Brendan Cole has urged the person who keeps leaking the Strictly Come Dancing spoilers to cease and desist.
The results show is filmed directly after the live show on a Saturday, but goes out the following night.
Someone calling themselves the Strictly Spoiler has been regularly sharing the results online the night before, taking away the build-up of the big reveal.
Cole - who served as a professional dancer on the hit BBC dance competition from from 2004 until 2018 - is not a fan of spoilers, especially knowing first-hand the work that goes into putting the results show together.
Speaking to The Standard on behalf of Sky Vegas, he fumed: “I like watching the show Sunday night and not knowing who goes out. A lot goes into the results show, [such as] pre-records for the group numbers. It would just be too much strain on the show, which is why I guess they don't do it.”
The New Zealand-born ballroom dancer, 48, also weighed-in on some of the decisions by the judges, saying he felt EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick had been “undermarked”.
He explained: “Jamie was a bit undermarked – the judges weren’t overly complimentary. He was strong technically – and the judges alluded to it – but it doesn’t mean it was a bad performance. They were a bit harsh on him, and he seemed deflated afterwards.
“He must have put a lot of work into that number to make it look like that. He would have had to put in hours and hours to make that [number] look that good. If you compare that to Montell [Douglas] who in my opinion didn't do a very good number compared to what she's been doing, he was much better than her, yet he was on a lower score.”
Gladiators star Douglas and Johannes Radebe earned a near-perfect score of 35 for their Whitney Houston-inspired routine, however they still found themselves in the dreaded dance-off alongside Sam Quek Nikita Kuzmin.
The judges ultimately decided to save Douglas and send former field hockey star Quek home.
Strictly continues this Saturday on BBC One.
