'it was harsh'
Strictly Come Dancing pro Janette Manrara says Aston Merrygold ‘didn’t deserve’ a low score after his shock elimination
STRICTLY Come Dancing pro Janette Manrara has hit back at judge Craig Revel-Horwood and insisted her dance partner Aston Merrygold "didn't deserve" his lowly four score which came before their shock eviction on Sunday.
Speaking on today's This Morning, the dancer branded the score "really harsh" while Aston said he was "gutted."
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She said: "I don't think that we deserved a four at all.
"That was really harsh.
"He's a judge and we have to respect that - I do respect it, but I really disagree."
Furious BBC viewers were stunned as the JLS star was thrown into the dance off with The Saturdays singer Mollie King and AJ Pritchard and branded the result "a total fix."
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He was given the boot in a controversial move by head judge Shirley Ballas, who had the deciding vote following his Viennese Waltz.
The Sun was first to exclusively report how Strictly bosses were left "horrified" at the outcome.
On today's show, Janette told Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield what the pair had planned should they have gone through to the next stages of the contest.
She said: "If we were given the chance to get through, we would have done the Jive in Blackpool.
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"The Charleston was coming up and he would have had a ball as well, and there was the show dance."
Host Holly, who revealed she personally felt "cheated" at the unexpected outcome, then urged the pair to record the routines they would have performed, should they have progressed to the later stages of the BBC show.
In a comment which delighted fans Janette said: "It was something we were talking about - it might happen!"
Holly squealed in delight and quipped: "And we will mark them!"
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Shortly after Sunday's show aired, Aston took to Instagram to say that while he was "gutted" he had left the show, he wished his fellow co-stars the best.
Yet his message of good-will didn't quell the anger of some show fans, who quickly branded the BBC series as pre-planned.
Meanwhile, on AJ Pritchard's close friendship with show newbie judge Shirley.
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