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Originally Posted by Jack_

...it's not case of getting into it again, it's pretty obvious. If no one complained the first time it happened why are they complaining now? There is absolutely no way there would be so much fuss if it were Paije VS TreyC...no one cares enough about them to speak out.

And no, because I already believe there is [or would've been] a set rule - just that it was never publicised, it was a sort of 'this is what we will do if for some strange reason this ever happens'. Those sort of things, generally, do not need to be told to the audience of a television show - it's 'backstage rules' essentially. And for Dermot to run through all of that before the Judges vote would not only confuse people, but it would also waste a lot of unnecessary time [time that they're also short of as well]. There's lots of rules in all TV shows that no one knows about - and nobody wants to know about either.

So it's ok for you to comment on solutions even make a thread about it with your own idea on it but not for people who don't like Katie? I don't like Katie but I was just commenting on a newspaper article.

But the problem is most of us took it as a given that the judge who had the 2 acts in would go last, it was done earlier in the series for Simon so it was expected to happen the same for Cheryl. I don't think them clarifying their stance on this would be too much to ask after the controversy and public annoyance it has caused.