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Lottie Gibbons

Strictly's Greg Wise felt Craig Revel Horwood had 'little appreciation' for him

Strictly Come Dancing's Greg Wise said he felt judge Craig Revel Horwood had 'little appreciation' for him.

Greg was the third celebrity contestant to be eliminated from the competition.

The Sense and Sensibility actor and his partner Karen Hauer landed in the dance-off against Judi Love and Graziano Di Prima, who faced their second week dancing to stay in the competition.

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But Greg's samba to Macarena by Los Del Rio was not enough to keep him in the show, with judges Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke all opting to save Judi, meaning they received the majority vote to keep them in the competition.

Head judge Shirley Ballas said she would have voted to save Wise and Hauer.

She said: "Well I counted all the mistakes and from what I saw I would have saved Greg and Karen."

During Saturday night's show, Craig gave Greg and Karen a score of three for their routine.

Craig said: "It did look like you'd just come out of a double hip replacement operation, very clunky, and especially through the hip circles, technically really quite bad actually... I loved the shirt, I loved the smile."

On Strictly's spin-off show It Takes Two, host Rylan asked Greg what he made of Craig's comments.

Rylan said: "We need to talk about Craig, he was in a foul mood on Saturday night and the words he used to describe your routine were 'it was a little bit like you had a double hip replacement'."

Greg said: "For whatever reason, there was little appreciation of what I was bringing to the party for the whole of the four weeks from Craig."

Rylan said: "And he gave you a three, what was all that about?"

Greg said: "And he gave us a three for the disco number as well that I'd done for my dead sister."

Rylan said: "Come on, that [has] to be more than a three."

Karen said they at least deserved a five or a seven for their performance.

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