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Strictly Come Dancing former professional Ola Jordan has accused the judges of "tying up the leaderboard" to create more drama on the BBC competition. Ola and her husband James Jordan both competed on the show. In this week's dramatic dance-off, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Lauren Oakley left the competition following a dance off against Amber Davies and Nikita Kuzmin . Amber and Nikita performed their Cha Cha Cha to Break Free by Ariana Grande once again whilst Jimmy and Lauren performed their American Smooth to Purple Rain by Prince. Craig Revel Horwood chose to save Amber and Nikita, as did Motsi Mabuse and Shirley Ballas . Anton Du Beke said he too would have saved Amber, and thus Jimmy and Lauren were sent home. Speaking after his exit was revealed, Jimmy said: "I have absolutely loved my experience. I can only say thank you very much for letting me have this experience and to my daughters for pushing me to come here and do this. "I never expected that I would enjoy it this much. The people behind the scenes, from the wardrobe people to the hairdressers to the make-up people, are absolutely magnificent – thank you very much. This experience is going to live with me forever. Most importantly, [to Lauren] this girl, she is just absolutely incredible. She has been absolutely amazing with me ... "The only thing you can do is dance as best as you can and then it’s up to the public. I was actually quite happy to dance again because I wanted to do better than my previous one. So listen, I have had a blast. From the people up there [pointing to the other couples], to the judges – thank you very much for your comments." Now, Ola Jordan has said that she believes the three ties on the leaderboard made the competition more interesting. Asked about the judges scores this week, former Strictly professional Ola Jordan told Mecca Bingo: "I think they were all in the same sort of scoring range. There were three ties on the leaderboard, and that’s the reason we got who we got in the bottom two. "When people are tied, that always happens – and they know it! I just don’t understand why this keeps happening. But anyway, there were three ties on the leaderboard, and that’s why people from the top dropped down." She added: "Maybe that’s what the producers want – people from the top to drop down – so that’s why we got who we got in the bottom two. I guess they just wanted to make it a bit different, see who else could be in the bottom two – so they tied them up." Like this s tory? F or more of the latest showbiz news and gossip, follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok , Snapchat , Instagram , Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and Threads .
