Just calculated that pixies elimination last year could have been down to a betting scam, a lot of people took bets on her to go in the way they did and she lost her place on the show. Also I think len wanted people that were going on tour at the time, he didn't like what pixie was doing at the time so he sent her packing.

Seeing as Len didn't do the tour himself, I doubt he gave a shiny shite about it tbh.

I think lens producer had a small influence on him, only small though. Trouble is we didn't really have a competitive final really and trent did things to wind len up so the couple was sacrificed for simon who technically was nowhere near as good as pixie. Also pixies media headlines swayed people not to vote for her. About time that certain fans of the show turned a blind eye to newspaper and magazine articles and focused on their own view point instead.

And a year on, the conspiracy theories keep on coming.

Pixie was eliminated.

That's the way it goes.

Move on perhaps?

The bbc didn't always show her in the best light either in her VTs and Marian keys was a basher of her apparently on ITT, then again the main concern with the bbc is not being fair, it's about ratings and an even playing field. They think shocks and that will get more articles in the media, their a bit skewed in their judgement I'd say.

As a professional sports trader, I would be very interested to learn why you think there may have been a scam taking place. I also note that you have referred to a betting scam on Big Brother, previously. I don't watch that programme but would be interested in what evidence you have.

There are opportunities for those "in the know" or "on the inside" to take advantage of their position and knowledge to place back or lay bets, of course; and the semi-final of season six of Strictly was an example of this. The cessation of betting on this season's Great British Bake Off suggested something was up. I don't play on such events because I have no edge, previous series have suggested it is inadvisable to play and there are plenty of other opportunities. Nonetheless I would be fascinated to learn about any "scam".

As Strictly is live then I would think it's pretty difficult to arrange a scam of this sort. You'd have to have a lot of people in on it - at least 2 of the judges (one of whom would have had to be Len) plus, with positive voting to keep people in you'd have had to have a barrage of people voting for the other contestants to get Pixie into the DO in the first place.

At the end of the day Len will nearly always favour the more traditional approach - and will go with the better technical dance - which in this instance was Simon's. He had already shown this earlier in the series when Scott and Joanne were eliminated when he would have saved them because their Foxtrot had more proper content than Alison's AS did, so it wasn't really that much of a surprise when he saved Simon (at least I wasn't surprised).

From the same person!

Gosh, still the same old conspircy theory.

Pixie was in bottom 2 because more viewers voted for other celebs than for her.

She was eliminated because her dance was technically full of faults whereas the other guy (can remember his dance, not his name) was technically pretty faultless. Len's job is to judge on technique, therefore Pixie was out.

Seriously? It's been a year!! Look, I liked Pixie last year, but if you just took a look at Twitter, Facebook, Daily Mail etc. she didn't have a lot of support, and that's probably why she ended up in the dance off. The dance off itself was extremely close and I'd have been pushed to vote for either of them; looking back I'd say Simon's was the better dance, but Pixie had been a fantastic dancer up to that point.

It's done and dusted. Move on.

Pixie's unexpected elimination and what may or may not have underpinned it has entered Strictly folklore and will never be forgotten!

At least by some people....

really

a year later and this is still coming up

Pixie was in the bottom 2 because not enough people picked up the phone and voted for her

it really is as simple as that

no scams, no conspiracy theorys, no BBC showing her in a bad light

I read this post and totally agreed before I saw who posted it - not really surprised it is you Kaycee - totally agree

Betting Scams on BB yes as hardly anybody watches these days and even less vote due to corrupt nature of show production. How the hell it is with competition rules? Well it isn't but it's so far under radar nobody has bothered to challenge it. As for SCD too many of GBP vote for it to be fixed. The sheer scale of the operation would be too big.

I love Pixie and was gutted when she was unexpectedly booted out, but a scam? Don't think so personally! Sadly I find it easy to believe she didn't attract that many votes, and whilst I think the judges should have saved her rather than Simon it was a close call. I think both Len & Darcey favoured Simon over Pixie hence she went out. A rubbish result, but not really a scam.

Incidentally I think the fact that Pixie's exit is STILL being discussed shows just how big an impact she made, and of course she's been amazing in dance shows this summer. I expect she's over it as she did pretty well out of Strictly in the end!

Spot on. It's been a year...let it go now.

I don't think the likelihood is as great as on BB due to viewership which was clearly a betting scam given Helen had the pass to the final and long odds from the start enabling those to bet early and then have her win the whole thing.

Totally agree Pixie's cha cha was poor filled with lifts as the dance didn't suit her & Simon's American Smooth (I think it was the American Smooth) was far better. If Pixie was against Mark or Jake she probably would have stayed

If I'm remembering right, Jake was actually marked higher that week for the main dance. Pixie and Simon scored the same for their actual dance and it was the waltz-off positions that put her above him on the leaderboard and gave a 3? way tie below her meaning that there was only one actual mark between 4 couples at least.

There were a lot of variables that week in particular.

As much as I loved Pixie last year, it definitely was not a scam that she ended up in the bottom-two - enough people didn't vote for her to stay (me not included in that, given I gave her all six of my free votes that week out of fear ), and both Darcey and Len preferred Simon's dance that week. That's all there is to it.

However, what irritates me is when people talk about how much better Simon's dance was than Pixie's in the DO, because it wasn't. From what I remember on here at the time, not one person mentioned the fact that Simon actually went wrong after coming down the smaller set of stairs at the beginning, not to mention that as Craig pointed out, he didn't really use his upper body (mainly the arms) very well. Pixie's technique, while not perfect, was a lot better overall the second time round, and she used her upper body far more than Simon did. Yes, his dance was technically the better of the two, but near flawless? Not on your nelly.

Oh, and the three so-called 'illegal lifts' that were there the first time? Two of them were non-existent in the DO, but that was also never talked about much at the time.

Oh I don't know - isn't it part of the 'fun' of theses boards for us to moan about past perceived injustices for years on end, when there's nothing better to talk about (like no dancing for three weeks)? The Anton/Rouass debacle is still being hotly debated on another thread years after the event. Personally I have never got over Austin Healey's elimination and bang on about it at every opportunity!

In my Elsa's voice, Let it go. ...let it go...let it go.....

If I got over her elimination last year, you can too Op

Just checked because I couldn't remember myself

Caroline was top followed by Pixie then Simon, Frankie and Jake with the same and bottom was Mark in combined score as it was the week of the waltz-a-thon.

In the main dances Caroline was top followed by Jake then tied in 3rd was Simon, Pixie and Mark with Frankie bottom so anyone apart from probably Caroline could have went out in a dance off.

I think ITT can sway the vote to be fair, ITT is to me getting to be just like bbbots to be fair in the sense of manipulation and people on there thinking were born yesterday.