Originally Posted by CaroUK:
“But Peter isn't able to do the tour...... That's why he whined to the papers that he wouldn't win.......”
Erm, sorry to disappoint you... but
Peter IS doing the tour. If you'd researched the facts of the story to which you refer, you would have discovered the truth:
He is (was) signed up to do SOME, but not ALL of the dates on the tour. His 'whining to the papers' was indeed whining (albeit, fake whining). It was
not (as reported in some rags) : "They won't let me win because I'm not doing the tour", it was in fact this: "I've agreed to do some of the tour, but I've not yet agreed to do every single date, and I'm worried they won't let me win, as they'll naturally want the winner to appear at every show..."
Anyway, I reckon he really has signed up for ALL the dates, and has been all along, but didn't want it announcing too soon, as it would likely damage ticket sales of his own singing tour.... which by some massive coincidence

happens to end just before the Strictly tour starts...!. [Or the other way round, who cares?]. Regardless, if there'd been even a slight overlap, then the whole charade would perhaps have been more convincing...
Originally Posted by CaroUK:
“He's been protected by the judges all the way through via being kept near the top of the leaderboard by being overmarked, and at the expense of better dancers! When he ends up in his fair position (bottom of the leaderboard) - it shows that he is as unpopular as Jamelia as far as the public are concerned, and the only reason he is still there is because at least two judges reversed their original marks. In the Dance off”
I agree with all of that, and here's one you missed: look at the dances he's got left! Nobody has a better selection - because nobody else doing the tour needs as much help as he does to get to the final. But he
will get there, and the explanation is simple : he's doing the tour.