is he?


or is someone close to him, spam voting with thousands of simcards :suspect:



Jamie could've easily won the dance off against him


Wynne could've even easily won the dance off against him at blackpool

pretty sure Pete will get to the final now

no matter how good or bad he dances


britain's own Bobby Bones or Sean Spicer more like :idc: :yuk:

I think Pete clearly has a good number of votes in from the public.
From last place at this stage with the judges to not be in the bottom 2 is quite something.

Doesn't matter how many are voting for him, it's down to how many votes whoever is voting for him actually gives him.
I like Pete actually.

I'm probably though backing Sarah now.
After Jamie going, that was really awful him going this week.

I'm really sorry but I don't want to see a Chris win this series.
I do admire his work and efforts on the show but taking that he's blind out of the equation, I don't see that much extra special in his routines, sorry for that.

Chris and Pete have been at the bottom a lot with the judges, and it's the public that have kept them in, on the other hand Jamie has not been voted for by the public.

in terms of the dance off result

Jamie's foxtrot it was beautiful but up against MoJo's quickstep, i also felt they gave it that extra bit of oomph

tbh stand by me is a classic and lovely tune, but nothing really wow you can do with that either

while get happy also a classic tune, but you can do more with that, and MoJo did get everything out of that they could've


i really don't know why Montell isn't liked by more people, she's a fabulous dancer and i personally like her personality, but yeah maybe she plateau'd a little after her fab couples choice routine, also i find her quite a nice allrounder although more a ballroom girl than a latin girl

i guess this was so much bad luck for Jamie this week

a combination of

1) being undermarked, due to high judges expectations for whatever reason

2) a not too standout routine

3) having high vote getters Chris, Pete below you on the leaderboard

Pete could easily make the final.

I want JB in the final.

Except that he hypothetically could've finished 4th in the vote and because of the leaderboard placing him low on the leaderboard, he then ends up in the bottom two.

The leaderboard this series has manipulated quite a few popular contestants out of the Show that most likely were not in the bottom two in the public vote on the nights that they were eliminated.

if Pete makes the final, cancel this show for good, and don't allow any other channel to take it over either


go obsess over the politics since that is what UK only cares about, VOTE VOTE VOTE

Yes that's true. The show is heavily manipulated to get the people they want out.

It really is imo.

Especially this series, it's really noticeable what they're doing to get certain contestants to be eliminated.

Like with Jamie for example they just placed him right near the three most popular contestants on the leaderboard, making it almost impossible for him to avoid the bottom two.

they stitched up Jamie with confusing comments, bottom three of the leaderboard

a not too memorable routine (nothing more Michelle could've done with this music choice honestly)

do think he should've used his couples choice, but apparently he didn't want to, since that isn't an official dance style and he only wanted to do from the latin/ballroom or specialty dances

maybe that didn't sit right with production either :think:

They did the same with Nigel last year. But I suspect Nigel was top two of the vote. So was never in danger of the dance off.

Sam also left too soon. Deserved to stay longer.

they could've on purposely undermarked Nigel too in a later stage of the competition, if he wasn't forced to withdraw due to injury

they had a lot of expectations for him week by week, while similar to Jamie now i also thought he delivered strong routines

leading up to that too dangerous charleston mary poppins routine where he injured himself, kinda the judges were to blame for that, due to huge expectations

I suspect that both Nigel and Annabel were more popular with the public than all of the final three last year.

Oh definitely. Probably top two with the public. Nigel could have won if he wasn't injured.

I agree, she gave out some memorable routines imo.

Especially her Jive and Paso dances.:laugh:

Again with Sam they did some dirty shenanigans on the night she left, knowing that she was probably polling between 5th and 6th in the public vote.

- Stick her just above Chris and Pete on the leaderboard, knowing that they get more votes than her.

- Place Jamie just above her, again knowing that he gets more votes than Sam.

- Put Tasha, JB, and Montell are out of reach, so that she can't catch them.

- Put Shayne a couple of places ahead of her on the leaderboard, knowing that Sam will only be able to beat Shayne by a limited number of places in the public vote.

- Wynne who I suspect normally polled less than Sam in the public vote, being given a gimmicky operatic segment in his routine to draw attention to him, and attention is a good thing to have when there's 10 contestants in the competition.

Basically the production had to do quite a bit to get Sam out, but in fairness she probably was going to genuinely hit the bottom two within the next couple of rounds anyway.

Where as I do think that Jamie was growing a bigger fanbase than what he had at the start of the series, it would've been interesting to see where that would've taken him instead of someone like Montell who is Strictly's version of Katie Waissel at this point.

If the public vote and the Judges have no input you will simply get those with the largest followers get through week after week regardless of their dancing talent.
I mean fan base counts for a lot anyway but without the Judges vote it would be worse.

The judges are just using the leaderboard in this series to remove contestants that might potentially inherit eliminated contestants fans.

They felt threatened in particular by what seemed to be a growing fanbase for Jamie.

Sorry i don't see that, so what you are saying they should have marked Jamie at the top to keep him in.

I think that they shouldn't have been shielding the top three of the leaderboard by deliberating placing Jamie by all of the top three vote getters with the public.

I honestly don't believe that there was really that much of a difference between Jamie, Montell, and Tasha on the night for example.

And tbh I didn't think that JB was that great on the night either.

Basically my point is that the points should've been closer than what they were for Jamie on the night with the leaderboard.

Imo it's absurd that someone that I think was definitely out polling Montell, and I suspect that he was also getting more votes than JB and Tasha, is being sent home when he was possibly the 4th most popular contestant remaining.