Shirley Ballas has revealed she was "absolutely mortified" that her fellow Strictly Come Dancing judges voted to send Kaye Adams home on Sunday evening.
The 62-year-old ballroom dancer has been the head judge on the hit BBC One celebrity dancing competition since 2017.
Speaking to The One Show about the first dance-off in Strictly's 20th series, which saw the Loose Women star, 59, and Bros singer Matt Goss battle it out to avoid elimination, Shirley said: "I just felt on the evening both couples made mistakes but the quality of Kaye was by far superior on that evening, and I was absolutely mortified that she left to be quite honest."
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Shirley added: "I love my fellow judges, and we're all there to do a job, but that was one they didn't quite get right." When asked if she and fellow judges come to blows over disagreements on the panel, Shirley said: "No, not at all.
"You know sometimes I'm just delighted when they can agree and it's not my job to send somebody home. But [Kaye] was, and had, the most beautiful movement. She was fluid and I like fluidity. So there you go."
Kaye was the first celebrity to be voted off the show after she failed to impress the judging panel and viewers with her performance of the Charleston to Music! Music! Music! with professional partner Kai Widdrington.
She found herself up against 54-year-old Matt who took to the dancefloor with his partner Nadiya Bychkova to perform their samba to Night Fever by the Bee Gees, which impressed the judges enough to earn him at least another week in the competition.
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