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I can't believe I've watched Julian chuffing McDonald dance five chuffing times now.

I would like to see James win the show one year

Chuffing heck!

I'm sorry to see Vanessa go ahead of him

Night night all, see you next week or over the road if you are off to the Xfactor thread.

Same here, my family supported Louis and did not like my support last year

It has. Vanessa tried to eat it.

I think she has been a gem, kind warm fun and sweet.

A clever feisty lady showing her soft side

The judges have occasionally voted out dancers with higher original scores than those they faced in the dance-off.

Colin Salmon, Dan Lobb, Rory Bremner, Goldie, Tina O'Brien, Jimi Mistry, Felicity Kendal and Patsy Kensit were all eliminated despite outscoring their dance-off rivals in recent series.

This time, next week, it'll be seven times.

Sad to see Vanessa go, she did well.

I enjoyed Abbey's white knee socks this week.

Here's how the dance views look on the BBC's YouTube channel after 20 hours:

Natalie & Artem - 6,846
Ben & Kristina - 2,513
Sophie & Brendan - 2,411
Ashley & Ola - 2,290

Susanna & Kevin - 1,911
Rachel & Pasha - 1,864
Abbey & Aljaz - 1,829
Dave & Karen - 1,462
Deborah & Robin - 1,071
Julien & Janette - 1,023

Vanessa & James - 788
Mark & Iveta - 706
Fiona & Anton - 655
Patrick & Anya - 477

NB that this clearly isn't the most accurate way of gauging public support as Mark must have had more votes than Julien.

Very sorry to see Vanessa go. I thought she was particularly gracious in defeat (as was James).

I think I'm in love with James

Him and Ola are so cute to me this year too

A lot of those you listed though we're eliminated in series' where there was no bottom 2 judges vote and the one with the least votes just went

Vanessas gastric band has probably snapped by now.

Don't forget some of Julien's views will be some youtubers to post negative comments and give the video dislikes.

All of them except Colin were eliminated by the public vote and not the judges (and that was an anomalous situation as his opponent had forgotten the routine first time round).

I'm curious that Ben's vid had more views that Ashley's. I wonder what the public votes are for these two male competitors ...

Edit: grammar

Ben will be topping the male vote I think. He is gorgeous and was the most improved last night

I agree.
She couldn't dance, no elegance, no timing, no musicality but very gracious this evening.

I don't think you can guess who's getting the most votes from youtube views; millions watch the show and youtube views are only in the low thousands - there's only a few hundred between most of them.

And while Ben's has more views Ashley's has more 'likes' and less 'dislikes'

I understand that. My point was that my curiosity has been piqued after seeing that Ben's video has more views. It has checked my assumption that Ashley would be getting the most votes of the males.

Had a bit of sick in my mouth at the sight of two middle aged women "Pwoarr-ing" over the chest of a much younger man.
Looking forward to Len and Bruce letching over girl celebs t*ts in future weeks aned begging for them to show more.