Ex-Strictly star accuses judges of planning scores in advance in fix row

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Former Strictly Come Dancing professional James Jordan has accused the show’s judges of planning their scores in advance after this weekend’s show.The 45 year old has got involved in the ongoing “fix” row that surrounds the TV show, as he admitted he didn’t agree with a lot of the judge's ratings on Saturday, 21 October.Taking to X, formally known as Twitter, James said that it was like judges, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke and Shirley Ballas “watch the rehearsals.” He tweeted: “It’s almost like the judges watch the rehearsals - decide their scores - but when things go wrong, they don’t know what to do.” One of the moments that seemed to grab James’ attention was when Nigel Harman made several mistakes in his routine and even admitted to “making up” part of it, but still got relatively high scores.

Nigel and his partner Katya Jones scored 29 out of 40, higher than some of the celebrities who made fewer mistakes than him.

After Nigel got his scores, James penned: “So once again, you can mess up the whole routine and get those scores.” He then posted a number of laughing face emojis, before adding the judges scores and asking: “Do you agree with the judges?” James then shared his own thoughts on Nigel and Katya’s routine as he wrote: “As you all know, I’m a massive Nigel fan, BUT it was a bit of a dance disaster.

He’s great when out of frame - WHICH IS NOT FOXTROT.The got to the foxtrot, which was none existent, unfortunately - wrong steps and off time.