Dancing on Ice in new fix row as fans claim judges are ‘playing favourites’

DANCING on Ice fans have accused the show of being fixed after claiming the show's judges have "favourites".

While there is no evidence to indicate this is the case, some viewers are angry that Patsy Palmer was sent home and have blamed the scoring of her routine.

One commented: "Are you watching the same dancers?! Darren and Tippy are poor performers every week, people are voting to keep them in and the judges are keeping them in despite them performing poorly. Darren barely moves. Fix!"

Another said: "They’re critiquing her knowing they’re sending her home in an hour. it’s rigged!"

A third fumed: "This year's #DancingOnIce has been a massive fix from the start. 7.5 for Mollie who didn’t do a step wrong and had her head near on bounced off the ice yet #theVivienne stumbles and gets 8.5. FIIIIIIX."

A fourth vented: "So Mollie did the first headbanger well, and they still give her crap scores, so obvs they have favourites, another programme that's entered the fix genre."

Soap legend Patsy, 50, had been the bookies' favourite to be eliminated before the show, and she failed to complete the judges' three turn spin challenge, leading to her elimination in the dance-off.

Spice Girl Emma Bunton video called Patsy ahead of her Girl Power-inspired performance for icons week.

She said: "I've been watching every week, and you are so so great. Everyone is so proud of you."

Patsy, who performed as Geri Horner's Ginger Spice, revealed she "loves" Emma, who she said originally auditioned to play her character Bianca Jackson in EastEnders.

After her performance, head judge Christopher Dean said Patsy and her partner Matt Evers were marked down for not doing a "complete spin"; she did two rotations instead of three.

He added that Patsy was skating with "more confidence", but needed to up the quality.