Sky News reports:

Thousands of people who voted in the Saturday night final of ITV’s Dancing on Ice have been told their text votes were not counted.

Phone giant Vodafone has said that 11,500 texts were not delivered to ITV until Monday morning and customers received a message that their vote was too late.

Voters will be automatically refunded if their vote did not arrive in time to be included in the final count, the company has said.

ITV claimed the missing texts represented less than 1% of the votes cast on Saturday night and would not have affected the outcome of the contest, which was won by former England rugby ace Kyran Bracken.

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A statement from the television company said: “Vodafone have assured us that this was an isolated problem.

“With almost one-and-a-half million votes cast, these late votes would not have changed the result of any part of the competition.”