Strictly Come Dancing viewers hit out at host Tess Daly

From Digital Spy

Mollie King became the latest celebrity to leave Strictly Come Dancing 2017 at the weekend, but BBC viewers were more concerned with host Tess Daly's "awkward" remarks about the endlessly-rumoured romance between Mollie and dance partner AJ Pritchard.

While the Saturdays singer has reaffirmed multiple times that there is nothing romantic going on between the pair, speaking ahead of the second round of routines, Tess branded the couple's dance "the romantic waltz", while her co-host Claudia Winkleman said: "Now I think we're all agreed it's time to talk about the elephant in the room."

But viewers of the BBC dancing show were not happy with the comments and taking to Twitter, one person wrote: "Tess (or, at least, her script) is really pushing the Mollie / AJ ship hard, isn't she?" while someone else said: "The wee jibes that Mollie and AJ are getting are all a bit childish. And embarrassing for them. Cut it out please."