Strictly Come Dancing's professional dancers have reportedly threatened to quit the upcoming tour after finding out they wouldn't be getting a pay rise.
Last year's runner-up runner-up Pasha Kovalev is threatening to walk out on the Strictly Come Dancing tour (Picture: BBC/PA)
The ballroom pros are threatening to walk out after the show's bosses sent round an email informing them their £5,500-a-week wages would not be going up ahead of the 2013 tour, which is due to kick off in January.
Seven stars - including last year's winner Aliona Vilani, runner-up Pasha Kovalev and Kristina Rihanoff - are instead demanding £8,000 a week.
Yesterday Strictly chiefs put in a counter offer of £6,000, but this has been declined by the professionals, who argue the celebrity dancers earn more wedge for less work.
'The pro dancers work like dogs on tour. As well as dancing, they are responsible for choreography and preparing the celebrities for the performance,' an insider told The Sun.
'Some dancers feel the bosses have forgotten they are household names in their own right.'
It's hoped the likes of Denise van Outen, Kimberley Walsh, Lisa Riley, Dani Harmer and Louis Smith will join the tours line-up, but if the big name dancers refuse to sign up it's feared ticket sales will slump.
A tour spokesman said: 'The tour is not in jeopardy. All dates will proceed as advertised.'
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