Originally Posted by dander:
“I'd be most surprised if Mark won. Very, very surprised. Because there are an awful lot of "anyone but Mark" people and I don't think any of the other three have as big an "anti vote" - and the final is when the anti vote can really affect things. I think we can assume he's had a relatively low vote so far, so I think it would take a bit of a miracle for him to win.
I wouldn't be outraged exactly if he won, but I'd certainly just switch off the TV as soon as it was announced rather than bother watching him celebrate.
I'd be pretty surprised if Simon won too - but I don't think he has as big an anti vote Mark.”
Simon winning would be a nice surprise for me - although as you say it's very unlikely to happen - however if he impresses me I'll still vote for him tonight - I hope he at least makes it to the final 3.
If Mark somehow manages to win I'll still probably wait and watch his victory speech - because I'm a masochist

I want to see how many cliches he spouts and I doubt if he can say anything as stupid as last years winner when she boasted she was going to get drunk.....or can he? I think they might need some life rafts for all the tears he'll be crying.
Originally Posted by Ian_Ogilvie:
“All the contestants have done well so whoever wins deserves it. The down side to Frankie winning (for me) would be that dreary little emetic, Clifton would see it as his win. I try to see the good in everyone but the best thing I can say about him is he is more effective than a cup of salt water at shifting an internal blockage. He is the most self obsessed out of all the pros and needs to get that grotesque prominent lower occlusion seen to. Any vet could fix it. Handy as it may be for him to catch his snotters in his lower lip it doesn't make for easy viewing. I feel heartfelt sorry for Frankie being lumbered with stuck with that on the dance floor. Few things are uglier than a self obsessed, egotistical runt of a dancer. God knows, I've had a lifetime of them! If Frankie wins she should kick him out of the way and say "I did it -I won". Dancers like Pasha are proper role models for the pros. When Clifton did that paso with Susanna Reid last series he showed what a total prick he is. He only wanted to show what he could do. I only care what the pros can do for the contestants. I should be able to safely assume that the pros can dance.”
I take it you don't like Kevin then? Honestly he's not my favourite pro but I genuinely don't understand all the strong feelings of disdain he evokes. To me he seems like quite an inoffensive guy - a pleasant enough personality - yeah he might over dance sometimes, and he does go OTT when he's called safe, and he could focus more on celeb in some of his choreo but with Susanne last year he had someone who wasn't the greatest dancer so perhaps he felt he needed to do some distraction choreo - most of the pros sometimes resort to it, he got all the way to the finals with her and that was with her being a limited dancer and a marmite personality, so he must have done something right with her.
With Frankie it seems like he's built up another strong partnership - they seem to have a brother/sister type relationship and I think if she wins she'll be a worthy winner as it's been an entertaining partnership. And as someone said earlier, look on the bright side, if she wins it'll be very unlikely that Kevin gets a real contender for a while