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Strictly's Anton Du Beke makes plea amid elimination leaks

The judge appeared on Loose Women on Tuesday

TV and film writer
October 18, 2022

Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke has made a plea to the spoiler who has been leaking the elimination results prior to Sunday's results show over the past two weeks. 

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Appearing on ITV's Loose Women on Tuesday, the judge asked whoever is spoiling the results programme for other viewers to "please stop".

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Addressing viewers of the chat show, he said: "It gets on my nerves. Please stop. You know who you are, please stop. Don't do it. Why would you do it?"

When asked by panellist Linda Robson if the person releasing the results is an audience member, Anton responded: "Nobody knows who it is. The audience are all in it together. Knowledge is power and all that sort of stuff. Everyone has an agreement, we won't say anything so I don't know who does it.

"They call you a spoiler for a reason, because you're a spoiler. Don't do it. But then, of course, the other option is, don't read it." 

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He added: "Try to stop spoiling it please because people don't want to know."

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Anton Du Beke appeared on Loose Women on Tuesday

Despite the results show being aired on Sunday evenings, the actual recording takes place directly after the live broadcast on Saturday night.

After a brief break, the judges, dancers and presenters all return to the stage wearing different outfits to film the results show. 

Fans of the show have taken to Twitter to express their outrage over the leaked results, with one person writing: "Think I just saw a Spoiler for who leaves Strictly (just popped up on my timeline out of nowhere) - curse those spoiler people - why can’t you just find out yourself if you want and let everyone else stick to the schedule!"

A second fan added: "@Twitter please can you tweak your algorithm so that @StrictlySpoiler only shows up on the feeds of people who actually follow the account. We don't all want to know the result before the Sunday evening show is broadcast."

Matt Goss was the latest contestant to exit the show after only scoring 20 points from the judges for his Jive to All Shook Up with dance partner Nadiya Bychkova.

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Matt Goss left the competition on Sunday

He told host Tess Daly after his elimination: "Thank you judges for your candour, you’ve helped me in many ways… This lovely lady beside me, a world champion with all the patience.

"I am very honoured to have danced with you, and everyone who is still in, I love you guys, go smash it guys."

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