Strictly Come Dancing returned to our screens for the second live show on Saturday night - but viewers have all made the same complaint about head judge Shirley Ballas.
Fans have accused the judge of favouring certain contestants over others, and slammed her for being particularly harsh on comedian Ellie Taylor and singer Fleur East.
After watching their performances, Shirley told the radio host: “There were too many foot faults for me…It never really got enough flow.”
Meanwhile, she told Ellie : “I can appreciate the shape when you were in plain hold, it had some decent footwork, but for me it lacked completely the essence of Pasodoble…It just missed it for me.”
The head judge scored Fleur a six and Ellie a five, but fans have criticised her marking criteria after weaker performers Tony Adams and Matt Goss received similar scores.
Strictly viewers took to Twitter to accuse Shirley of under-marking the female celebs, as one fan accused her of having “an issue with young attractive female contestants every year”.
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Another quizzed: “Can we get rid of Shirley? She’s such a double standard hypocrite. She’s given Fleur the same score as TONY! Come on! She’s targeting the younger female dancers and she does it EVERY YEAR! It’s a joke.”
“Shirley plotting how she can vote all women off the show as soon as possible,” quipped a viewer.
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The comments didn’t stop there with one fan even saying: “Lmao shock at Shirley Ballas favouring the males and scoring Tony a 6 then scoring Ellie Taylor a 5 only took to week 2 and she's picked the female she hates and will undermark already.”
It comes as the judge was also accused of making inappropriate comments toward Will Mellor.
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At various points throughout the show, the ballroom dancer was heard saying that the Hollyoaks actor was ‘easy on the eye.’
Shirley’s senior position has prompted some fans to brand her comments as ‘inappropriate.’
One fan tweeted: "It’s a bit uncomfortable to watch Shirley Ballas and Motsi Mabuse drooling over some of the male contestants in their feedback. If it was the male judges on female contestants, everyone would be calling them out on it."
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However, other fans defended her with one saying: "I don't always agree with your scores as I don't with any of the judges but I think you're lovely! You were right about Kaye. She should've stayed. She was better than Matt and her dance had more content."
The judge came under fire on Saturday night, but do you think Shirley is under-marking the female celebrities? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below .
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