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Strictly Come Dancing mistake “unforgivable”

The BBC has said the phone-line controversy of the Strictly Come Dancing final was “unforgivable”.

The controversial outcome of Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing semi-final was “unforgivable” a BBC spokesman has said. During the weekend’s show judges awarded equal points to both Rachel Stevens and Lisa Snowdon meaning Holby City star Tom Chambers couldn’t avoid a dance off regardless of the viewer vote. Producers deemed this unfair and decided to let all three couples through to this weekend’s final prompting nearly 1,800 complaints from disgruntled viewers. "That's the unforgivable thing about this - we should've seen it coming," Jon Beazley, the BBC’s Head of Entertainment Productions, told BBC Breakfast. “The fact is we didn't so we're doing whatever we can now to sort it out." He said there were many contingencies on the show, "but nobody had planned for the exceptional circumstances of a tie at the top of the leaderboard".