And I think it's highly possible. We know Laila is popular after being taken out of the bottom two a few times.

My guess is that the voting went:

Chris
Laila
Ali
Ricky

Now with this in mind, my question is: Should there be a dance off next week? We know Chris will be there and having a final with the two least popular couples can hardly be a good thing...

I don't think there should be a dance-off next week. By the way, we don't know that Chris will be in the dance-off; if Ricky and Ali tie or the leaderboard is reversed by the public then he won't be.

Regardless of how the public vote is going, I'd have two different questions:
1) Should there even be an elimination next week?
2) Should there even be a next week?

Personally I'd rather they had just had a weekend off and the couples had two weeks to prepare for a three couple final programme.

anton was so low down he would have needed almst every single vote to gethim out of the bottom two - the judges know if they vote low enought the public vote cannot make a difference - we ought to be told the percentages of public votes -