Strictly Come Dancing followers had been left shaking their heads as Shirley Ballas kicked off the stay present with an 'awkward gaffe'.
The BBC ballroom dancing present returned for its second week on Saturday evening, as 15 celebrities and their companions compete for the Glitterball trophy. The twentieth sequence of Strictly is being hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, with Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke returning as judges, stories the Mirror.
The couples took to the stage tonight for his or her second efficiency in entrance of the judges, as their destiny now lies within the publics arms. Nevertheless, because the hosts tried to speak to Shirley, the decide left a chronic awkward pause as if she had zoned out - and the awkward second wasn't missed by followers.
Instantly noticing the cringe-inducing second, one fan tweeted: “Yoohoo! Get up Shirley." A second wrote: “Shirley unsure the place she is there," as one other stated: "Nicely that wasn’t awkward."
“Shirley’s delayed response is me 24/7,” one other fan joked. "Shirley is me when anybody asks me something in group conferences," a fellow fan chimed. One savage viewer requested: "Has Shirley been on the sherry?"
Whereas there was no public vote final week, the stress is now on to get their steps proper because the cellphone traces are open after the present for followers to vote for his or her favorite routines.
The contestants' scores from final week have been carried over to this weekend and shall be mixed with the viewers' votes, with the bottom scoring couples going face to face within the first dance off of 2022. The primary outcomes present of the sequence begins on Sunday 2 October at 7.15pm, starting after the Antiques Roadshow.
The 2 couples with the fewest votes then go head-to-head within the dance-off, delivering one other rendition of their efficiency from the stay present. The judges then determine which couple they want to save, and within the occasion of a tie head decide Shirley Ballas is given the casting vote.
Not one of the duos will wish to be the primary to go away, however considered one of them shall be waltzing off into the sundown when the outcomes are introduced tomorrow night. Saturday’s stay present adopted final Friday's launch present, the place the 2022 line-up of stars had been formally paired up.
The launch was adopted by Saturday's first stay present, wherein actor Will Mellor and wildlife presenter Hamza Yassin topped the leaderboard after spectacular debut routines. The Strictly spin-off It Takes Two can be again on screens, hosted by Rylan Clark and former skilled dancer Janette Manrara.
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