Vicky Pattison, 37, has finally broken her silence, and she is not holding back.

In a tear-streaked, 2 a.m. Instagram Live that has already been viewed more than 14 million times, the former Geordie Shore star and I’m A Celebrity queen revealed the devastating truth about the “Black Sunday” elimination that has left Strictly Come Dancing fans threatening to boycott the BBC.

“It’s the most unfair, gut-wrenching thing that’s ever happened to me on television, and I once ate a kangaroo anus for a bushtucker trial,” she said, voice cracking. “I’m absolutely broken.”

What happened on Sunday night has already gone down as the single most chaotic results show in Strictly’s 20-year history, and it started hours before anyone was supposed to know the outcome.

At 4:47 p.m., while the celebrity-professional couples were still doing their final group dance rehearsal inside Elstree Studios, a now-deleted tweet from an account claiming to be a “BBC runner” posted the exact bottom-two names and the final vote result. Within eight minutes the spoiler was everywhere: Reddit, TikTok, private WhatsApp groups, even the Daily Mail homepage. By 6 p.m. the hashtag #SaveVickyAndNeil was the number-one trend worldwide.

The leaked result? Vicky Pattison and her partner Neil Jones, despite a near-perfect Argentine Tango the night before that earned a standing ovation and three 10s, were in the dance-off against a couple who had been in the bottom two three times already this series.

Then came the judges’ save.

In what viewers are calling “the most tone-deaf moment in Strictly history,” Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke all chose to save the other couple, leaving head judge Shirley Ballas no casting vote. Vicky and Neil were eliminated.

The studio audience booed so loudly that producers had to cut to an unscheduled VT package. Host Tess Daly looked visibly shaken. Even Claudia Winkleman appeared close to tears as she hugged Vicky goodbye.

Speaking from her Newcastle home less than 48 hours later, Vicky told fans: “I knew something was wrong the second we walked out for the results. The energy in the room was… weird. People in the audience were shouting ‘It’s rigged!’ before Tess even opened the envelope. Someone screamed ‘We know what you’ve done!’ I thought they were joking. Then I saw grown men crying in the front row. That’s when I realised the result had leaked while we were still dancing.”

She continued: “Neil and I were told to go straight into the dance-off. No warning, no ‘you’re in danger’ chat backstage like normal. They just marched us out. I looked at Neil and said, ‘Babe, I think we’re going home.’ He squeezed my hand and said, ‘Then we’re going out with the best bloody tango they’ve ever seen.’ And we did.”

Their redemption Argentine Tango was so ferocious the desk cameras shook when Neil flung Vicky into that final lift. Len Goodman’s old paddle graphic would have exploded. The audience gave another standing ovation. Bookmakers immediately suspended betting on Vicky winning the series the following week.

And then the judges still sent her home.

“Craig said my ‘frame slipped 2 millimetres on the third gancho.’ Two millimetres! I’ve never wanted to swear on live television so badly in my life,” Vicky laughed through tears. “Motsi said she’d ‘already made a promise’ to the other couple weeks ago. Anton said he was saving ‘the journey.’ Shirley didn’t even get a vote. I just stood there thinking: I have bled for this show. I’ve had bruised ribs, a torn calf, I’ve trained through migraines. And it ends because of a promise made in week four?”

The backlash has been seismic. More than 8,000 Ofcom complaints were filed within 24 hours. A Change.org petition titled “Bring Back Vicky & Neil – Reinstate the Glitterball Vote” has surpassed 250,000 signatures. Even Piers Morgan weighed in, calling it “the biggest fix since 2008’s John Sergeant scandal, but worse.”

Vicky, however, refuses to call it rigged.

“I don’t think the judges knew the spoiler had leaked,” she said carefully. “I think they made a decision based on whatever criteria they use when they’re exhausted and emotional. But the BBC should have stopped the show the moment they realised the result was out there. They could have delayed transmission, done an emergency public vote, anything. Instead they ploughed on and let us get humiliated in front of 11 million people who already knew we were gone.”

She saved her most devastating line for last.

“Neil cried in the car on the way home. Neil Jones. The man who smiles through everything. He kept saying, ‘I’m so sorry, Vicks. I let you down.’ Let me down? He carried me for twelve weeks. He turned a loudmouth Geordie who can barely walk in heels into someone who got three 10s from Craig Revel bloody Horwood. If anyone was let down, it was him.”

As for the future, Vicky says she’s “done with ballroom for a while” but has a warning for the BBC.

“You cannot treat your celebrities like disposable glitter. We leave our families, we break our bodies, we open our hearts to the public every Saturday night. And when the public screams loud enough to break the internet trying to save us, you have to listen.”

She ended her Live with a promise that sent the comment section into meltdown:

“Neil and I have one more dance left in us. We’re going to do it somewhere bigger than Elstree. Somewhere the judges can’t save anyone but the crowd can. Watch this space.”

Within minutes, the O2 Arena, Wembley, and even Blackpool Tower Ballroom started trending with fans begging for “The People’s Final.”

Strictly Come Dancing returns next Saturday. But for millions of viewers, the real show already ended the moment Vicky Pattison was robbed in front of the entire country.

And this time, nobody’s forgetting it.