To share this Twitter/X post from Tom Skinner (re his absence from the Strictly final) with you? 🤭

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

'As most of you will have seen in the papers, I won’t be at the final of Strictly Come Dancing tonight.

First thing I wanna say is this…. I spoke with my lovely dance partner, Amy Dowden to make sure she was okay with me not attending. She’s a good person and a good friend now, I’d never let her down.

When I got given the opportunity to do Strictly back in April, I was buzzing. Not because I can dance…. I can’t. But because i really wanted to test myself and Learn something completely out of my comfort zone.

On the night I left the show, I received an anonymous email claiming to be from a BBC exec with stats, saying I’d received far more votes than it appeared and it wasn’t right. I’ve since had the email independently verified.

That same email mentioned the BBC was very angry an nervous simply because I had met JD Vance (USA VICE PRESIDENT). Let me be clear, I’m not a political bloke. Never have been. I just love my country and am patriotic. I’ve been made out by the press to be this political figure. If anyone was to get an opportunity like what I did, they would have taken it. I still think it is mad that a man like me who sells mattresses out of a van can call someone that senior in the world’s politics a friend now.

I have asked to see the official voting figures to back up the ones I was sent in the email but was told they couldn’t be shown to me. And have never been shown in the history of the show. I have spoke about the email I had received to senior people and the BBC welfare team, who btw I genuinely respect. And they was the ones who advised me to get legal advice because of how unfair it all was. (This was not my idea)

There were also smaller things that added to the feeling. Everyone received a welcome gift on the show….. skincare bits, face masks, that sort of thing. Mine was the only one that “Got Stolen” apparently. On its own, it’s nothing…. but added to everything else, it felt strange.

I have been made out to be someone I actually am not simply because I took part in this show. The views were formed from media stories over the summer that simply wasn’t true or exaggerated. It ain’t fair what has happened to me and my family.

I also want to say this carefully. After receiving this information and having it verified, a very senior BBC figure has since resigned. I’m not saying that had anything to do with me, but it did feel bizarre. Also the main hosts stepped down the following week. Again, I’m not saying it has anything to do with me. It’s just all very coincidental. I’m just being honest.

I didn’t want any of this in the press either. A lot of what’s been written has been exaggerated or untrue about me and I’ve found it hard to take in over the past few months. This is my life, and it’s not nice what has been said about me if I’m honest. What I do find strange is that after a private Zoom call with BBC executives on Wednesday night about going forward, this was national news by Thursday morning. That tells me there’s been a leak. Because it ain’t come from me to be in the press. (It might be from the same person who sent me the email🤔) …..I didn’t want this to be national news, in fact I didn’t want any of this. But now I’m writing a statement so people know the truth as to why I’m not attending, I don’t want people thinking I am bitter when I ain’t. I don’t want more stories being wrote that ain’t true.

I’m not kicking off for attention. I’m not saying I should’ve won either. I was rubbish at dancing😂 we all know that. But love me or hate me you do have to appreciate the massive following I have, I can’t even walk into the local Tesco without getting stopped for selfies. I just believe in fairness and respect.

I wish every dancer tonight the very best. They’ve worked their socks off and they deserve their moment.

As for me I’ve got fish to sell on my stall and a family I love more than anything.

Thank you for the love as Always.

Bosh❤️'

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I'm super obsessed with his belief that Tess and Claudia left because of him 😭

Isn't he on Celebrity Apprentice to be shown over Christmas? On the BBC? Will be back on Twitter in January claiming he was treated unfairly?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/the-celebrity-apprentice-christmas-specials-line-up

If someone at the BBC did remove his votes and hide them in the big BBC conspiracy cupboard, then phew.... we could have had weeks of him gurning on that dance floor and winning the final.

Christ, what a massive twat he is 😂

Surely if the producers didn't want him on they wouldn't have invited him in the first place. His dancing was shit and he's very unpopular, of course he was voted off first.

Really was he well I never knew that sounds about right for him though. I still wonder how he managed to get on The Apprentice he was just as shite on that what he knows about running anything could be written on the back of a stamp.

He's also got convictions for handling stolen goods and the possession of controlled drugs. I don't see why the BBC invites him to appear on anything.

This is so funny. It’s a stream of consciousness vague conspiracy bollocks. If I didn’t know better, I’d have wondered how I’d missed Trump being on SCD 😂. Not surprising he now classes Vance as being a mate.

THERES AN UPDATE 😄😄😄:

'My Statement

First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who has followed my journey and supported me along the way. I genuinely appreciate it more than you’ll ever know.

I also want to be honest. I know what’s likely to come next. I expect people will call me a liar, they’ll try to cancel me, say I’m hated, or even claim I didn’t get any votes at all. At this point, I don’t care anymore. I know what’s right, and I know the conversations I’ve had.

I understand that much of what’s happened is my own fault. I know I’ve made plenty of mistakes in my life and I hold my hands up to that. I’m not perfect and I’ve never pretended to be. But what I can’t accept is my family being dragged into this. So I need to take a step back.

I never wanted any of this to become public. I didn’t want it in the papers. I don’t understand why it’s been leaked, or why this keeps happening. I genuinely don’t know what I’ve done to deserve this level of pressure and hostility from the press.

If I’m being completely honest, I really regret doing Strictly Come Dancing. I wish I’d never done it. The only positive to come from it was making a new friend in Amy, who is a genuinely lovely person. Aside from that, it’s brought a huge amount of negative attention, and it has affected me more than I’d like to admit.

What’s upset me most is that a private converaations I had with the BBC on Wednesday night, something I believed was private has somehow ended up in the public domain on ever single news channel. I still don’t understand how or why that’s happened. And it was a very amicable phone call, obviously we spoke about I was upset that I received that email. But apart from that we wasn’t arguing. It was on good terms.

I want to be clear: I don’t hate the BBC. They gave me my big break when I appeared on The Apprentice six or seven years ago, and I’m grateful for that. I’m not looking for conflict. I just want to get on with my life.

Tomorrow I’ll be back at work, focusing on my family, my children, and my beautiful wife. I’m lucky I have work every day an I’m focusing on that. The amount I’ve been attacked this year really isn’t right.

So I’m asking, genuinely to any journalist out there please stop going for me and my family. Please just leave me alone now. I’ve had enough. I haven’t done anything wrong.

Thank you to those who’ve shown kindness and support.

Good night.
God bless.
Bosh❤️'

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Does Amy know that they are friends?

I forgot about this guy until he started posting on twitter - why is he now blaming the papers?

So basically he didn't anticipate the backlash and is back tracking.

He regrets Strictly because it meant head to confess his affair this wife.
He really is dreadful.

He is an odious man.
In the lead up to Strictly he was doing the obligatory round of interviews when he got wind that one of the female journalists had his affair story, he absolutely went ape shit, grabbed her phone off her then stormed out.

He completely denied this untill the affair story broke, his crocodile tears were awful.
Oh and on X he uses ChatGPT to write his posts.
If he wants to protect his family life maybe he should get off SM and stick to fish

ChatGPT usually has better grammar!

The Venn diagram of right wingers and conspiracy theorists has significant overlap. Nothing the right loves more than a persecution complex!

What an idiot.

Utter Shite .. the BBC have an independent company who verifies the vote. There are 2 auditors, who are not BBC employees who assure everything is correct.

The BBC have no reason to fix his vote, they signed him in the first place, if they didn’t want him on, they wouldn’t have signed in.

The BBC need to investigate his claim, and publish the W1 & W2 vote.

He wasn’t liked, because he was a dirty cheat. He is no victim in this

He’s back peddling harder than a drunk circus clown riding a unicycle the press aren’t the ones in the wrong here he’s the one who posted it all over twitter for everyone to read about what did he think would happen that it would stay private and never get out that’s not how the press work. If there’s a story to be told they will tell it and then it will blow back up in his face as he is now finding out. The man’s slower than a slug on a salt lick.