Shirley Ballas revealed she would have sent Layton Williams home on Sunday (Picture: PA)
Strictly Come Dancing fans are convinced Shirley Ballas is ‘feuding’ with Layton Williams following Sunday night’s eviction.
This weekend, Angela Scanlon became the ninth celebrity to be eliminated from the BBC show after facing Bad Education star Layton, 29, in the dance-off.
Angela, 39, performed a Cha-cha-cha to Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive with her professional partner Carlos Gu while Layton and Nikita Kuzmin danced an American Smooth to Björk’s It’s Oh So Quiet.
While judges Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke and Craig Revel Horwood all voted to save Layton and Nikita, head judge Shirley Ballas voted to keep Angela and Carlos in the competition, prompting viewers to take to social media to accuse Shirley of having an issue with Layton.
The 63-year-old said: ‘Well important for me always when it comes to Ballroom and Latin is the character of the dance, that it’s true to the dance, timing and quality and I would have voted for Angela and Carlos.’
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, one person wrote in response: ‘Between her comments last night and choosing to save Angela tonight, Shirley has an obvious personal problem with Layton and I won’t hear otherwise. I hope this won’t knock his confidence. #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing.’
Viewers took to social media to accuse Shirley of having an issue with Layton (Picture: BBC)
Layton and Nikita Kuzmin danced an American Smooth to Björk’s It’s Oh So Quiet (Picture: BBC)
Another added: ‘Does Shirley have an issue with Layton? #strictly #bbcstrictly #StrictlyComeDancing.’
‘Bit worried about Layton with Shirley being the deciding judge. Smells a bit whiffy. #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing,’ tweeted someone else.
Shirley Ballas voted to keep Angela and Carlos in the competition (Picture: BBC)
Other comments included: ‘Thank f**k we didn’t give Shirley the head judge vote because she f*****g hates Layton for no reason #Strictly’ and ‘Shirley definitely has a problem with Layton, her comments to him this week were bordering on downright rude actually. She also can’t handle boos from the audience.’
After the results, Layton himself took to X to say: ‘That was close! SO grateful to be through to Musicals Week! Being in the bottom two has given me a [fire emoji] up my [peach emoji] Big love to all of our supporters.’
Metro.co.uk has reached out to Shirley’s reps for comment.
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