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Pete Wicks says Strictly fans are ‘playing a cruel joke’ after latest result

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December 3, 2024

Pete Wicks says Strictly fans are ‘playing a cruel joke’ after latest result

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Strictly Come Dancing star Pete Wicks has been left dumbfounded after the present’s newest outcomes.

The 36-year-old Towie star is partnered with Jowita Przystal, and has gained over many viewers together with his weak shows, and his on-screen chemistry with the professional.

Throughout week 11 of the competitors, the pair escaped elimination once more, regardless of being on the backside of the leaderboard for one more week. Followers have known as the end result a “joke”.

As a substitute Montell Douglas and Johannes Radebe and Tasha Ghouri and Aljaž Škorjanec discovered themselves up for elimination. By a unanimous resolution, Ghouri and Škorjanec had been saved, with Douglas and Radebe being despatched dwelling.

It meant that Wicks, who has routinely made errors throughout performances, made it to the competitors’s remaining 5. The TV persona has been a divisive determine for some viewers, and has admitted he has acquired loss of life threats for remaining within the competitors on the expense of different contestants.

“I’m speechless each week, particularly this week as a result of I’ve tried my finest,” he stated on Sunday (1 December) after being introduced as secure.

“I’m only a bloke attempting to study stuff; the truth that I get to take Jowita to a semi-final means a lot to me as a result of she deserves it, she deserves every part. I simply didn’t wanna let her down tonight by messing it up.”

He confessed that he couldn’t imagine the outcomes including, “I really feel like they could probably be taking part in a merciless joke on me, however I couldn’t be extra grateful. I’m so humbled by it, actually.”

Wicks was left emotional as he was introduced a semi-finalist (BBC/Strictly Come Dancing)

Viewers had been left shocked and pissed off as they wrote, “WHO is voting for Pete!? He’s a pleasant man however this can be a dancing present!!! He’s had the bottom rating for a number of weeks now! Why are deserving dancers leaving over him.”

Nonetheless, in a remark for The Unbiased, author Rachel McGrath believes that the Wicks’ progress all through the competitors is being ignored.

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‘Towie’ star could not believe the results — ‘Towie’ star couldn’t imagine the outcomes (BBC/Strictly Come Dancing)

“Should you look again at how Wicks (who was a complete dance novice) fared within the first few reveals,” she writes. “His efforts in latest episodes are nothing wanting jaw-dropping.”

Douglas’s departure implies that Ghouri, comic Chris McCausland, Wicks, Miranda star Sarah Hadland and JLS singer JB Gill have made it via to the semi-finals, which can air on 6 December.

The next week will see the grand remaining crown this 12 months’s winner of the coveted Glitterball Trophy.