Strictly Come Dancing audience told to 'calm down' as BBC viewers pick up on 'annoying' habit

Strictly Come Dancing viewers have urged the audience to stop booing judges during the live show.

On Saturday night boos could be heard from those watching in the studio as Craig Revel Horwood delivered some harsher feedback to Paralympian Jody Cundy following his routine.

The audience later booed Shirley Ballas as she criticised Nigel Harman's Viennese Waltz - prompting the head judge to snap back '"hold on a minute, you might learn something."

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And the booing was noticed by viewers watching the show at home who have now demanded it stop - saying they are trained professionals giving constructive feedback.

@Isla_Skinner wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: "Ok folks can we calm down on the boo ‘trained dancer’ thing? Quite a few have got some kind of level and type of dance experience, some have acting - important too - some musically gifted, some great athleticism/strength etc etc - all in the mix."

@Hannanar added: "I hate when the audience boo… that was really good constructive feedback from a very accomplished dancer and they just boo over her. That will help him moving forward, it’s good stuff, grow up."

@CatWithSausages added: "All the booing is a bit annoying, for crying out loud let the judges give constructive criticism! It's there to help them improve", while @hulme_steph posted: "What really bugs me is when a judge, mainly Craig, says anything bad or give low scores and they immediately get booed. Like the audience can't handle the truth. I mean booing is awful and only acceptable for panto baddies."

And @JillyBrum simply pleaded: "Stop the booing - how else will he learn???"

Saturday's show was the second live show of the series. It saw Layton