I am a Frankie fan and wanted her to win, but I must say Caroline deserved it. I thought she was a little overmarked for her cha-cha, and would say it deserved 38 or 39. Her showdance deserved its 40, as did her charleston, but the showdance must have won it for her.

Pixie deserved to win. End of.

Caroline did deserve to win, she was outstanding tonight!

Caroline's cha cha didn't deserve anywhere near 40 (I'd have considered her lucky to get 35), but her showdance and Charleston were outstanding.

None of the final three would have been unworthy winners though.

But she didn't caroline did, end of.

Over the whole of the series I think Simon & Kristina have performed the best out of the finalists and so I gave them most of my votes tonight. However in the final itself I thought Frankie & Kevin performed the best.

She must have been on when I went for a wee, cos I don't remember seeing her.

Any thoughts on Caroline's judges choice?

The genre favoured her (unlike everyone else's choice) - she should have been asked to re-do her American Smooth or another ballroom. I'm disappointed she's managed to win the title without doing a ballroom dance in the final.

But the Cha Cha was just a weird pick in general, especially two in a row. Judges' choices overall were extremely poor, if not a bit suspect.

Caroline's Cha Cha wasn't good though, I nearly choked on my wine when she got 40, I thought it just about justified 30!

Good thing you're no expert then

Or allowed to vote

I thought she was a bit low key in the final though. Sort of blink and you'd miss her, if you know what I mean?

I agree she deserved to win. She combined strength, speed and technique to produce excellent dancing. I voted for Simon but wouldn't grudge her the win.

Guess I don't understand the complaints about her Cha Cha not deserving it's 40 and no explanations given why it's not worthy.

It definitely deserved it to me. It was strongly danced, she was confident, fierce, the choreography matched the song and they hit every accent in the music on equal levels.

It doesn't matter how much dance training you have some people just can't dance that well. Caroline can really dance. She has natural style and ability. She and Pasha are a great partnership. Congrats to them, well deserved win.

A fabulous result,loved her throughout the show and I was not a fan initially
I absolutely felt she deserved to win as I loved her free dance more than the others and thought she deserved it overall. Love strictly so much

Caroline was awesome tonight, so happy she won!!!! I have been sad and bitter over the whole Pixie situation, but I'm happy we got a very, very deserving winner!

She has great leg action but her top half always looks floppy with no control IMO. I think either Simon or Frankie were far more deserving ................really didn't get all the 10's and accolades at all - hey ho.

Caroline is fortunate to compete when she did. Were this back in the early series, she wouldn't have had all the non-10 dances to hide behind, Charleston, Salsa, AT. Simon and Frankie are better ballroom and latin dancers. But them's the rules.

Anyone who wins deserves to win so Caroline truly deserved to win

I would have been happy with either Simon or Caroline, Caroline being my favourite. So long as Frankie didn't win it was ok with me.

No she didn't deserve to win IMO. I put her third out of the 4 finalists but obviously the public disagreed with me. But we all have our favourites.

I sometimes wonder if, instead of harming Caroline's chances, the vindictive Mail article swayed people to actually support her. Just to show the DM that the public have the final say.

Was the article true? Has she had significant dance training? The show has lost its way if the last three standing have all had dance experience either by being a performer in their day job where movement is an intrinsic part, or who have had formal training as CF has had, according to that article?

In the past many celebrities have some sort of training but not necessarily in ballroom which is a completely different discipline. Louis Smith and Matt Baker were/are gymnasts, I dare say Kara did dance classes at stage school. The only ones who had no dance training and did very well were Natasha Kaplinsky, Mark Ramprakash (a natural dancer), Chris Hollins and Darren Gough. The last two won on personality!

Yes Caroline deserved to win, her showdance was exceptional, Pasha was brave as Craig has said, it was a bold move and she delivered on it.
Both Frankie and Caroline had the worst judges picks ,,two difficult Latin dances from week 1. No other celeb had the technique for the cha cha..but she nailed it in the final.
She had the best pro working for her, and Pasha made decisions that kevin didnt make.
Simon was a close second IMO, and had her showdance not gone right, he would have won.
Carolines charleston once again, had the triple wow factor even without the extra dancers.