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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
Entertainment
Jessica Sansome

ITV's The Games viewers furious over 'shambles' and say event is void

It was the penultimate episode on Thursday night and the stakes were getting high among the celebrities taking part in The Games. And after a row between two of the contestants earlier in the week, there was more controversy as the 12 famous faces took to the velodrome.

Viewers of the ITV series, which is a reboot of Channel 4's hit in the early noughties, claim the women's cycling event was a 'shambles' and that the eventual winner should have been disqualified. Chelcee Grimes, Olivia Attwood, Rebecca Sarker, Phoenix Gulzar-Brown, Lucrezia Millarini, and Christine McGuinness were taking part in the keirin.

And things got off to a wobbly start Chelcee tried to break away from her fellow stars a second into the race getting underway with the derny rode past to set their pace for the first few laps. As she tried to pull out of where she had been placed, the singer and footballer managed to knock Christine McGuInness.

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