thats a fair comment. So when do we get to the dancing contest then

Oh god I hope not.

She was awful Sophie cannot dance latin. She is declining each week. Brendan also did not help her with that outburst. Like a sulky child. She would have been near top though due to the controversy.

Many thanks to the spoiler providers. Can't say it was the result I was hoping for but, as Big Ben always said, "you can't control the uncontrollable".

http://ukmediacentre.com/strictly/st...-eliminations/
Week 9 – November 23rd/24th: – Ben Cohen & Kristina Rihanoff ~ (Bottom two with Mark Benton & Iveta Lukosiute).

Yes indeed, I had assumed it would be Mark this week and Ben next week, but I forget the eccentricities of the great british public lol

I suspect Sophie topped the vote with the best dance of the night.

Ben a decent guy but hardly danced a step all series. A good result

Definitely getting it from here lol

Hey all. Accidentally stumbled onto the other spoiler thread and THEY DON'T HAVE PANDAS THERE.

No surprise all the contestants with previous dance/performance experience are still there.

Been lovely chatting with you all again see you next week.

Minority opinion, you should see the facebook reactions (almost 2000 reactions, double that of any of the other contestants ).

Whatever you think of her dancing, this week has been very lucrative on the voting side of things for her.

Also, the overmarking of Natalie is turning even more people against her (it's Emma and Lisa all over again).

I thought scoring was fair tonight. Much better than the overwhelming disgrace of Blackpool. Many complained on the BBC website so I imagine producers gave the judges a "reminder" to score harsher.

Marks Jive - 29 points
Marks Foxtrot - 28 points.

Abbeys Quickstep - 37
Abbeys Paso - 32

So examples of how the scoring was much more leveled down.

It wouldn't surprise me if it is deliberate - the judges have had their favourites from week 1. It would serve them right if everyone started voting for Mark and kept him in until the final.

Including mark?!

Whoa, I'm shocked that Ben landed in the Bottom 2 and was eliminated OVER Mark? I feared that Ben could have gone to the finale and win this. But wow I thought Ben deserved to make it to Week 10 and get eliminated then but at least he got to end his journey with a fun dance. Sorry to Ben's fans.

If Mark goes next week, which he should, then the Top 6 will be perfect with the 6 best dancers remaining. Thank you for the spoilers.

I think its a fair result, bottom two was correct and it would only have given Ben one more week if he had of knocked Mark out and vice versa with Mark surely out next week. Natalie is really starting to annoy me, always overmarked but I just adore Susanna.

Still shocked that Ben ended up in the B2. I thought that he was topping the votes every week. Plus he had a crowd pleasing routine, the Charleston.

Do you have a source to substantiate this - or do you mean it is something that you have just made up?

Yes..

As usual thanks to SaraV1308 and all those who helped with the spoiler this week.

I'd guess Ben messed up, which given all the side by side bits in his routine would have been easy to do. Glad for Iveta though.

Mark joins the '3 times in the DO' Club then!

Nearly got me knickers in a twist thought I'd posted about me knickers on the wrong thread you know the other spoiler thread? Just had quick look and all hell seems to have broken loose on there which is a shame.

Anyway Ben did try bless him but not the physique for a dancer and charleston not his dance. Plus he didn't have the big personality to even things up so much prefer that Mark stayed.

Yep ours were truly dire I I went to school in Yorkshire.
Bottle green skirts and jumpers, white shirts, red and green striped ties and blazers and either red, green or white knee socks.
It makes me shudder even thinking about it.

Sorry but I can't stand Susanna, she's always blowing kisses to the judges and being generally smarmy

Thanks for the spoilers, kinda surprised Ben went over Mark (going by previous weeks) and I know for a fact my mum is going to gutted to see Ben go.

Hope the musical week picks things up again next week so I shall see you all then!

If she wins I will be very disappointed.

The Natalie scoring is just annoying me too TBH. Its like I cannot support her. She's so good in a different league almost like she does not belong on the show.