According to the Mirror, external<\/a>, Borthwick had been due to restart filming this month following his suspension.<\/p>\nBut he has now been dropped altogether.<\/p>\n
In June, the BBC said his language on the set of Strictly was “entirely unacceptable and in no way reflects the values or standards we hold and expect”.<\/p>\n
At the time, Borthwick – who took part in Strictly’s 20th anniversary series last year – apologised for “any offence and upset”.<\/p>\n
Disability charity Scope said Borthwick should reflect on what he said and educate himself.<\/p>\n
“We hope he takes the opportunity to get to know the reality of disabled people’s lives,” said the organisation’s media manager Warren Kirwan.<\/p>\n
Borthwick rose to fame for his portrayal of Jay Brown (previously Mitchell) in EastEnders.<\/p>\n
He has won a British Soap Award for best dramatic performance from a young actor, and an Inside Soap Award for best actor.<\/p>\n
The actor took part in the latest series of Strictly, where he was paired with professional dancer Michelle Tsiakkas.<\/p>\n
It marked a return to the ballroom for him, after he won the 2023 Christmas special.<\/p>\n
He made it through to Blackpool week – seen as a key milestone in the contest – but was voted off later in November, making him the ninth celebrity to leave the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC News has contacted Borthwick’s representatives for a comment. According to the Mirror, external, Borthwick had been due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-119514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}