STRICTLY Come Dancing's second live show was hit by technical issues this evening, forcing Tess Daly to apologise.

The 50-year-old host reminded fans that the BBC series is filmed live after the sound and visuals cut out as it kicked off.

Thankfully, the glitches occurred before the first couple, Saffron Barker and AJ Pritchard, hit the dancefloor and did not have too much of an impact on fans' viewing experiences.

While Tess and her co-host, Claudia Winkleman made their way down the stairs to introduce the programme, viewers' screens repeatedly cut to black as sound cut out.

The difficulties happened again when the 15 celebrities were welcomed onto the dance floor.

After Saffron and AJ's smouldering Cha-Cha-Cha, Tess took a moment to address the problems before going over to the judges for their comments.

She said: "We do apologise to any viewers who may have experienced any transmission problems."

The star added: "We are very sorry, but we are a live show."

Fans at home flocked to Twitter to criticise the blunder, with one retorting: "Tess blaming glitches on being live, we are in 2019 now not the 1960s."

Another added: "Argh. The signal cutting out keeps giving me mini panic attacks."

A third wrote: "Strictly having technical issues, sort it out!"

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