{"id":1964419,"date":"2025-08-16T19:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1964419"},"modified":"2025-08-16T19:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:59:14","slug":"strictly-come-dancing-is-the-scandal-plagued-british-dwts-7-controversies-from-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/strictly-come-dancing-is-the-scandal-plagued-british-dwts-7-controversies-from-the-show\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Strictly Come Dancing\u2019 Is the Scandal-Plagued, British \u2018DWTS\u2019: 7 Controversies From the Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scandalously Come Dancing<\/a> might be a better name for the British reality competition that gave rise to the U.S. TV show Dancing With the Stars<\/a> and other international versions. Over the past two decades, BBC<\/a>\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing<\/a> has landed in controversy several times, and now the BBC is launching an inquiry into allegations of drug use on set. Here\u2019s a rundown of the bad press Dtws\u2019 forbearer has accumulated. 2008: Voting system malfunction The BBC had to send all three semi-finalists of Strictly Series 6 through to the final in 2008 after mistakenly allowing viewers to vote for Holby<\/a> City actor Tom Chambers<\/a>, even though any number of points Chambers<\/a> would have received from the public vote wouldn\u2019t have been enough to save him from the last-chance dance-off. And because viewers paid to vote, any votes for Chambers \u2014 who, it turns out, went on to win that…<\/div>\n

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Scandalously Come Dancing might be a better name for the British reality competition that gave rise to the U.S. TV show Dancing With the Stars and other international versions. Over the past two decades, BBC\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing has landed in controversy several times, and now the BBC is launching an inquiry into allegations of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1964420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1964419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/\u2018Strictly-Come-Dancing-Is-the-Scandal-Plagued-British-\u2018DWTS-7-Controversies.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}