Thomas Skinner ‘dropped by agent’ after threatening to sue BBC over Strictly axe

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/thomas-skinner-dropped-agent-after-36439202

by do_or_pie

23 comments

  1. BOSH

    (But seriously, I’m sure they are very happy with getting him off the books after he blew his chance to grow his career on the biggest Saturday night family entertainment show)

  2. If this is the level of celebrity Strictly Come Dancing are dropping to then why not just let normal people take part?

  3. Very curious why this fairly average person is treated like some kind of superstar. Is it too much to hope that he goes away now.

  4. If they actually rigged the votes, they would use that power to keep the bigger names in for longer, not to get the token out early.

  5. His fall from whatever low-grade grace he was at is really brightening my Christmas.

  6. He could’ve taken it with grace, come back for the final, probably grown his following a bit, and continued to build his personal brand and career.

    Now he just looks like a whiney child and unlikely to get invited onto anything else if the producers think there’s a risk he’ll sue and/or make allegations.

  7. Also really hard to believe he is just 34 years old. I would have expected him to be at least 10 years older than that. Just a weird bloke who can’t keep his mouth shut!

  8. Has there actually been anyone from Apprentice who’s not a sociopath?

  9. Wonder how much more new grifting he can do to stay relevant as he’s already pushed as much out as he can

  10. Skinner is a greedy and arrogant man. It wasn’t enough to just pretend to be working class and relentlessly positive he had to go on the right wing grift for even more money. Got high on his own ego.

    He could’ve had a decent career just being the first bit, but it’s never enough for these LinkedIn weirdos.

  12. …who?

    Only reasonable response.

    The only thing the BBC has to apologise for is why The Apprentice gave two particularly despicable individuals a springboard into the public eye. Him and Hopkins were unknowns before then.

  13. Only a matter of time before he gets a slot on GB News because he’s just a salt of the erf fella that likes his breakfast, innit?

  14. Does anyone else know other people with his exact personality and they are all pricks

  15. It followed the normal Strictly voting curve, and it correlates with the Strictly curse

    Weeks 2 – 3 usually votes out people lacking sex appeal (unless that person is causing media attention like John Sargeant)

    Weeks 4 – 5 usually votes out older contestants even if they have sex appeal

    Week 6 usually the last person lacking sex appeal leaves. This will be a funny person or a disabled person. Harsh but true.

    Week 7 – 10 are the tense weeks where the hurdle for sex appeal gets higher and your wife or teenage daughter cries every weekend

    Semi Final is usually another shocker, a clear favourite is voted off, and it was this year lol Your teenage daughter didn’t go to school on Monday because of it. If you ever watched X Factor or BGT, the same thing happens.

    Week 10 we’re still left with sexy appeal, but the people the producers want to work with once the show ends

    John Sargeant played Strictly to his own song

    I feel sorry for Thomas Skinner. He let Strictly treat him like a doormat.

  16. Maybe he should’ve tried doing I’m a celebrity instead. Would’ve had a better chance staying in the show longer, look at how far Farage got 

  17. Apparently he only decided this after speaking to JD Vance who told him to sue

  18. Surely a dancer with an axe would be good light entertainment?

  19. The grift continues, he’ll claim he’s been cancelled then get more gigs because, obvious to see

  20. He’s suing because he got booted off first and is acting like a toddler claiming a fix? How big is his ego? Who has been feeding him ideas of grandeur? I expect next year he’ll be doing the truss, farage Trump trail. 

  22. Does the first sentence in the article make no sense to anyone else or am I reading it wrong

  23. Back into oblivion you go, you had your chance, you blew it

Comments are closed.