[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by fingers

I used 5,000 as a more realistic figure but if you think that they could ever get close to 5,000,000 well good for you!

I will reveal a bit of information to you, which you may laugh at but none-the less it is a fact.

Over the week of the final I cast around 100 votes just myself,I watched the final with 19 other people who when voting for their favourites also voted at least 25 times each.

My family,near all my family, also made multiple votes for their favourites too,I think my figures would be nearer the mark than yours. If they only got the figures voting you are suggesting, we wouldn't ever have these shows to vote in, it wouldn't be worth their while at all.

5000 votes for instance would only bring in £1750 total,it wouldn't even go anywhere near covering some of the lines needed for voting let alone bring revenue to the programme.