Strictly Come Dancing viewers were stunned as pro dancer Nikita Kuzmin 'randomly' removed his shirt to dance topless with celeb partner Tilly Ramsay in their final dance on Sunday's results show.
In the dreaded dance-off the pair performed their samba to Levitating by Dua Lipa in a bid to impress the judges and secure a place in the quarter finals on the BBC dance show.
And fans were 'screaming' as Nikita decided to take his brightly patterned shirt off, which then got caught on his mic wire.
@betbinch tweeted: "Screaming at Nikita taking his shirt off... he knows his audience."
@lovelylaurajd said: "Screaming at Nikita randomly taking off his shirt and then the shirt swinging around like a third dancer in that routine."
@hex_ica2 joked: "The third dancer was Nikita's shirt."
@sema_malik_WL asked: "What the heck happened there?? Nikita gone wild, floating shirt and everything."
@BurgessMoon asked: "#Strictly Wow! Can we now vote for Nikita’s shirt? It had a dance routine of its own there."
And @billiwilliams said: "The bit where Nikita’s shirt got stuck on his mic wire is instantly iconic."
The shirt removal came as a surprise after it wasn't included in their live performance on Saturday (November 28).
And fans found the moment even funnier when they remembered that Tilly's dad TV chef Gordon Ramsay, who was in the studio audience, had earlier in the series jokingly scolded him for having his shirt unbuttoned.
@SaraFregonese said: "I love that #Nikita, having repeatedly been told to button his shirt up by Gordon Ramsay, decided to just flip in the air in the samba dance off, show his full abs on prime time, get the shirt stuck on the mic wire and go out of the competition Bang!"
And @GrianneDoherty1 said: "OMG Nikita full on took off his actual shirt now really? He does know @GordonRamsay is totally still in the audience though right?"
After tearing up the dance floor Tilly and Nikita left the competition after the judges voted to save Rhys Stephenson and his partner Nancy Xu.
@LadyOfAquitaine tweeted: "I think Nikita knew they were going and just went for the fun of it, I love it."
And @tigerfeets agreed: "That's what I thought as soon as he ripped it off - last dance so lets take my shirt off."
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