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Strictly fans think Shirley and Bruno are in cahoots

There is a pattern forming...

Shirley Ballas came under fire on last night’s Strictly Come Dancing for her insensitive comments to Jonnie Peacock, but fans haven’t stopped there.

They also noticed that she and Bruno are giving the exact same scores for almost every dance and viewers are starting to think they’re colluding about their marking.

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Mollie King and AJ Pritchard started Saturday night’s show with a Charleston and both Shirley and Bruno awarded it an eight, while Craig gave it a six and Darcey a seven.

The pattern continued for Susan Calman and Kevin Clifton, who performed a Strictly Ballroom inspired Paso Doble and received marks of five from Craig, six from Darcey, and eights from Shirley and Bruno.

They went on to both award Debbie McGee, Davood Ghadami, and Joe MacFadden nines, and Alexandra Burke and Gemma Atkinson 10s.

Fans were quick to notice that the pair were marking exactly the same every time and commented on Twitter that they thought something was going on.

The only discrepancy in their scores all night came when Jonnie Peacock and Oti Mabuse performed their Tron-inspired tango.

Shirley, who was blasted by fans for giving amputee Jonnie tips on how to “operate his legs” better, gave him a six, while Bruno went for a seven.

The difference of opinion didn’t go unnoticed…

Read more: Strictly fix claims resurface

Strictly has already been hit by fresh claims of a fix this weekend after The Sun claimed Susan Calman was getting higher scores to keep her in the competition longer as she was taking part in the tour.


Carena Crawford
Associate Editor (Soaps)