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We need to start taking Stevi Ritchie more seriously. At lot of people thought he'd be out but he's survived 3 double eliminations and a single. He's seen off fellow novelty singers Chloe and Blonde Electra, technically better singers like Lola, Jack and Stephanie, younger "heartthrobs" Overload Generation and Jake.

So two questions

1. Would Simon vote to save him if he was against a decent rival e.g. Andrea
2. Could Stevi be topping the votes or amongst top 3 most weeks a la Malonie

In series 2 it's sad that I remember Simon had a spat with his own act the Mcdonald sisters and famously saved Sharon Osborne's Chico in bottom 2. SImon seems to genuinely like SR as a person despite not being a great singer and even did the whole VT Harvester man date thing. Would Simon save SR against his another over eg Ben? Would Simon really save SR against bottom 2 dwellers Stereo Kicks or OTY, or Paul (who Simon seems to want out) or
Andrea or cash cow Lauren???

Second question, could SR be a contender ala Chrisopher Malonie? SR is actually not the worst singer imo. The OTY girls have barely sung in tune in solos (especially brunette Parissa) and apart from talk wonky faced James Stereo Kicks are really poor, especially
Barclay Yoddler and Reece. Stevi is entertaining enough to get votes and cult following but decent enough to get votes for singing. Again he's not good but his Phantom performance was sung better than one or two others. He's yet to appear in bottom 2 so people are voting for him he has got a strong following, and quite a few women seem to fancy him