Strictly viewers react after beads come loose during Dianne Buswell’s dance

Pearls appeared to come loose from Dianne Buswell’s dress during a Quickstep with Will Best on Strictly Come Dancing, prompting viewers to post about the moment and the possibility of a fall.

Best and Buswell performed to a version of “This Love”, originally recorded by Maroon 5. The programme’s host, Josh Widdicombe, raised the loose decorations after the dance. He joked that Buswell had been “dancing on ball bearings” and said she could have fallen at any moment.

Widdicombe then told the pair to get off the floor and receive their scores. They were awarded 29 points. After the score, Johannes also remarked on the pearls, telling Buswell she had left them on the floor. Best joked that he might go and retrieve them.

Several viewers commented online about the falling beads. One wrote that the timing briefly made them think someone’s tooth had come out. Another said they had felt their “heart was in my mouth” and imagined a nasty accident. A further viewer asked whether Buswell’s dress had “exploded everywhere”.

The performance opened the latest show, in which contestants returned after the previous week’s Halloween special. That edition had featured the competition’s first three-way dance-off. The current series was entering its final weeks, and contestants were hoping to impress judges Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood and Motsi Mabuse.

Actress Jaime Winstone was missing from the week’s line-up after withdrawing with a torn abdominal muscle. Under the programme’s rules, Winstone and her professional partner, Carlos Gu, received a bye through to the following week. A return then was hoped for, but not confirmed.

The results show was scheduled for Sunday at 7.10pm on BBC One and iPlayer.

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