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James Jordan slams Strictly judges with cutting Twitter remark as fans complain

James Jordan has hit out at the Strictly Come Dancing judges over their scoring as fans questioned some of the marks given during Saturday's live show.

While he hasn't been a pro dancer on the BBC show for years now, James still very much has an opinion on what happens on Strictly, with him already being very vocal with his thoughts on the new series. On the night that this year's couples were finally revealed, after the launch show was delayed, James questioned why popular pro Neil Jones was once again not given a celeb partner, before criticising the professionals' group number at the start of last Sunday's results show,

Ex Celebrity Big Brother star James attracts plenty of attention for his live show tweets and, although he was otherwise engaged on Saturday night, so couldn't deliver his verdict in real time, he still had something to say as many fans criticised the judges 'inconsistent' scoring.

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Movie Week saw the first 10s of this year's Strictly given out to Tyler West for his Charleston, while, down at the bottom of the leaderboard, Tony Adams got just 21 out of 40. On seeing what viewers were saying about the latest live show, James took to Twitter to post: "Sounds like it was a great show tonight! But from everything I’ve read it seems like most of u are saying the judges scores have been (let’s say) inconsistent, I take a couple of weeks off and they go rogue."

Firing a not so subtle dig at the Strictly judges, James added: "Don’t worry - I’ll be back next week for some honest judging."

Replying to James' post, one of his followers wrote: "Really poor scoring. Judged Clearly have their favourites that they are over marking. Might have to stop watching if it gets any worse," with a second responding: "9’s and 10’s out for this standard of dancing. They used to only come out when it was deserved."

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