A BBC spokesman said: “Due to the nature of some of the content in the rules, publishing them in full would compromise our duty of care to participants
I'm trying (and failing) to come up with a rule that would compromise duty of care if it were disclosed in advance. I've googled 'Strictly come dancing rules' to either find a list of rules, or the source of the above quote, but nothing. Not that it matters particularly, and I didn't care one way or the other about Melvin (sp?) staying in, but I like accuracy!