Exactly.

It really has not much to do with dance at this level of the comp. It boils down to the public voting for their fave. Also Trent didnt do them any favours smirking at Len because he was going to be doing two dances where he could do lifts next week. It pays to keep in with the judges, Trent will have learnt this the hard way!

I blame it on the boogie.

Wow this theory is a little crazy.

Is tactical voting like when you vote Lib Dem and Eric Pickles gets in?

Corrected

Frankie's routine was also off the usual standards and marked down.

I think Kevin's illness impacted frankie too. But she got more public votes.

What a load of bollocks, excuse my language.

It was nobody bar those who didn't vote for Pixie's fault for her departure, not Kevin's - the man was ill for crying out loud!

Well Pixie also spent a LOT of time promoting her single and album this week, so I'm sure that impacted her training time more than Trent missing a max 3-4 hours to rehearse that routine.

Blimey is there no end to the conspiracy threads? I blame the Roswell aliens.

I'm sorry. But everybody's missing the obvious here. It was Prince Philip. We all know his anti-Australian feelings since republicanism started making progress down under. Unless it was Putin. Yeah, I bet it was Putin. Mind you, it was a full moon, so there's that. And ...

She still ended up second on the leaderboard. The public simply didn't vote for her.

There is little that Kevin is not responsible for if you just look in the right light, the evil tsunami-causing, snivelling, male-child slaughtering, overdancing bastard

Nah. They watch X-Factor!

Was the segment with Trent even recorded that night? Some people have said that the bands are recorded on different weekends to when they are shown.

Yes, I think you're right - and it was such a pile of poo with no real salsa content and a lot of shaking of the posterior. Really naff.

He barely dances. He just walks from one position to another while she writhes around him doing all the flash stuff. A dancer's (my) nightmare.

It's quite painful to watch him when you know what he is doing is complete and utter rubbish with no substance

Thanks the waltzathon, she was joint third before that. 35 is a very low score for her. But I agree, no public support this week.

Oh don't be effing ridiculous.
You mean The Borrowers.

The sooner people grasp that instead of looking to find blame elsewhere - with the producers, the judges, the other celebs, etc, the better.

She was high on the leaderboard - artificially so since she got up that high (as did Frankie) with the waltzathon which naturally favoured male pros. The celebs that people are claiming should have gone instead were ranked below her - her going out tonight was entirely down to the public vote. That simple.

This is laughable, some people on this forum have a unhealthy hatred for Kevin, its quite scary.

I doubt Trent missed any training time with Pixie, the pros were training for their pro dance until late at least two nights last week.

Ah, but why was Kevin ill in the first place? The plot thickens! A certain pro dancer who formerly went by the name "Rent-a-pro" exited the competition and almost immediately both Kevin and Pasha fall ill. Suspicious, no? Brendan clearly gave a "cold" type virus to both Kevin and Pasha in the hope that he might once again get to ride to the rescue and dance with one of the front runners! Now Trent wasn't actually ill this week, or at least not as far as we know, but the BBC would want to cover up any backstage rumours if it turned out that Trent was disgustingly healthy and Brendan took... further steps... to remove him from the training room.*

And yes, Tristan has been terrible as Pixie's pro partner. Do you know, I don't think I've seen him training her even once!


*I'm hoping people know that this isn't serious. I'm not actually accusing Brendan of poisoning people.

Yes, and then there was the samba...! Not sure I've recovered from that

And they would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids

Lol

Maybe they tactically voted for others and it has backfired big time. It does not automatically follow that she was unpopular