Strictly confidential: judge Craig Revel Horwood confesses he covered up the wrong score

 
Programme Name: Strictly Come Dancing - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. n/a) - Embargoed for publication until: 08/09/2012 - Picture Shows: Judge, Craig Revel Horwood - (C) BBC - Photographer: Ray Burmiston
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15 January 2013
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Craig Revel Horwood has confessed he once accidentally held up the wrong score while judging Strictly Come Dancing - then found fault with the contestant to avoid admitting his blunder.

The notoriously hard-to-please panelist says he aimed to give a seven, a generous score for him, but ended up giving a four to one poor dancer.

Revel Horwood admitted the gaffe during BBC2's Sarah Millican Television Programme to be screened tomorrow.

"Of course, because it was a low score I then had to find as many things wrong with it as I could," he said.

The choreographer did not name the hapless contestant.

"I remember it was a four but I wanted to give a seven, you see, so it was a bit of a disaster."

He added: "It's live television - what can you do, darling?"

Millican also dresses as a naughty nurse as she teams up with guests from BBC1 series Casualty for a comedy sketch.

She is joined by Tony Marshall, Suzanne Packer, Charles Dale and Azuka Oforka from the show as she uses a defibrillator on a patient who is wheeled on to the show.

Packer, who plays Casualty's Tess Bateman, told how viewers asked her for medical advice in real life.

"It normally happens to me on a Saturday morning when I have popped out to the DVD store in my pyjamas and someone asks me about their piles," she said.

:: The Sarah Millican Television Programme is screened on BBC2 tomorrow at 10pm.

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