Saturday night’s episode of Strictly Come Dancing marked a major milestone for this season.
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Social media was soon awash with comments from Strictly fans: “Something is off,” one Twitter/X viewer claimed, while others described the interaction as “uncomfortable”.
The storm of conjecture they have prompted is perhaps the first sign that Strictly’s post-scandal era will prove very tricky indeed to navigate.