BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Pete Wicks receives death threats after avoiding dance-off

On Thursday's episode of Lorraine, the ITV's host welcomed Strictly Come Dancing's Pete Wicks and his dance partner Jowita Przystał. Despite consistently scoring low over the past weeks, Pete has managed to steer clear of the dance-off.

However, this has led to a significant backlash from some viewers, which Pete discussed on his Staying Relevant podcast, sharing that he has received death threats. Discussing the issue with Lorraine, she expressed her disgust, saying: "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."

Lorraine insisted that such extreme negative reactions are unacceptable, even for someone in the public eye. Turning to Jowita, Lorraine asked if she gets angry on Pete's behalf, to which the Strictly professional dancer said: "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 added, "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." ,reports the Mirror.

Over the weekend, Pete and Jowita were informed they'd be gracing the dance floor once more for Musicals Week. Despite his initial doubts about his longevity in the competition, Pete admitted: "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?"

On Sunday night, viewers bid farewell to either Montell Douglas or Jamie Borthwick after the dance-off. 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. Speaking about dancing to stay in the competition on Loose Women this week, Johannes Radede made a candid confession.

He said: "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 asked if he feels he's failed Montell as her trainer, he confessed 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."

Paying tribute to his celebrity partner, Johannes believes he's dancing with a champion, as Montell touched on being in the dance-off once again. She admitted: "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".