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Will this years highest scorer fail to win the series????
Mr_XcX
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For the past few years now on Strictly the contestants that do well the first couple of weeks and appear contenders to be guaranteed the win have never won the show. Do we think the same will happen this year???
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What I meant was.
The early front runners from the series. Like
Pamela / Jason / Denise / Natalie.
All failed to win cause many thought they had no where to go.
LOL
Every year I love the millions of DS users who post. "OMG she is such a dirty ringah she went to Drama school so she must have learnt DANCE!!!!" The horror >:(
Look forward to this seasons......
All lost because younger celebs finished more strongly? This is popularity content and we don't see who is actually top of the public vote until the final, and given last years result it may well change during the final. The judges votes in the early weeks have nothing to do with the final outcome, despite all the conspiracy theories about the producers manipulating the audience.
There is only one factor that counts - the "X factor", as the Strictly final is on one week after X-factor is finished.
All the tweenies who were obsessed with X-Factor now have nothing to vote for - so latch onto the Strictly contestant that appeals to them the most.
hence most recent winners
Abbey - younger WAG
Louis - Sporty hunk
Harry Judd - boyband hunk
Kara - young actress who played a "nice" soap character.
Consider this year's finalists appeal to a 14 year old Tweenie
Sophie - who? I wasn't born when she had hits
Susanna Reid - she's like so old - it's like my Mum trying to dance
Natalie - oh she's that horrible Kirstie who beat up Tyrone - I hate her.
These voters have not seen any previous shows so have not got to "know" the contestants like the rest of us regular viewers.
Nobody who had watched Strictly last year could possibly have confused Natalie with her "nasty" character from Corrie, she was warm, sparkling and just loving being able to dance with Artem. (I was not a "fan" of hers btw but appreciated how good she got and how much she loved dancing)
Until they "carry over" the public votes from all the previous shows into the final - the winner will be decided by the "X-factor" vote.
This theory doesn't stand at all.
That's not true. I remember you say the same exact thing last year. The problem is that you have really no way of knowing who votes and I think that you are far on the left with your assumptions.Just like the other person who posted above me, I voted for ALL of these winners and I'm not a teen.
It's always been a soap star popularity contest, which really annoys me as I avoid soaps like the plague!
The best DANCER should always win, not the one with the highest 'celeb' following. We've seen so many 'best' dancers not win over the years that it makes a mockery of the series.
The thing is, when you have a competition where a public vote is involved, popularity and likeability will come into it. Jason/Denise/Natalie might have been technically good, but the 'likeability' wasn't there. I also think that when a celeb is regularly at the top of the judges' leaderboard, viewers will think "There's no need to vote for him/her - even if he/she ends up in the dance-off, the judges will save him/her".
I have given up expecting the judges' scores to reflect either the quality of the dancing or the identity of the eventual winner. It is a pantomime, and I have to remind myself of this every year. My two favourite winners remain Alesha and Kara, neither of whom got a perfect score despite being responsible for some of my favourite dances that I re-watch on a regular basis. On the other hand, their average score over their respective series put them firmly in front so they were, technically, the highest scorers.
Johartuk is right - there has to be a combination of good dancing and likeable personality for the GBP to vote.