Ali and Brian
Chris and Ola
Jade and Ian
Laila and Anton
Natalie and Vincent
Ricky and Erin
Ricky and Natalie

Hi Mods can we have a sticky poll for this week please and last week's can be unstuck?

Thanks!

Jade & Ian

Jade and Ian - although feel slightly harsh after tonight

Hope she recovers to rejoin the show.

I'm torn between Natalie and Vincent and Ricky and Natalie. Leaning towards Ricky and Natalie cos I don't like either half of that couple whereas I like Vincent.

Ricky and Natalie.

Ricky and Erin - he pulled it off again in the dance off, it's close, but next to go

Natalie and Vincent

Natalie and Vincent for me

Natalie & Vincent. I would have preferred Tuffers to have stayed rather than them.

It is getting harder to choose, but the couple I would miss the least is Ricky and Erin.

Natalie and Vincent

Natalie and Ricky, as the competition progresses its actually Natalie i mind the most, there's just something about her that makes me grit my teeth

Natalie & Vincent

Natalie &Vincent. Ick.

Laila & Anton.

But they didn't take part.

In fact I see Jade and Ian have garnered 6 votes even though they didn't dance, due to a clearly serious injury.

How odd.

Natalie & Vincent

Ali & Brian for me!

I'm aware they didn't take part.

Has it occurred to you that their failure to impress me with any dancing this week - be it because of 'serious injury' or otherwise - is one of the principal reasons why they're my least favourite couple currently?

I think your opinion harsh - but you have every right to hold it, although some of your posts suggest your views are influenced by the fact that she has been given the opportunity to participate next week

Would she still have been your least favourite had she been forced to leave the competition?

And why the inverted commas around serious injury - do you doubt the severity of the damage to her knee?

Natalie and Vincent, they just dont look right together and it looks like she tries to lead the dance.

Natalie and Vincent she really grates on me and I think she is nearly always overmarked.

Fortunately you don't have to rely on what you may imagine is influencing my view in this case. I can make it perfectly clear for you. I don't really like them as a couple and the quality of their dancing this week was literally non-existent. And surely Jade & Ian wouldn't be in the poll for me to vote 'least favourite' if they'd been booted out so I'm not sure what you're getting at there.

The inverted commas were because I was quoting your description...there's no need to read anything else into it.

Natalie and Vincent

Fair enough - I accept that.

And now that you've made clear that you don't like them, whether they dance or not, I understand more readily that your views are coloured by opinion - which, of course, applies to most of us.

It's the outrage of those who think she should have automatically been eliminated from the competition that I find difficult to comprehend.

I don't like Ricky W, Ricky G or Ali - but if an injury prevented them from participation I would have no problem seeing them given a free pass for one week only.