Former Olympic hockey player Sam Quek and her professional dance partner Nikita Kuzmin have been eliminated from this year's series of Strictly Come Dancing. Quek and Kuzmin were defeated in the dance-off by former Olympian Montell Douglas.
Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] Shirley Ballas was forced to make a last minute outfit change after animal rights charity PETA slammed the BBC show for its use of feathers.
But it has now been revealed that the red dress was actually meant to be adorned with ostrich feathers - which had to be hurriedly plucked off in between filming. Last week PETA complained to the BBC about the use of bird plumage in the show's costumes, a practice which is often painful and sometimes fatal for birds
The animal rights' organisation says the 'gory, not glamorous' use of bird feathers has 'no place on the dancefloor'.Fashion designers such as Stella McCartney have added feathers to their list of banned items and made a pledge to go feather-free.
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