Hollyoaks actor Ricky Whittle has admitted that he would love to see this year’s Strictly Come Dancing voting results.

The star, who came second on last weekend’s final of the show, called for BBC show to release the figures in a similar fashion to The X Factor.

“They never tell us and I don’t think they ever will, which is a bit of a shame,” The Guardian quotes him as saying.

“At the end of the day it’s a public channel. X Factor came out with all the stats and it would be nice to see how the voting was going to see what people were doing right and wrong.”

A BBC spokesman said: “We never reveal exact figures from our shows as we have a relationship of trust with our contestants and it would be unfair to disclose the exact nature of difference in their popularity.”