Former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips has said that the current judges are scoring the contestants too highly.

Speaking to The Sun, she said: “The marks are too high – ridiculously high. I’ve done an overall mark for everybody and theirs are nowhere near where mine are.

“I think Craig [Revel Horwood] is the only one marking what he sees – and he gets booed.”

Phillips thinks the judges are being swayed by the dancers acting skills, rather than their dancing ones.

“Natalie Cassidy, Zoe Lucker and Craig Kelly are all actors and they know how to perform,” she explained. “With Natalie she was telling the story so much with her face, I kept missing her feet. It’s a bit like Derren Brown pulling the wool over your eyes.

“If you believe you can dance, you can act it and maybe that’s why they’re getting such high scores. If they carry on like this they’ll have to start marking them out of 20.”