I think you'll find it's called 'car crash TV'


I wonder why, hmmm! could it be that she just can't dance.

It never stopped Chris Parker touring.

I don't think she can win even DWTS saw sense in the end

Not sure this is techically true - the newspapers have been in decline for years. What they are doing is quabbling frantically over a shrinking market and pushing sensationalism and jettisoning standards (and actual news) as they go.

Even if she gets down to the final 2 - people will vote against her choose as who she is up against imho and as such she cannot win. imho

It is a myth that Ann is responsible for the rising viewing figures - there is no evidence to prove this. If she was getting a John Sergeant-style share of the vote, perhaps - but she isn't.

It is much likelier that the ratings increase is down to SCD not being scheduled against TXF this year. Add to that the cold weather and it's a television executive's dream.

How do you know that? The BBC don't publish the results of the viewers voting.

I do hope not, she shouldn't even be in the show anymore.

A/W could win with the idiots voting for her just to spoil the show plus those who had a bet at the start when the odds I believe were 100/1 on her winning.

[quote=Eviesmum;45854601]I bloody hope not - she's a disgrace, unfunny, rude and ungainly. She's making a Oh please God no. What are the voters doing keeping her in?

Are you off your'e xxxxing head?

...to which you are certainly entitled.

You can vote by telephone to remove those you do not want in the Strictly Come Dancing.

If you are fair you will accept the result of the telephone voting even if it does not always/or never goes as you wish.

It is a democratic vote.

I would like to see much more of this direct democracy (as long as the cost of the telephone calls are not too much ).

The Right Honourable Ann Widdecombe is a a member of the Privy Council and is, therefore, The Right Honourable Ann Widdecombe.

Since initially making this posting I have found that my point above was also made by someone else earlier in this thread in posting 146.

I think that a great many people hope for this (that The Right Honourable Ann Widdecombe wins Strictly Come Dancing) and that the number holding this view is growing.

I have just spoken on the telephone to someone known to be a good dancer; who used to attend balls and dance at them and who likes Anne (Widdecombe's) dancing.

I think that Strictly Come Dancing is a good programme - with that excellent national institution Bruce Forsyth presenting it. There is no swearing (bad language) or violence in it and the spirit of the programme is good natured.

I am already looking forward to this coming Saturday's edition of Strictly Come Dancing.

The British public will decide who wins - and they should not be criticised for keeping Ann (Widdecombe) and her dance partner Anton in the competition.

I do not agree with the above - Strictly Come Dancing is an increasingly popular programme using direct democracy through telephone voting so its viewers - the British public - decide who remains in the competition.

Strictly Come Dancing is free of violence and bad language and it is just the sort of programme we need more of on television.

As I have put in another thread, if you really believe it's democracy join those of us that have requested the BBC to consider 'one phone - one vote' (the technology already exists and is used on other radio/TV polls etc). Then we would see how many viewers voted for each couple instead of how many times they vote. That would be truly democratic.

I am sorry I did not see that posting from you.

As I have just mentioned in another thread in reply to you - the final telephone vote of Strictly Come Dancing is the most important.

I have made no predictions here, so far, on who I think might win Strictly Come Dancing but being a democrat I will accept the decision whoever is the victor.

Thank you for the time you are spending discussing this with me here. We may not agree about Ann Widdecombe remaining in Strictly Come Dancing (you would like her to leave the competition and I hope that she stays) but we might actually agree with regard to our view of some other television programmes.

Thank you Terry, at least our part of the discussion I would like to think has been conducted in a reasonable and polite manner. I too believe in the democratic process (as a right of every human being reagardless of race,colour and creed) and will accept their decision. I do feel agrieved in some way though that the winner (not just of SCD but other similar shows) can be manipulated by a small number of voters using multiple voting rather than by the number of individuals using the 'one phone- one vote' system that would guarantee the democratic part of the process.

Apart from SCD I only watch TimeTeam and nature/history documentaries.the TV is usually the domain of my good lady and her soaps/ US crime shows.......

I think that it has. Everyone has a right to back whoever they want to win Strictly Come Dancing. There are probably some viewers of it who have not yet made their minds up about who they want to win. Their votes could be the deciding factor in who emerges as victor.

I would add that there are some viewers who have yet to vote in the Strictly Come Dancing telephone polls. Many of them will vote this Saturday and/or next with the rest participating in the final telephone poll only - when a majority of the present contestants will have left the competition. The opinions of some of those viewers of Strictly Come Dancing who are about to vote for the first time could be different from those of a number of people who have already been taking part in the telephone polls regularly.

I have just had a look at the betting odds for who might be this year's outright winner of Strictly Come Dancing 2010.


I believe that the outright winner of Strictly Come Dancing 2010 will be two participants who the British public believe deserve to win a competition of this kind.

Many viewers will soon get behind one pair of contestants and they will win the competition - possibly by a wide margin.

The Right Honourable Ann Widdecombe is entitled to be addressed by her correct title, it may take more time to write but it is displaying good manners and the correct etiquette to do so.

It would be a travesty if she wins.

But the producers knew what they were doing - its keeping SCD in the headlines - I think they call it The Wagner Effect.


However, I am tired of her clomping and stomping around the dancefloor. I want to see D A N C I N G