves a score of 31, putting them on par with Pete Wicks and Jowita Przysta.
JB and Amy took to the dance floor for a Foxtrot to Dancing in The Moonlight and earned a high score of 32.
People quickly took to Twitter to critique the judges, accusing them scoring people too high.
One viewer remarked: “Wynne well overmarked IMHO It was more 25 or 26 and definitely not a 31. Judges have the people they like and they pick up an extra point per judge. Seems unfair to me but it’s not a dance show anymore.”
One person chimed in, stating: “Wynne getting overmarked again.”
Another disgruntled tweeter commented: “The scoring this year has been all over the place, specifically for the men… They are all overmarked every single week.”
“Both JB and Wynne were massively massively overmarked. Way way too much messing around and losing all technical aspects. An absolute joke,” vented another.
Someone else commented: “A 9 for that? Overmarked to keep him safe.”
One fan tweeted: “Wynne and Katya overmarked again. Was I watching another dance?!”
Despite scoring two points higher than last week, JB could still find himself in the bottom two come Sunday evening.
JB discussed his dance-off experience on It Takes Two earlier in the week, stating: “I mean we got 30! So it wasn’t like we got a shammy score! Of course, it’s always disappointing I think when you put so much work into training and obviously you work hard in the week like everybody does to not have the result that you want which is to go through to the next week, to find yourself in the dance-off is always a little bit disheartening.”
The contestant continued: “It’s not what you’re looking for but the level of competition this year is very very high. You can see that the standard is right up there so it’s one of those things. It’s part of the show and of course, it meant that I got to do the dance again.”
BBC viewers will be on tenterhooks until Sunday night to find out if JB has pulled out all the stops to steer clear of a second dance-off.
Strictly Come Dancing continues Saturday on BBC One from 6:25pm
