Thomas Skinner has doubled down on his claim that the Strictly Come Dancing voting was rigged to boot him off show while on Tuesday’s episode of Good Morning Britain.

The Apprentice star, 34, who took part in the 23rd series of the BBC dance competition alongside partner Amy Dowden, 35, caught up with Susanna Reid, 55, and Ed Balls, 58, on the latest instalment of the ITV show.

Thomas and Amy were the first to be voted off the programme, and he ended up pulling out of the finale last month, which saw Karen Carney, 38, lift the Glitterball trophy alongside partner Carlos Gu, 33.

Back in December it was reported that he was ‘seeking legal advice’ after he claimed ‘BBC bosses rigged official voting figures.‘

Ed asked the reality star in the studio: ‘Some of our viewers who will think that you still believe the vote was rigged against you? Is that what you believe?’

Thomas – who shot to fame on The Apprentice in 2019 – told the hosts: ‘Look, listen, all I am going to say is I’ve got a lot of bad noise in the press, I was front page every day, it wasn’t good for the show.

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Thomas Skinner has doubled down on the claim that the Strictly Come Dancing voting was rigged to boot him off show while on Tuesday’s episode of Good Morning Britain

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The Apprentice star, 34, caught up with Susanna Reid, 55, and Ed Balls, 58, on the latest instalment of the ITV show

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The Apprentice star took part in the 23rd series of the BBC dance competition alongside partner Amy Dowden, 35

‘I know I can’t dance, I know I can’t dance. I enjoyed dancing with Amy because she’s an absolute legend.

‘All I’m going to say is whenever I put something on social media, I get like 20 million views and about 200,000 likes.

‘Do you know what I mean?’

Susanna read out that the BBC said: ‘Strictly Come Dancing’s public vote is independently over seen and verified to ensure complete accuracy every week.’

Last month Thomas said on X: ‘On the night I left the show, I received an anonymous email claiming to be from a BBC exec with stats, saying I’d received far more votes than it appeared and it wasn’t right. I’ve since had the email independently verified.’

It was later reported an independent poll showed the star received just 1.4% of the public vote, despite his claims he received an anonymous email of evidence proving otherwise.

The exit poll of 125K viewers was conducted by website Strictly Spoiler and is completely separate from the BBC main vote. The poll showed ‘clear evidence of his unpopularity’ after he received just 1805 votes, the lowest of all the contestants.

A source told The Mirror at the time: ‘The poll – which is larger than an exit poll for a- comprehensively shows that Skinner was the least popular contestant by a long way. There is no conspiracy. These are the cold, hard facts’.

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Thomas and Amy were the first to be voted off the show, and he ended up pulling out of the finalelast month, which saw Karen Carney, 38, lift the Glitterball trophy alongside partner Carlos Gu, 33

Thomas and Amy scored 29 out of 80 over two shows and landed in the bottom two with former rugby player Chris Robshaw, who was eventually saved by the judges.

A BBC spokesperson said last month: ‘Strictly Come Dancing’s public vote is independently overseen and verified to ensure complete accuracy every week. Any claims to the contrary are entirely without foundation.

‘Unfortunately, despite requests for it, Mr Skinner is yet to share the email he references with anyone from the BBC so we are unable to comment on it’.

In addition, PromoVeritas – the company who independently verify the Strictly public vote – said: ‘All votes are independently and comprehensively verified by two auditors. We can confirm that all votes received are validated. This has been the case every week.’

Thomas also opened up about his unlikely friendship with the US vice president JD Vance, 41, while on GMB.

‘Basically he sent me a message on Instagram or Twitter, he said I love your videos, I love your motivation,’ Thomas explained to the hosts.

‘I’m a bit of a fan, can we meet up for a pint when I come to the UK?’

He travelled to the Cotswolds with his family and had a nice day out with them, and then in the evening changed into a suit, was picked up and they went to David Cameron’s old house.

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The US vice-president, 41, is pals with none other than Thomas Skinner, 34, (pictured) and even invited him to hang out

‘There was a local pub he wanted to try, but he didn’t want to shut the pub down so he employed the people to cook the food in the house, in the garden,’ Thomas recalled.

Thomas previously wrote on X: ‘When the Vice President of the USA invites ya for a BBQ an beers, you say yes.

‘Unreal night with JD and his friends n family. He was a proper gent. Lots of laughs and some fantastic food.

‘A brilliant night, one to tell the grand kids about mate. Bosh.’