{"id":273745,"date":"2025-11-20T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273745\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:00:10","slug":"janette-manrara-forced-to-address-bbc-strictly-complaints-after-backlash-over-spin-off-it-takes-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273745\/","title":{"rendered":"Janette Manrara forced to address BBC Strictly complaints after backlash over spin-off It Takes Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Janette Manrara took a moment on Strictly: It Takes Two to assure viewers after fans complained about being deceived by the chat show. <\/p>\n

The Strictly Come Dancing spin-off show airs every weekday, giving fans some insight into how the professionals and celebrities are preparing for Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Hosts Ms Manrara and Fleur East always make clear the show is coming to audiences live, but an oversight on Tuesday\u2019s edition saw the presenter addressing backlash over this claim. <\/p>\n

During last night\u2019s programme, the former Strictly pro was forced to make a clarification after viewers rushed to complain that Tuesday\u2019s show clearly hadn\u2019t been live. <\/p>\n

\"Janette<\/p>\n

Janette Manrara addressed the complaints on Wednesday’s show<\/p>\n

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BBC <\/p>\n

\"Janette<\/p>\n

Fans noticed Tuesday’s Strictly: It Takes Two wasn’t live<\/p>\n

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BBC<\/p>\n

Ms Manrara quickly moved on with the show following the clarification. <\/p>\n

Her announcement followed a flood of social media complaints, with one writing on X: \u201cErm thought #ItTakesTwo was live??? <\/p>\n

\u201cThe La Voix news broke 3 hrs ago!!??? Typical #BBC.”<\/p>\n

A second echoed: \u201cThey specifically say that #ItTakesTwo is live, but they just had to put a message on screen with the fact that La Voix isn’t dancing, so they clearly aren’t live when that was hours ago?! #Strictly.”<\/p>\n

LATEST BBC STRICTLY DEVELOPMENTS<\/p>\n

\"La<\/p>\n

La Voix has had to pull out of this weekend’s show<\/p>\n

| PA<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s what you get from weirdly prerecording Tuesday’s #ItTakesTwo. Fleur gets into a right mess about what’s happening #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing,\u201d another shared.<\/p>\n

Following the clarification, someone else wrote: \u201cWow, well that’s news to me!!! I will never be able to watch it in the same way again.”<\/p>\n

Others argued the show had always made clear which episodes are live and which are pre-recorded, with one arguing: \u201cCertain ppl not realising it takes two is prerecorded on Tuesdays still will never not be funny #ittakestwo.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t get how fans didn’t know about a Tuesday #ItTakesTwo #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing,\u201d another penned. (sic) <\/p>\n

The show is filmed live from the BBC’s Elstree Studios, with the Tuesday show pre-recorded on a Monday, shortly after the day’s live episode has aired.<\/p>\n

It was announced on Tuesday that drag performer La Voix had been forced to pull out of the upcoming weekend’s show after doctors advised the 45-year-old to rest after an injury.<\/p>\n

La Voix, whose real name is Chris Dennis, shared a recent update, stating: “This has been ongoing since the foxtrot. I felt a little niggle in my foot, hence comments about me being flat-footed. I was thinking this will be fine, but it got gradually worse.<\/p>\n

“Until on Saturday we had to change shoes, I couldn\u2019t wear heels. I had to wear those awful flat shoes.<\/p>\n

“We tried on Monday and it was really clear I was struggling in pain so we decided to be professional and call this, hoping with some rest I can be back.” (sic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Janette Manrara took a moment on Strictly: It Takes Two to assure viewers after fans complained about being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,830,96,1598,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-273745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-strictly-come-dancing","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273745","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=273745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}