Having watched tonight's show and been an avid fan since day 1, I have come to the conclusion that, with the possibility of offending others, that the judges want Ali & Brian to win and have been consistently overmarking her from the Viennese Waltz.
Yes , this dance was good and worthy of a high score but each dance since has been overmarked. Tonight, the comments from the judges were 'when you are back next week' and not 'if'. Len however was spot on with his comments.

Ricky & Natalie danced the 2 best dances tonight and have once again ended up in the bottom two - how I do not know! I felt that after last week and his drama on Friday that history was repeating itself, with the judges trying to get him in the bottom 2. I remember this happening with Mark Ramprakash, the night before the story of his affair broke. The BBC do not like bad publicity.

Chris & Ola are very popular with the public but he does need to start dancing in his latin not just use his personality.

Laila & Anton made mistakes and did dance the worst tonight and deserved to go.

I think that the BBC are after the fairytale ending with Ali & Brian.

Sorry if this upsets people but its my opinion.

P.S before you ask I like Ricky & Natalie but enjoy watching everyone's development.

I certainly can't understand how Ali wasn't in the bottom 2 tonight. I think that's the poorest I've seen her dance and agree she was overmarked by both Darcy and Aleisha.

It wasn't the judges marks that saved her from the DO, it was the lack of public support for Ricky.