Are these true? They were posted on the DOI forums and quickly taken down-

1. Mikey - 37.4%
2. Dr Hilary - 22.1%
3. Hayley - 11.7%
4. Emily - 7.2%
5. Danniella - 5.0%
6. Kieron - 4.1%
7. Sharron - 3.7%
8. Heather - 3.1%
9. Tana - 2.5%
10. Gary - 1.7%
11. Danny - 1.4%

It this true?

Not to be mean, but how are we supposed to know if it's true?

I never saw this on the DOI forums so will treat it with the usual disdain I have for any supposed leaked figures that anyone can post and state are true. The bottom two are wrong anyway. Best to ignore them.

Liking the top one, hating the second from last

Obviously we don't know for sure if they are true but the figures do look plausible.

Mikey top I can believe, we know that Hilary & Emily must be getting a great deal of public support to stay out of the skate off. Danny & Gary we know are not popular as they have already been in skate offs. Also supports my theory that a Gary v Danny skate off is looming in the not too distant future.

Double post.

Gary and Danny are like Jess and Zoe last year. Good judges marks, crap public votes

If that was true how comes Gary wasn't in the bottom two with Danny

Danny has huge support on twitter.

Tana would have been bottom with combined vote. Danny, Heather & Emily would all have been on 8 points but Heather & Emily survive through higher public vote.

You look for anything that suggests its untrue and then you are left with the possibility that it might be true or not. Then you look at how credible it is and if it explains whats happened.

The figures look like the sort of distribution we have seen in previous years when votes were announced. Its as irrational as last year.

They also fit with who has been in the bottom two - this week and historically.

They also add up to 100%.

They also fit what we know of where Emily and Dr H must be to escape the bottom two.

The 40% vote going anti-judge or pro the Todd/Colleen candidates has been floating around most recent reality TV shows - you would expect a big DOI vote for this year's equivalent of Colleen or Todd - and Dr H has one. Donal picked it that vote and a personal vote last year and Mikey is a suitable candidate this.

Reality voting audiences on shows with big audiences seem to be relatively internet unenabled. That may be why polls get it wrong so often. Jimmy Osmond would have lost Dancing with the Stars to Kelly osbourne by 6 to one if you looked at twitter followers - he won by a big margin she came third. Its a US example but I suspect its the same in the UK.

Hayley and Daniella are doing better than any girls could last year and the worst skater has 20+ rather than 40%+

You have to ask why Mikey has so many votes (something not to do with skating?) and Gary and Danny so few? A few percent yes - but that gap?? You also have the interestingly large vote for Emily - I don't think Melinda had it last year so it may not be a vote for the pro.

Mikey is likeable, has a sound (and historical) fanbase, has the emotive backstory (Stephen) and is high enough in the skating ranking to tick by far the most boxes on everybody's "Who shall we vote for?" coupon. The viewers seem to be past voting for looks alone, even when they're coupled with a reasonable amount of basic ability (otherwise Gary would be far higher in the apparent overall scheme of things). Danny's not bad looking but he's not enough of a stunner or good enough at skating for his seeming personality defects to be ignored. Hayley is good enough so far (in that nobody else is better) for her ability to override other factors though whether that will continue, I don't know. Danniella has the surprise factor.

This, of course, supposes the "leaked" figures to be possible. They may be cr*p but as someone else has said, they don't look implausible.

The OP posted spoof figures duing XF, so no they're not true.

I hope these aren't true. I can't hack Dr. Hilary ruining this year for me any more. I'm sick of him. He should have left last sunday.

I read that as 'hysterical' the first time round!

Looks like Emily and Dr H will be around for a while yet if those voting figures are authentic.

if that was true ? Than danny and gary would have being in the bottom 2

I hope you're not saying Donal was a Todd/Colleen type. Donal may not have been great at the very start but he was a damn fine skater and performer by the end. Colleen stayed pretty awful the whole way through and got there by begging for votes on loose women - she still makes me shudder!
Mikey is a good skater and performer too - both are way out of the Todd/Colleen league as well as being much more likeable personalitywise than Coleen.

Nor would I say Donal got anti judge votes and Mikey doesn't either - nor Dr Hilary and he's not as bad as Todd was.

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These could be the public vote? So with his high judges vote, Gary escaped bottom two

He wasn't that bad (though he wasn't very good either) and he ended up as clearly the second best male and was personable which explains a big vote. If I remember though if you look at last year's figures its his vote that picks up after Colleen and Todd go. Its possible votes changed all over the place and we don't know how voting numbers increased but its pretty likely that quite a bit of the big chunk of votes that was backing Colleen/Todd went his way. It certainly didn't go to Jessica.

Mikey as tabithakitten explained has a ot of positives going for him - though many seem not to have anything to do with skating and you wonder how big a fan base he has actually compared to a Duncan or Gareth and whether it will be relatively so large later on. Perhaps 7-10 years matter and he's the right age to be known to and attract the age groups who vote? Dr Hilary isn't as bad as Todd and the judges have not been as unpleasant to him - which may explain why he has much fewer votes. It still leaves a big question why some people from morning/daytime TV get disproportionate support and others don't.

Donal topped the vote before Colleen even left and beat her in the votes a few times. He was holding his own by improving not gaining support when no hopers left.

where are last years figures published. Are they still available?

Obviously all napping last sunday though