Strictly’s Thomas Skinner was snubbed by his skilled accomplice after skipping the 2025 last

Earlier this week, the BBC confirmed that the businessman wouldn’t seem within the last attributable to a ‘prior dedication’.

Nevertheless, it was later reported that Skinner was taking authorized motion towards the broadcaster, believing he was unfairly eradicated in Week 2 after failing to safe sufficient votes to maintain him out of the underside two.

Skinner himself commented on the matter hours earlier than tonight’s finale, claiming he had e mail proof that the end result was ‘unfair’.

In an additional assertion to Metro, the BBC merely stated: ‘Strictly Come Dancing’s public voting is strong and independently monitored and verified to make sure full accuracy.’

And within the newest growth after the 2025 collection got here to an finish, it appears even Skinner’s skilled accomplice is eager to maneuver on.

Skinner teamed up with Amy Dowden this 12 months, and followers have been devastated when she was booted so early.

Following Karen and Carlos’ victory, the Welsh choreographer took to Instagram to share a collection of images with the brand new champions, calling the ultimate three “unbelievable.”

“To my expensive brother, I’m so pleased with you @gkx_carlos. I understand how a lot you’ve got liked this collection, studying, rising and displaying your true genuine self! You wished this for @kazcarney,” Dowden’s caption learn.

‘Kaz you have been radiant, thanks for being your self, stunning dance however a beautiful soul! So glad for each of you! Our new champions of 2025.

‘Final 12 months Carlos and I have been fairly emotional many evenings and I all the time informed him that 2025 seems like a very good 12 months and I used to be proper, what a 12 months [sic]’.

Dowden, who joined the present in 2017, made no point out of Skinner. Her solely nod to her personal participation in this system this 12 months was her closing remark: ‘@bbcstrictly thanks for an additional unbelievable collection and for supporting me by way of and thru xxxxx love you all deeply xxxx’.

Followers have been eager to assist Dowden within the feedback, with @deb_m_66 writing: ‘So unhappy you could not dance with a accomplice within the last. You deserve higher.’

Whereas she carried out once more within the group routine, it was in fact with out Skinner.

Nonetheless, he has continued to sing her praises since leaving the present, even calling out Dowden in his assertion that he wished to sue the BBC.

“The very first thing I wish to say is that this… I spoke to my beautiful dance accomplice Amy Dowden to ensure she was okay with me not being there,” he wrote forward of the finale on X. “She is an effective individual and a very good good friend now, I’d by no means let her down.”

Skinner went on to say that he was initially ‘buzzed’ about collaborating in Strictly, however has since requested to see proof of official voting figures after receiving ‘an nameless e mail claiming to be from a BBC director of statistics, saying [he’d] acquired much more votes than it appeared, and that was fallacious.”

Though Skinner claims his e mail has been ‘verified’, the BBC in an announcement to Metro referred to as his accusations concerning the vote ‘utterly unfounded’.

There is not any denying that this Strictly season has been crammed with highs and lows, with Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman emotionally asserting their departures following a number of withdrawals attributable to contestant accidents.

Skinner’s time on the present alone was overshadowed by backlash from the beginning.

Initially, followers criticized his signing attributable to his affiliation with right-wing figures equivalent to US Vice President JD Vance.

He additionally discovered himself in the midst of a press storm and dishonest scandal within the run-up to his tenure on the dance flooring.

Some viewers have been notably unimpressed together with his dancing abilities, with one Reddit consumer, Thick_Ad_8885, saying he appeared like one of many “worst contestants on this present” and “did not actually care about it.”

After his brief and turbulent time on the present got here to an finish, Skinner referred to as out his critics in a prolonged X-post and shared his regrets about ever becoming a member of the collection.

‘I want I would by no means achieved it. Strictly, I by no means handed [sic] Let’s be sincere concerning the invoice for that present. And it has solely irritated me. Continued abuse,” he wrote on the time.

Nevertheless, he shall be again on actuality TV over the Christmas interval as a part of the Superstar Apprentice line-up. He first appeared within the actuality present Lord Sugar in 2019, the place he completed in ninth place.

Within the first episode of the star-studded particular, he turns into visibly emotional as he returns to the place the place his TV profession started.

In the course of the present he stated: ‘I do not truly get upset; I did this present six years in the past and this present modified my life. I am right here once more.’

A model of this text was first revealed on December 18.

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