that if the judges order them ali, ricky, chris then chris' supporters have to vote for ricky as well so that he's second with the public they all end up with 4 points overall and then ricky and ali will be in the dance off being least popular with the public?

sorry if this has been mentioned before. xxx

Yeah, as a Chris fan I'll vote only for Ricky if that happens, because I figure enough other people will still vote for Chris for him to top the public vote.

In that situation, we're assuming of course that Ali will be more popular than Ricky. Just because that happened this week doesn't guarantee it will next week.

I really don''t understand how voting for the person who is second in the judges leaderboard will help the person at the bottom? This is soooooooooooooooooo confusing.

Looking at the polls and the recent evidence you have to say Ali is more popular. I am sure of it.
So vote for Ricky if he's 2nd on the board. Yep. If you are Cola-ites that is what to do.

If the judges order is Ali, Ricky, Chris then for Chris to avoid the dance off the public order needs to be the opposite. This will give all the couples a total of 4 points but Chris would go through on the basis that he got the highest public vote out of the three.

Yes thats dead right.......if Chris is bottom and Ali top then Ricky has to outvote Ali in order for Chris to not be in the dance off.

Bizarrely enough some extra sympathy or tactical voting for Ricky next week just might play into Team Cola's hands.