‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Judge Faces Fresh Calls For Sacking Over Previous Racist Remark
deadline.comStrictly Come Dancing’s bad week of PR just got a bit worse, with one of the show’s most popular judges now being investigated for a remark he made while working as a dancer on the show.
One of the UK’s most popular TV entertainment shows with versions in more than 60 territories around the world, Strictly has weathered a mushrooming number of claims from former contestants that the family-friendly, happy atmosphere on screen enjoyed by millions of viewers is not reflected in the behaviour by the professional dancers to their partners behind the scenes.
Now The Sun reports that one of the Strictly’s most popular faces, Anton Du Beke – who was a dancer on the show from its beginning in 2004, before being made a judge in 2021 – is facing fresh criticism for his remark made in 2009 when he was competing on the show.
When faced with his celebrity partner Laila Rouass’s spray tan, he called her “a p***” (a derogatory term for someone of south-Asian heritage) and Rouass walked off.
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