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Ryan Paton

ITV Dancing On Ice viewers baffled by 'unfair' issue as Ekin Su survives skate off

Dancing On Ice viewers were baffled as they spotted an "unfair" issue on tonight's show.

Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield returned to front Sunday's edition of the popular show. The second batch of celebrities performed their first routines on the latest episode.

The Vivienne, Mollie Gallagher, John Fashanu, Darren Harriott and Carley Stenson donned their skates to begin their Dancing On Ice journey. The skaters were bidding to win enough votes to avoid performing in the dance off against Ekin Su Cülcüloğlu.

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The Love Island star went up against John Fashanu after the former Wimbledon striker got the lowest number of votes. Ekin Su impressed fans with a routine to Ariana Grande as the judges voted for her to stay in the competition.

Holly said she was "gutted" as the former Gladiators host became the first skater to exit this season. Holly Willoughby said: "I'm so gutted to be saying goodbye to you. Chris [Dean] summed it up as he said nobody has improved more since bootcamp than you."

Ekin Su has progressed to Musicals Week on Dancing On Ice (ITV)

However, viewers following the programme on Twitter pointed out an issue as Ekin Su had an additional week to practice the dance off routine.

Jason said: "Flaw in the system is one pair have a week to rehearse the skate off, while one pair have 10 minutes"

Iambri_97 commented: "The first dance off format on this is so poor because Ekin-Su has had a solid week to come to terms with it, to practice her routine without having a main show skate tonight, meanwhile John Fashanu has had about 4 minutes, and skated tonight. Ridiculous format"

Julian posted: "So she has had a WHOLE WEEK to practice while he….well it spoke for itself"

Lauren commented: "SO unfair she's had a full week to concentrate on that one skate John had to learn 2 skates in a week"

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