BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Pete Wicks details death threats as he addresses show exit

During Thursday's edition of Lorraine, the ITV presenter was joined by Strictly Come Dancing participant Pete Wicks and his dance partner Jowita Przysta. Even though he's been at the bottom of the scoreboard for several weeks, Pete has managed to avoid the dance-off. Unfortunately, this turn of events has led to a torrent of negative reactions from the audience, which Pete talked about on his Staying Relevant podcast.

The 36-year-old shared that he has received death threats from a handful of individuals. Discussing these incidents on Lorraine's show, the host expressed her disgust, exclaiming: "For goodness sake, Pete, it's ridiculous!" Pete responded: "It's mad because it's a light entertainment show. Some people take it very, very seriously, but I'm used to it.



I've had it for years doing all sorts of different television." As Lorraine cut in to reassure the BBC celebrity that such extreme negative attention is unacceptable, she turned her attention to Jowita, asking: "I bet you get angry on his behalf?" Jowita confirmed her frustration: "Yeah because all we want to do is have fun and give people something on a Saturday night. We want to entertain people.

Dancing is the thing, you might like it or not it's fine." She continued, stressing the importance of kindness: "Everyone has their own opinion and it's absolutely fine but I think we need to be more kind to each other, the world is already quite a difficult place to be." Over the weekend, Pete and Jowita were informed they'd be gracing the dance floor once more for Musicals Week.

Despite this, Pete admitted he didn't anticipate making it this far in the competition. He confessed: "I thought I'd go week one and every week I say to her, 'this is going to be the last week, this will be the last week'. We're now, what 11 weeks in?" Regrettably on Sunday night, viewers bid farewell to one star as Montell Douglas and Jamie Borthwick found themselves in the dance-off.

After reprising their routines for the judges, it was time for them to discover their fate. Ultimately, it was a unanimous decision as each judge chose to save Montell, sending Jamie home. However, that wasn't Montell's first time at the bottom, as the Olympian has found herself in the dance-off multiple times, reports the Mirror .

Speaking about dancing to stay in the competition on Loose Women this week, Johannes Radede made a candid confession. He revealed: "I'm going to be honest, I have been a blubbering mess for the past three dance-offs ,and this woman here has been like, 'It's not over!'". When questioned if he feels he's let Montell down as her trainer, he conceded that was 'true' as he continued: "You've let her down, yeah.

This is not my first rodeo I've never pushed somebody like I've pushed Montell. But it's not that, it's how she's pushed me as a trainer." Johannes, paying tribute to his celebrity partner Montell, believes he's dancing with a champion.

Montell, who has been in the dance-off once again. She confessed: "It never gets easier. I don't think it's easier but I definitely think mindset for sure comes in straight away.

He (Johannes) always jokes that I'm coaching him on the dance-off! I'm like, 'We've got this'." Lorraine continues weekdays on ITV from 9am..