The audience isn't voting for the list of people they would like to see most next week.There is no vote for who should go - which would be the only way to get nearer to achieving that result.

Most viewers are not voting. The minority that are may not reflect those that are not. Dave, on past history, may have the 20-30% of the vote (though much less might keep him in) that suppoted John Sergeant, Russell Grant and Ann Widdicombe. That doesn't mean that most, or many, viewers want him to stay. Nearly every viewer who didn't vote for him might want him out.

The producers have to judge what impact he is having on their viewers as a whole. The judges comments about him being stale, and unfunny, and the producers failure to build him up with gimicks (like Ann and Russell) with cannons etc, suggest they want him out too. They built him up as the joke act, but they may well find him as unentertaining as many of us do. In the longer term, they have to consider the damage the joke act does to the rest of the show. With top two contenders in the bottom two, and the people with show stories going out to him, they may conclude they are losing more than they gain. With no growth stories as the contestants who might provide them go out, and the contenders with no votes, the end of the series loses both its narrative, and its unpredictability.

Quite. It's not like he's out injuring the other dancers, bad mouthing them, starting hate campaigns to make them look bad...He's just getting on with what he does to the best of his very limited ability. The way some people have to make their dislike for that personal (as though they feel they can vindicate themselves if they try to convince that he's a horrible person) is a bit tragic.


Or snobbery?

The truth of the matter is the show is biased towards the dancing ability all the way up to the final. The judges have two chances to decide who stays with their scores and the dance off the public have only one. Can't say fairer than that.

I have no problem with people voting for whatever the heck they want tbh. Why would I? I doubt many of Strictly's 10-11 million audience know the first thing about ballroom dancing, they just know what they enjoyed watching. Personally, I'm loving Natalie and think she combines skill with ability to perform. Others don't enjoy her dancing. Fair enough! If they don't get as much enjoyment out of watching her as they do others then I wouldn't expect them to vote for her. Similarly I would never bother voting for Abbey because her performances leave me cold.

I know it's catching.... But I don't start it.... Do I ?

I was caught out by it too. Sarcasm? I think you are being a bit harsh on yourself. Cynical maybe. I think you have judged some of the anger shown on here over the last two weeks results very well.

Well then everyone needs to stop thinking about it and actually do it. You can't moan about the result if you didn't vote, or you can but you look foolish.

You get 5 free votes this year so there's really no excuse if your favourite is the bottom 2 and you didn't vote.

Ahhhh, riiiigggggght.