Strictly Come Dancing was hit by critical viewers during last night's show (October 2), for a 'fake' results show after the first elimination week of the current series.
Similar complaints also surfaced last year, with a handful of fans complaining that the Sunday night results show pretended to be shown live, but was actually recorded the previous day.
And despite the complaints from last year, the format has been kept the same in 2022 - The Daily Star reports.
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During Sunday night’s episode, host Claudia Winkleman spoke with contestants about ‘tonight’ and ‘Sunday's results’ - even though the show was filmed on Saturday (October 1). And viewers were quick to point out that due to spoilers leaking each and every week, the show already knows who is set to be eliminated before the dance-off is shown traditionally on a Sunday.
Jumping on Twitter, one frustrated fan, wrote: “More rubbish from Strictly trying to pretend that tonight's show is live. It isn't!
"Still don’t get why they need to treat us like idiots by keep repeating 'So you’ve got past last night's/Saturday's show, how do you feel' - We all know it’s not live. Treat us like we have more common sense than that please.”
A second, voiced: “How many years are they gonna pretend tonight's show is live we all know it’s not," while another, echoed:“@bbcstrictly worst kept secret. All recorded on Saturday night and yet pretend it’s now a Sunday live show!”
“I love the fake live shows so much cause I can convince my family that I’m really good at guessing who goes but in reality i just saw the spoiler from last night," penned a fourth.
Sunday night's results show saw Kaye Adams and her professional dance partner Kai Widdrington become the first couple to be voted off. Following Saturday night's live show, the judges' scores were added to those from the previous week before being consolidated with the results from the public vote.
After receiving the fewest number of votes from the public, an intense dance off ensued which saw Kaye and Kai and Matt Goss and his professional dance partner Nadiya Bychkova battle it out for their place to remain in next week's show. But unfortunately it just wasn't enough for Loose Women star Kaye who wasn't saved by the judges after the intense dance off.
Although Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse all voted to save Matt and Nadia, head judge Shirley Ballas wanted to keep Kaye and Kai in the show.
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