STRICTLY Come Dancing is embroiled in a new race row after fans have blasted the voting result as "outrageous".
Fans were left furious when Fleur East and Richie Anderson were left in the bottom two and asked to dance again in order to battle it out to be saved by the judges.
Strictly viewers took to Twitter to complain after Fleur, 34, and Richie, also 34, found themselves in the bottom two over the weekend.
Dozens slammed the decision as "racist" – as they hit out at the public watching, who have the power to vote celebrities up or down the leaderboard from home.
"Neither of those couples should have been anywhere NEAR the bottom two, but of course the British public are racist," one hit out.
"Good dancers voted out early every season due to racist voting," another chimed in while a third said: "Racism 100%, there's no other explanation. It's obvious."
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A fourth agreed: "The curse of the racist voters strikes again. Two competitors who shouldn't be in the dance off, are."
While a fifth said: "The moment I saw Fleur do black Ariel I knew the racists would put her in the bottom two. She deserves better."
Richie and Fleur were in the middle of the leaderboard before the public vote, which saw them land the bottom two.
It's not the first time that Strictly has been at the centre of a race row, as last year Rhys Stephenson and Ugo Monye landed in the dance-off – leaving fans arguing it out.
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Furious fans flocked to social media to share their outrage following the result, which saw Ugo and partner Oti Mabuse get sent home.
While former rugby champ Ugo, 38, had a difficult week on the BBC dance show, kids TV presenter Rhys, 27, has been consistently near the higher end of the leader-board.
He has wowed judges and viewers alike with his skills on the dance floor since the very first week – and last night was no exception.
However, he still landed himself in the bottom two – and viewers were furious, calling out "racism" as being behind the decision.
While elsewhere, fans were left fuming after Anita Rani was knocked out in the semi-final of the 2015 show when she was partnered with Russian pro Gleb Savchenko.
She hit out that racism cost her a place in the final of the dance competition, as she said she would've made it through if she was "white and blonde".
Anita, 43, said: “I still find myself wondering whether I would have got into the final if I didn’t have a brown face.”
She was beaten by Katie Derham, Georgia May Foote, Kellie Bright and Jay McGuinness who went on to compete for the Glitterball trophy in the final.
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Speaking to the Radio Times, she added: “There are various points in my career where I wonder what would have happened if I was blonde-haired and blue-eyed.
“Sometimes I don’t think things would have played out the same way if I was white.”
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