Strictly's Catherine Tyldesley refuses to rewatch doomed dance and compares exit to 'divorce'

A tearful Catherine Tyldesley struggled to rewatch her doomed Strictly dance tonight and compared her exit to a "divorce".

The former Coronation Street actress and partner Johannes Radebe were brutally kicked out of the competition after losing out to Mike and Katya in the dance-off on Saturday.

Their exit sparked fury for some, who were angry that head judge Shirley Ballas chose to save the latter couple.

Appearing on It Takes Two today, Catherine admitted that she was "gutted" to be out of the dancing competition.

Catherine Tyldesley was in tears over her exit (BBC)

The pair had to rewatch their Cha Cha again (BBC)

As they began to air a clip of their dance, Catherine gasped and exclaimed: "Let's not... no!"

Meanwhile Johannes admitted that he had been worried that they would be in the dance-off after landing at the bottom of the leaderboard.

Catherine said she was gutted to be out (BBC)

However they were ecstatic to make it to Halloween week (BBC)

"I was very worried. i became a student and she became a teacher," he explained. "She said 'Listen, we're going to go out there and have fun!'"

Catherine added about her exit: "I feel like I've gone through a divorce and I've got Jojo!

"Friendship for life, it's absolutely phenomenal."

Earlier today, Mike confessed that he'd received online abuse and trolling because he was saved over Catherine.

However judge Craig hit out at the nasty online comments and defended saving the sports presenter.

Catherine and Johannes Radebe were sent home (BBC)

He also suggested it was the right decision to send Catherine home over Mike, not regretting his dance-off vote.

He told hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on This Morning today: "They are [all so good] and the ones who weren’t so good have sort have gone really, and now it's quite even stevens.

"It really is up to the audience to start voting and deciding who they don’t want in that bottom two."

On backlash over Catherine's exit: "This is the problem with Catherine leaving and what seems to be a great controversy... and it’s not.

"I don’t see it that way at all, in my opinion Mike was better, just on the night.

"If she had been dancing, I’ve got to be honest, the rumba against him, then she would have nailed it and gone straight through.”

*Strictly: It Takes Two airs weekdays at 6.30pm on BBC Two

"I'm gutted. I kind of thought, hoped that we had a couple of weeks left," Catherine told host Rylan Clark-Neal. "I struggled with the Cha Cha, it was evil!"