Anton Du Beke has reportedly received a telling off by Strictly Come Dancing producers after he made a cheeky quip during Saturday night’s live show.
The judge, 57, was giving his critiques after Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin‘s incredible Samba.
While praising the pair, he joked that he and his fellow judge Craig Revel Horwood had performed a similar dance move together while naked.
Anton quipped: ‘I said, “Why don’t we try that lift?” So he came at me and I said, “Shouldn’t you put some clothes on?”‘
He then added: ‘The only reason I’m telling you this is because I have nothing to say about this dance — it was pretty much perfect.’
Dressing down: Anton Du Beke has reportedly received a telling off by Strictly Come Dancing producers after he made a cheeky quip during Saturday night’s live show
Scoring: The judge, 57, was giving his critiques after Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin ‘s incredible Samba
Naughty! While praising the pair, he joked that he and his fellow judge Craig Revel Horwood (pictured) had performed a similar dance move together while naked
The audience gasped at the saucy joke and laughed, but the show’s producers weren’t so amused and allegedly told Anton to tone his comments down for the pre-watershed programme.
A source told The Sun: ‘Producers reminded Anton that Strictly is a family show and cheeky, subtle innuendo for the adult viewers is fine but he’d taken things a little too far.’
Viewers at home also took to Twitter to react to the saucy comment, with one writing: ‘Anton is killing me’ with several laughing emojis.
Another added: ‘Still laughing at Anton’s joke story about the ‘lift’ with Craig “he should have put clothes on” Brilliant! Love Anton’s humour’.
A third tweeted: ‘Wow Anton got a dirty mind ha ha’ while a third joked: ‘I’ll never get rid of that image of Anton and Craig now.’
It comes after Eddie Kadi was the fourth contestant to leave Strictly following Sunday’s dance-off with his dance partner Karen Hauer.
The comedian, 40, faced the dreaded dance off against former Love Islander Zara McDermott as both celebrities tried to impress the judges one last time.
But Eddie and Karen had to say their goodbyes after landing at the bottom of the leaderboard after scoring a disappointing 24 out of 40 for their Samba to Calm Down by Rema and Selena Gomez.
Rude: Anton quipped: ‘I said, “Why don’t we try that lift?” So he came at me and I said, “Shouldn’t you put some clothes on?”
Told off: The audience gasped at the saucy joke and laughed, but the show’s producers weren’t so amused and allegedly told Anton to tone his comments down for the pre-watershed programme
Hilarious: Viewers at home also took to Twitter to react to the saucy comment, with one writing: ‘Anton is killing me’ with several laughing emojis
Eddie and Karen were first up to perform in the dance off, before Zara and her dance partner Graziano Di Prima performed their American Smooth to Can’t Fight The Moonlight by LeAnn Rimes.
Motsi Mabuse, Craig and Anton were all in favour of Zara and Graziano, meaning the majority vote saw them through to another week.
Head judge Shirley Ballas also revealed Zara and Graziano had her vote.
Craig said: ‘For me the quality of dance in this couple was far superior and the couple I would like to save is Zara and Graziano.’
Meanwhile, Motsi said: ‘For me, it was extremely close. The quality was actually very, very close. It came down to details and I would love to save Zara and Graziano.’
Anton said: ‘Well, I thought that was an excellent dance off. I thought both couples danced very, very well but for me with a slightly cleaner technique, I’d like to save Zara and Graziano.’
Speaking about his time on the show, Eddie said: ‘I’ve really enjoyed this, it’s something I’ve always wanted to do – I love dancing.
‘This has been the highest moment of my career – it’s the happiest I’ve ever been, but not just for me – my family – my little baby girl is at home doing the Men in Black dance.
Gone: It comes after Eddie Kadi was the fourth contestant to leave Strictly following Sunday’s dance-off with his dance partner Karen Hauer
Farewell: The comedian, 40, faced the dreaded dance off against former Love Islander Zara McDermott as both celebrities tried to impress the judges one last time
‘More importantly, this little African boy, I just wanted my culture to shine. Everything I stand for, when it comes to my comedy, when it comes to my presenting, is based on my culture, is based on my upbringing and I wanted that to shine most importantly.
‘Even more importantly this wonderful Queen [to Karen], there are two parts to this show – we want to entertain, I believe that God has brought this to me, I just want to make people happy and this gem over here has kept me happy – I love you so much God bless you.’
Karen gushed: ‘You are a treasure, I’m going to miss you [to Eddie] – well I’ll see you tomorrow!
‘We’re going to take up Congolese dancing. I just want to thank you so much for being so positive and bringing such light and smiling, just a beauty to all of us, I want to thank you so much.’
Sunday’s results show also featured the professional dancers taking viewers back in time with a fabulous 60s Fosse-inspired number and a special Planet Earth III themed performance of Pompeii from Bastille in the ballroom.
The remaining couples will take to the dancefloor next week for a spook-tacular Halloween special on Saturday October 28 at 6:40pm.
It’s over: But Eddie and Karen had to say their goodbyes after landing at the bottom of the leaderboard after scoring a disappointing 24 out of 40 for their Samba to Calm Down by Rema and Selena Gomez
Live to see another day: Zara and her dance partner Graziano Di Prima performed their American Smooth to Can’t Fight The Moonlight by LeAnn Rimes