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<\/p>\nFormer Apprentice contestant Thomas Skinner is understood to be taking legal action against the BBC, alleging the broadcaster manipulated voting to ensure his swift removal from Strictly Come Dancing.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old market trader, famous for his “Bosh” catchphrase, maintains he possesses evidence that the corporation deliberately understated his public vote tally due to unfavourable press coverage.<\/p>\n
Mr Skinner and professional partner Amy Dowden were eliminated in week two after landing in the bottom two and losing their dance-off.<\/p>\n
He is refusing to attend this weekend’s final, which marks the last show for presenters Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly.<\/p>\n
Thomas Skinner was the first to be eliminated from BBC Strictly<\/p>\n
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A source told The Sun: “Thomas is adamant he got a larger share of the public vote and believes he has the evidence to prove it.”<\/p>\n
The BBC told GB News when approached about the claims: “Strictly Come Dancing’s public vote is robust and independently overseen and verified to ensure complete accuracy.”<\/p>\n
Mr Skinner became the first celebrity eliminated from the current series, departing during the second week of competition alongside 13 other contestants.<\/p>\n
The scoring system combined judges’ marks from the opening fortnight with public voting results, though the BBC does not disclose individual vote tallies for each participant.<\/p>\n
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He and Ms Dowden accumulated 29 points from the judges across their two performances, facing former England rugby player Chris Robshaw and his partner Nadiya Bychkova, who had secured 30 points.<\/p>\n
All four judges opted to send Mr Skinner home, leaving Ms Dowden in tears.<\/p>\n
Friends of the contestant say he remains convinced that BBC executives were determined to remove him because of negative publicity surrounding his participation.<\/p>\n
A source told the publicaiton: “He’s been locked in rows with bosses ever since he was sent home.”<\/p>\n
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The controversies surrounding Skinner began before his elimination, including an incident in September when he grabbed a journalist’s phone and walked out of a press event for the programme.<\/p>\n
During the same week, he confessed to The Sun that he had been unfaithful to his wife Sinead, mother of their three children, shortly after their wedding.<\/p>\n
The former Apprentice star also received death threats following a meeting with US Vice President JD Vance in October, a month prior to Strictly’s launch.<\/p>\n
Mr Vance had reached out after admiring Skinner’s content online, and the pair were photographed together at a Cotswolds barbecue.<\/p>\n
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Thomas Skinner has threatened to sue the BBC<\/p>\n
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Mr Skinner also told The Sun: “Since I posted that picture I’ve had loads of death threats. People saying they want me dead, saying I am this political figure that I’m actually not.”<\/p>\n
Mr Skinner’s attitude towards his Strictly experience has shifted dramatically since claiming to have discovered evidence of fixing.<\/p>\n
He told fans: “I’ve had enough of all this b*****ks. I can’t do anything right now without someone criticising me or making me do something against my will.”<\/p>\n
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The 34-year-old expressed deep regret about participating, stating: “I wish I had never done Strictly, I never fitted the bill for that show let’s be honest. It’s caused me nothing but constant abuse like I’m a mass murderer.”<\/p>\n
Despite the dispute, Mr Skinner will appear on BBC1’s Celebrity Apprentice Christmas special, airing on 29 and 30 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Apprentice contestant Thomas Skinner is understood to be taking legal action against the BBC, alleging the broadcaster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[13698,49,48,3332,75,100391,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-354460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-celebrity","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-strictly-come-dancing","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}