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Originally Posted by Santa Goth

The ringers tend to do poorly in the public votes on average, so if anything they're disadvantaged in the competition where it counts.

Not usually a disadvantage ……These past winners all had a lot of or some previous dance experience.

Alesha Dixon
Kara Tointon
Tom Chambers
Abbey Clancy
Caroline Flack
Jay McGuiness
Kelvin Fletcher
Bill Bailey
Jill Halfpenny
Jay McGuiness


I'm not sure if the average casual viewer even thinks about/knows who has previous dance experience and who hasn't, they likely just consider how well they are progressing from week 1 onwards and base their opinions on that.