Strictly leaker refuses to be blamed for spoiling result as he slams the BBC
The man behind the Strictly Come Dancing leaks each weekend has previously hit back at claims he is spoiling the BBC show for viewers.
David Thorp, 42, has been leaking the identity of the axed pairings on his website Strictly Spoiler every Saturday evening since 2012 - much to the dismay of the Strictly Come Dancing team and judge Anton Du Beke, who suggested last year that David is 'ruining' the show for viewers.
However, in an exclusive chat with the Mirror last year, David hit back at his critics and explained how he thinks the BBC are "silly" if they if they think they can escape falling victims to spoilers in a digital world. The "Strictly Leaker" also claimed some viewers find the Sunday Results show "more bearable" if they already know who loses the dance-off.
Strictly hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly announce who is in the bottom two on Saturday night, but the scenes don't air until Sunday (BBC)While Strictly's Saturday night show is live, Sunday's is pre-recorded shortly after the couples have performed for the judges, meaning those in the audience know exactly which celebrity gets the boot almost 24 hours before the Sunday night show air. The names of axed couple usually leaks on Twitter, thanks to David, on a Saturday night.
At one point during our chat about all things Strictly in October last year, David revealed how the BBC dance competition shouldn't just be trying to find one "mole" if they want to stop leaks, as it's actually usually a different person who leaks the results to him each week.
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"I mean, I say this on my website, we live in an age where it’s possible to transmit information around the world pretty much in the blink of an eye with the internet," David began when speaking exclusively with the Mirror. "So I just find it a little bit silly of them to pre-record the results show of what is their main reality TV show and broadcast it a whole day later and expect people not to find out in this online world we live in."
Hitting back at claims spoilers "ruin" the show for Strictly fans, David said: "I mean, as far as the people who are accessing it go through me, they are actively seeking it out. They want to know. So I'm not spoiling it for people who don’t want to know and I do my very best not to - I try limit it to those who want to find out. People google the results and hit my website through searching. If there wasn’t a demand for the information to be out there, my site wouldn’t get as many hits as it does."
Without revealing too much, David also confirmed it's not just one person in the audience who lets him know who the judges chose to stay after the dance-off. "It’s a different person every week usually," David revealed last year when quizzed about who he gets the results from ahead of time each weekend.
He went on to add: "The vast majority of the time it’s someone who’s been in the audience and seen the show and contacted myself. "The time does tend to vary because they all have their phones taken off them when they go into the studio so they have to queue to get their phones back at the end, that can certainly have an impact. There have been times where I’ve thought we weren’t going to get something that week, but invariably someone always texts."
"Spoilers are not a new thing, you see spoilers for TV shows and films, pretty much anything, all the time," David continued, adding: "On that note, there are quite a lot of people that come to the website that do [still] watch the results show. I’ve had some comments from people that say knowing the results in advance actually makes the results show a bit more bearable and less anxiety-inducing."
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