Strictly fans issue same complaint as couple's near-perfect score sparks fury

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Strictly Come Dancing viewers issued the same complaint after Cach Mercer and Maddie Ingoldsby received a near-perfect score from the judges. On Saturday (November 14) night, Cach…

Strictly Come Dancing viewers issued the same complaint after Cach Mercer and Maddie Ingoldsby received a near-perfect score from the judges. On Saturday (November 14) night, Cach and Maddie, along with the other couples, were competing for a spot at Blackpool.

The Love Island star, 25, and his professional partner returned to the ballroom after facing the dance-off last week. The pair were hoping to wow the judges with a Charleston to Blame It on the Boogie by The Jacksons.

And they did just that. Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke struggled to find anything wrong with the performance, and praised the couple for returning to the dancefloor as they did after ending up in the bottom two last week.

Craig awarded the pair a nine, while the other three judges felt the performance was worthy of a 10, taking their score to near-perfect 39 out of 40.

However, many felt like the pair were overmarked, with some sharing their frustrations on social media.

"Cach and Maddie have officially mastered the art of doing the same dance every single week! It's like watching the same routine on repeat with a different outfit. Someone press shuffle… or better still, change the record!" one fumed.

Yet again no technique, just more freestyling from Cach. So fed up with them doing what they want to do and to hell with the technique. He can dance...yes, but it's time he started doing proper ballroom and Latin technique. Way overmarked," echoed a second.

A third added: "If I speak about what I think about Cach and Maddie's score I fear I would be flamed."

A fourth raged: "I have honestly never seen so much s**t in my life scoring Cach and Maddie 10’s. There was timing issues throughout - absolutely ridiculous. Did Maddie choreo this routine? Or was it someone else hence the scores?"

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