[Adamw92]

What a joke. Cheryl said she would vote to send it to deadlock, she didn't say she wouldn't vote.

[BJ]

If Louis had voted to send Katie home, would Cheryl have voted - you bet she would have

[Jamietwo]

yeah i noticed that....hehe they really ****ed up tonight , love it

[_Seth]

They need to do something about this.

[StGeorge]

Cheryl quite clearly said "ask the other two and i will take it to deadlock"

Dermot chipped in that it would be a majority vote then.

Farce..*****up..fix.

[Jack_]

Christ almighty, what is difficult to understand?

Cheryl refused to vote, so the producer in Dermot's ear would have explained that Cheryl has thus essentially lost her role as a Judge [temporarily] and as such there's now only three Judges, making it a majority vote. He then stated 'it's now a majority vote' - which is what I've just explained, and then Cheryl then stated 'but if you come back to me I'll take it to deadlock', by which time it was too late. And even if it wasn't too late, if you refuse to vote when you are asked, it's obviously a rule that you lose your vote.

I cannot fathom what is difficult to understand about this...

[GiRTh]

But Cheryl clearly said she's vote if she'd take it to deadlock

During the inevitable backlash I think this will be one of the main talking points. Should it have been a majority or should it have gone to deadlock.