The Week 5 elimination for Strictly Come Dancing 2025 has been leaked ahead of the results show on Sunday (October 26), and it has left many fans unhappy, with some calling it a "complete joke".
Newsquest will not reveal the details of which two celebrities found themselves in the bottom two since these results have not been verified, and so as not to spoil the programme.
The 2025 series is still in its early stages at the moment, with only a few pairs having been eliminated so far.
Week 5 was Icons Week, with Lewis Cope and Katya Jones recording the highest score with a 34.
Several pairs were pretty close thoug,h as Vicky Pattison and Kai Widdrington and Amber Davies and Nikita Kuzmin both got 33.
Additionally, Alex Kingston and Joahannes Radebe scored 32 points.
Strictly fans react to Week 5 elimination leak
As the results show for Strictly Come Dancing is filmed on the same night as the rest of the show, but broadcast a day later, it allows people who are in the crowd for filming to know who is eliminated ahead of time.
The outcome of the Week 3 dance-off was revealed online this morning by the Strictly Spoiler account.
Quite a few fans were surprised by who ended up in the dance-off in the first place and didn't seem happy with who ended up being eliminated.
Plenty took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to share their thoughts, with one saying it was "so undeserved".
Another shared: "I knew whatever the result was it was going to hurt but ITS SO MUCH WORSE THAN I FEARED."
A third commented: "All I’ll say about this - the result is a complete joke - wrong two people in the dance off and wrong person went out."
Meanwhile, another said: "Absolutely ridiculous. People assumed they were safe. Gone way too soon."
Some people complained about how the voting system worked to allow for this situation to happen.
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One wrote: "I know this means they aren’t doing well with the public vote but it also shows what a mess the judges voting is for these two to be in the bottom 2, not the worst of the night."
Another shared: "Well, this is what happens when they underscore some and overscore others. What a mess."
Some defended the process though, as one said: "This is how strictly has always worked! Neither deserved to go but it’s the jeopardy of the competition that I like!"
