Originally Posted by katmobile:
“I agree he never would have won and probably not made the final. I think though it would have been a question of when Tom and Austin's fanbases got strong enough to cancel his fans out or possibly Jodie and/or Christine's might have done it too. Hubbie did support JS but reckons the vote would stopped after a couple of weeks after he went tops at least from his POV. He hates Ann BTW and can't wait for her to go.”
I think he could easilly have made it to the final or the semi's at the very least - but I don't think he would have won. People were voting him to get through each week not to win and I think that's a big difference.
It was the lack of contingency for his (or indeed, anyones) withdrawal that gave us the 3 person semi and propopsed 2 person final - and it was only the subsequent Horlicks the Beeb made of it with the voting fiasco that changed that. It should have been a 4 person semi-final and a 3 person final and I could see that he (or Ann this year) could get there fairly easilly with public support.