Jason Gardener: Dancing on Ice judges are "hypocrites"

10 Mar 2010

Dancing on Ice judge Jason Gardener has hit out at his fellow skating judges after Boyzone star Mikey Graham was booted off the show on Sunday.

Gardener has claimed that there is favouritism at work on the show after Daniella Westbrook was saved by three out of the five judges even though she was unable to do her required element.
Gardener and Nicky Slater were the only ones who voted to save Graham even though he managed the required element
Jason Gardener told the Sun "In the skate-off Mikey upped the ante and nailed three solo spins which was the required element. So how you can put through somebody who couldn't get the proper required element?

"Mikey was very graceful and elegant and it was a good solid performance. He was robbed."

He added that "I'm shocked the other judges didn't vote Danniella off - there is no doubt everyone has their favourites now."

Gardener also used his Twitter page to label his fellow judges as "hypocrites".

Graham was booted off the show after scoring just 19 points with the judges for his dance to When you say nothing at all by bandmate Ronan Keating.

Meanwhile, the Boyzone star has revealed who he reckons will be in the final three of the show. He told Digital Spy that he thought the current series was "hard to call".

"I think it is hard to call who will win it. But I think the final will be Hayley [Tamaddon], Gary [Lucy] and Danny [Young]. I think," he said.
"But you know, you can't call it. I didn't think I was going to go out last night. I was surprised. So you just don't know how it is going to go," he added.

Former Emmerdale star Tammadon is still the favourite with the bookies after scoring a perfect 30 points for her Slumgdog Millionaire routine on Sunday's show.

Betdaq are currently offering odds of 13/50 that she will skate off with the trophy. After two weeks in the skate off Daniella Westbrook is the favourite to be eliminated from the show on Sunday with Bluesq giving odds of7/4 that she'll be leaving the show next.

All odds correct at time of writing and are subject to change.