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Originally Posted by patsylimerick

If you're in the sing off and you get four votes to go home, you go home. If you get three votes to go home, you go home. If you get two votes to go home, it goes to deadlock. Treyc got two votes to go home. It didn't go to deadlock. This, to me, was a clear production decision to keep Katie in. The Cheryl fans on here are at pains to argue that Cheryl didn't know they were going to go to her second. Maybe she didn't. The point, however, is that Treyc is her act, she was her mentor. Surely it's her job to protect her act from a blatant injustice, no? And she blatantly didn't. Also, please stop acting like the toilet-attendant puncher is a delicate waif who needs to be defended from criticism. She's laughing all the way to LAX in 1st class at the X Factor fans. She needs to grow some metaphorical balls if she's to maintain any semblance of credibility.

You are still missing the point that I've repeated numerous times today.

Cheryl confirmed she was refused to vote - therefore the rule is her vote is then void. It happened to Sharon in Series 4 and it happend last night. With Cheryl's vote void, there's only three votes left - making it a majority vote. No conspiracies whatsoever. Cheryl wouldn't have been able to object as she quite clearly confirmed, when asked, that she was refusing to vote. Like I said somewhere else, if Dannii had backtracked after she'd voted Katie and said 'oh wait, I've changed my mind, can I send home TreyC?', do you really think they would have allowed it? Or if on 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?', after the contestant has said 'final answer', they changed their mind - do you think they'd be able to change their answer then? No, no they wouldn't. And the same applies here, as it does in most TV shows. The first [or 'final' answer] is set in stone.