Strictly legend Len Goodman slams Craig Revel-Horwood and Shirley Ballas over major judging issue
FORMER Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman has slammed the current judges over a series of scoring mistakes.
The ballroom dance veteran was the head judge on the BBC dance contest for a number of years before deciding to solely focus on its US counterpart, Dancing With The Stars.
However, last month Len decided the quit the American programme to retire and spend more time with family back in the UK.
Ahead of the final, Len opened up about the current series of the show and was left furious with show judges Craig Revel Horwood and Shirley Ballas and admitted the pair left him shouting at the telly.
Speaking to the MailOnline, Len said: “I’ve been giving it a load of ‘WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM, CRAIG. WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT?”
The star admitted he felt they had under marked some routines incuding a performance by semi-finalist Will Mellor.
Len added: “Craig has gone bloody mad. He gave Will a seven for his paso-doble. I’d have given him a nine.
“Shirley’s just as bad. She gave him a seven, too. What’s wrong with them?! No one in the semi-final should be getting a seven and for Will it should have been an eight or nine.”
Len was also left seething by Shirley and Motsi’s antics on the panel and even compared the current head judge to being as up and down as often as a wh**e’s drawers.
He said: “She keeps leaping up and down. I keep shouting: ‘WILL YOU SIT DOWN, SHIRLEY’.
“Honestly, she’s up and down as often as a wh**e’s drawers. Motsi is as bad. I don’t like it. Ballroom dancing is supposed to be an elegant thing. You don’t want all that leaping up and down and cocking your leg.”
The dance legend went onto admit he felt the judges had been acting ‘strange’ with the scoring and also lamented Anton for labelling a performance by Fleur East as ‘terrific’.
79 year old Len said: “Craig has consistently been scoring low. I don’t know what’s got into him. This year he’s determined to be the panto villain.
“Mind you, Anton’s been strange too. He gave Fleur (East) a ten for her paso doble. No way was that a ten. I spoke to him the other day, about playing golf. I said: ‘What were you thinking of, giving that girl a ten?’. He said ‘I thought it was terrific, Len.’ Well, it wasn’t!”