BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Sarah Hadland in tears as she makes rare family admission

The Miranda actress broke down as she opened up about her daughter

Sarah Hadland was seen fighting back tears as she explained how she was dancing for her daughter on the live episode of Strictly Come Dancing. The Miranda star's week four routine for the BBC show saw her dance to Billie Eilish's Birds Of A Feather with partner Vito Coppola.

In a backstage VT, Sarah explained just how much the song meant to her as she wiped away tears and got emotional. "What does this song mean to you?" Vito asked his celebrity partner.

A tearful Sarah replied: "It's about my family, and it's about me and my little one. This song is special to us because we sing it together and we also have a little picture of us both as birds that we made together.

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"It will be really lovely to show how I feel in the dance." Despite viewers calling Sarah one of the best dancers in the competition and loving the performance, they were very unhappy over her scores - just 27 points out of 40.

Fans were livid as Sarah and Vito received lower marks than Shayne Ward who opened the show, who was given a genrous 30 points. Head judge Shirley told her: "I love the role reversal when you changed from man to lady and actually had to take on the leader role.

"That is very, very brave indeed...this was a lovely performance."

Anton was booed as he said her steps were short, so she was 'trotting' instead of 'gliding'. He added: "Your actual dancing is beautiful, you dance beautifully...but work on striding out."

Fans took to X to comment. One wrote: "if Sarah was worse than Shayne then I'm a f****** puffin, this scoring is b******."

A second wrote: "NOT CRAIG GIVING SARAH A 6 & SHAYNE A 7," while a third said: "Shane and Nancy was in no way better than Sarah and Vito. #strictly."

A fourth asked: "Why do the judges hate Sarah pls #strictly."