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Thomas Skinner has finally spoken out on social media after creating a first in Strictly Come Dancing history by storming out of its roundtable interviews. The star of The Apprentice was being interviewed alongside the rest of the 2025 line-up by journalists at BBC's Elstree Studios on Tuesday afternoon when he abruptly left.

The contestant seized a reporter's phone after being asked a question, despite their request for him to stop. He had joined the table of journalists with fellow contestant Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

A female journalist had asked Skinner about his motivation for joining Strictly, but it seemed the reality TV star took issue with being recorded on a phone during the press event. "What's that?" Skinner demanded, before picking up the woman's phone and removing it

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