Vick Hope breaks down in tears over Strictly Come Dancing exit as she opens up on 'language barrier'

Vick Hope was left in tears after she discussed her Strictly Come Dancing exit on spin-off show It Takes Two, saying a “language barrier” with her partner proved difficult.

The Capital Breakfast presenter, 29, was booted off the show after her Cha Cha failed to excite the judges over the weekend.

Craig Revel Horwood called it “quite a disaster” while head judge Shirley Ballas said it wasn’t her “cup of tea”.

Speaking to Zoe Ball, Hope said she was “gutted” to have lost her place in the competition. “They didn’t love the routine and I knew if we were in the dance-off there is no reason they would change their mind about not liking the routine,” she said. “All you want to do is make them happy.”

Hope broke down in tears after being shown footage from her time on the show.

“I’m emotional. Sorry,” she said as she hugged her professional partner Graziano Di Prima.

She said she loved working with the Italian dancer, but added: “We had a bit of a language barrier and working through that was quite an experience especially when you’re working through technical things.”

Their appearance on the show came hours after Hope sparked “fix” rumours after claiming producers were called in before the final decision to eliminate her over fellow contestant Seann Walsh and his partner Katya Jones.

Speaking on Capital Radio Breakfast on Monday, the DJ – who at one point was favourite to win the BBC ballroom show – revealed that there had been a conversation between producers before Ballas gave her decision to save Walsh and Jones.

“It was very strange because after the dance off, then the judges have to give their decisions but there was a bit of a conflab with some producers and then they gave their decisions,” she said.

“It was just stunned silence in the studio, it was a really weird atmosphere.”

A BBC spokeperson shut down the claim, telling Standard Online: “It is categorically untrue to imply that producers tell the Judges how to score or who to save. Each judge votes on each dance independently, based on its merits and in their expert opinion alone.

"The Judges use an electronic voting pad to transmit their score or choice of who to save to the production gallery which is then locked in and cannot be changed. Only after this does a Producer speak to the judges, advising them on how long they have to speak and reminding them to give a reason for their decisions. The process was exactly the same this weekend.”

The remaining couples will this week take on Halloween-inspired routines.

Strictly Come Dancing is on BBC One, Saturday at 6:50pm