Strictly tops X Factor and I'm A Celebrity in Sunday TV ratings.

Strictly Come Dancing won the Sunday night triple TV battle as it went up against the X Factor and the new series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.

Strictly's results show, which aired first in the line-up at 7.20pm, averaged 10.4 million viewers, with 43.2% of the audience share.

The show peaked with 11.2 million viewers as fans saw BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine miss out on a place at Blackpool's Tower Ballroom next week after being sent home.

The new series of ITV's I'm A Celebrity, which aired at 9pm, did not manage to overtake Strictly, averaging just 9.8 million viewers and 44% of the audience share.

While the share is up year on year from 43%, the show pea ked with 11.1 million viewers, still slightly short of Strictly.

The X Factor, sandwiched in-between the two others, aired on ITV at 8pm and garnered 7.3 million viewers, with a 30% share and a 100,000 increase from the previous Sunday.

The show peaked with 8.7 million viewers and was not short of drama as host Olly Murs had to apologise following an on-air blunder.

Murs said he was a "plonker" following the incident which saw him telling a contestant she was going home before the official result was announced.

He accidentally told Monica Michael she was eliminated, prompting his co-host Caroline Flack to say: "No Olly, she's not."



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