Strictly Come Dancing's Danny John-Jules slams show as 'filthy' and 'dirty'

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Ex- Strictly Come Dancing star Danny John-Jules has blasted the popular BBC show, calling it ''dirty'' and ''filthy''. His comments come after denying allegations that he bullied his dance partner.The 61-year-old was partnered with professional Amy Dowden in 2018, during the 16th series.The pair were eliminated from the show during week eight, days after it was claimed that the actor had reduced Amy to tears during rehearsals.

The Red Dwarf star has now claimed his hard work in practicing left him resented by the show's producers, writes The Mirror.Danny says they made up bullying allegations to evict him after he received the first ten score of the season in episode five.Jules addressed the claims on the My Time Capsule podcast, hosted by Michael Fenton Stevens.He said: "It's a dirty show on that level.

On that level it's a filthy show - It's based on tabloid stories."The thing about Strictly is that it doesn't matter who you are, you're going into a well-oiled machine which at that time was the biggest show on telly."I already knew when I went in there what they were expecting of me."Because I wasn't giving them anything to chew on, they just went out there and made it up."I said to everyone, what did I do then, what did I actually do that everyone was so unhappy about?"I don't know, nobody has actually told me."They came up with this cockamamie story about bullying basically - it was basically dog whistling, that I was bullying my partner".Mirror Online have approached the BBC for comment.Reports at the time alleged that Jules had yelled and sworn at Dowden, saying "I’m the star, not you.”Jules defied the allegations, suggesting they had been created by "racists in pointy hats”.He told the podcast: "What I want to