{"id":38092,"date":"2025-12-20T23:49:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/strictly-contestant-claims-bbc-fixed-vote-to-see-him-eliminated\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:49:51","slug":"strictly-contestant-claims-bbc-fixed-vote-to-see-him-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/strictly-contestant-claims-bbc-fixed-vote-to-see-him-eliminated\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly contestant claims BBC fixed vote to see him eliminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Skinner, who was first to be voted off current series of Strictly Come Dancing, says he got more votes than shown<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Skinner has alleged he received a message suggesting the BBC had rigged the vote that saw him eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing.<\/p>\n<p> The businessman claimed on social media that the night he left the competition he was sent an \u201canonymous email claiming to be from a BBC exec with stats\u201d that showed he had \u201creceived far more votes than it appeared\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> Skinner, a former Apprentice contestant, was the first celebrity contestant to be voted out in this year\u2019s series in September.<\/p>\n<p>It will finish on Saturday night with Karen Carney, Amber Davies and George Clarke competing to take home the trophy.<\/p>\n<p> Skinner has described himself as \u201cnon-political\u201d, despite appearing to align himself with the right by wearing a Maga (Make America Great Again) baseball cap and posing for pictures with US vice-president JD Vance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/dec\/20\/strictly-contestant-claims-bbc-fixed-vote-to-see-him-eliminated\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Skinner, who was first to be voted off current series of Strictly Come Dancing, says he got more votes than shown Thomas Skinner has alleged he received a message suggesting the BBC had rigged the vote that saw him eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing. The businessman claimed on social media that the night he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:14:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}