The man behind the Strictly Come Dancing results "leaks" has defiantly said Anton Du Beke "couldn't be further from the truth" after his comments saying the public didn't want to read spoilers.
Strictly Come Dancing hits the small screen on both Saturday and Sunday throughout the competition, with the latter show revealing to viewers at home which couple is given the boot.
However, as everything is recorded on the same day, the live audience already knows which celeb must dance their way off the show by the end of Saturday.
And that has led to one internet user reportedly sharing the leaked results on his site for years. Most recently, it was revealed before Sunday's edition that Matt Goss and Nadiya Bychkova had been given the boot.
On Tuesday, Strictly judge Anton, 56, appeared on Loose Women and asked the "spoiler" - who has since been revealed as David Thorp - to stop leaking the results prior to Sunday's show airing.
The former dancer told the panellists: "It gets on my nerves. Please stop. I don’t know who you are but please stop. Don’t do it. Why would you do it? Nobody knows who it is."
He added: "They call you a spoiler for a reason - because you’re a spoiler," before claiming "people don't want" the results early.
However, David was firm in his disagreement, telling The Mirror: "I am aware of Anton’s comments on Loose Women and I massively respect Anton as a judge and a dancer but I disagree with him on this point.
"As you say, he says people don’t want there to be a spoiler. That couldn’t be further from the truth. My website's success purely is because of demand. Four hundred thousand people viewed my website last weekend which isn’t a small number."
And he continued to say that his reveals can easily be avoided by those who don't want to know the result before it airs.
"Yes it’s a spoiler, but I do try and provide that spoiler in response to a demand there is for it," he said. "I also don’t post the spoiler other than posting a link. People can choose to click on it or not. A lot choose to click on it.
"There are a number of other sources for the spoiler too of which I’m the most visible and get the most attention. If I wasn’t doing it there would be several others taking my place."
