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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Lisa Salmon & Ellie Kemp

Strictly’s Will Mellor ‘a bit annoyed’ by comments after dancing with flu

Will Mellor said he was "a bit annoyed” with the judges' comments after he danced while ill with the flu on Strictly Come Dancing last weekend.

Despite his illness, the Coronation Street star didn't get eliminated from the BBC dance competition. But Will, who was asleep in his dressing room before he went on stage, scored just 23 points for his rumba to The Joker And The Queen by Ed Sheeran featuring Taylor Swift.

“I’d only trained for about five hours that week because I’d been in bed with the full-on flu virus. I was in a bad way. The judges knew, but they just decided not to mention it or take it into consideration,” Mellor said.

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