Peter Kay was criticised by Strictly Come Dancing viewers for his appearance on Saturday night’s show, live from Blackpool.
The Bolton comedian had announced his first stand-up tour in eight years earlier in the week, and used an unexpected appearance on Saturday night’s show to remind viewers that tickets went on sale on Sunday morning.
Introduced by a town crier, Kay was supposed to read out terms and conditions for voting on the BBC show. However, Kay instead decided to abandon this halfway through to remind those watching of when tickets for his tour would become available.
Kay, who had also cause mayhem during a pre-recorded appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show, which also aired on Saturday night, didn’t seem to impress many of those watching…
#peterkay #Strictly embarrassing n desperate spring to mind
— delboy (@delsoper) November 18, 2017
Surely Peter Kay has enough money to not have to shamelessly plug his new tour in the way he did. Let himself down there #Strictly #Blackpool
— Andy (@griffmeister255) November 18, 2017
Was Peter Kay drunk? He is so not funny – poor Claudia looked very uncomfortable #strictly#peterkay#hasbeencomic
— Yvonneee (@collins80105291) November 18, 2017
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Peter Kay. Just not funny. #Strictly
— Mike Horne (@recantha) November 18, 2017
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Everyone cheering an laughing at Peter Kay an I'm sitting her like…. #Strictly #scd pic.twitter.com/9lTQZfA1JE
— _Crazed_ (@_Crazed_52) November 18, 2017
Kay, who sparked controversy last year after appearing to make a ‘homophobic’ joke about then contestant Judge Rinder touching him, pretended that the town crier had grabbed his backside.
“Hey. Again. Watch your bell,” he said.
Oh good. Peter Kay here to do some homophobic banter. Excellent. #Strictly
— Laurie (@haurielooper) November 18, 2017
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