Seconded.

It makes a change from some of the snidey and some of the downright nasty posts that have become increasingly prevalent on this forum in the last week or so.

What a lovely post! And totally agree with everything you said! As the judges said she is the best 'all rounder' and wish them the very best on Saturday!

But, while I will be supporting team GG in the final I wish all the finalists the very best and who ever wins I'm sure will be worthy of the glitter ball and I hope everyone will congratulate them whoever they are!

But some of us find it annoying. I do when Kellie does it too. Save it for when and if they lift the glitterball.

I like Giovanni, he seems sweet and considerate, I don't dislike Georgia, I just don't feel a deal for her either way. She dances nicely. There I tried.

I find it a bit pathetic to write such a long negative post about someone you don't know or like in a dance competition to be honest with you.

In fact I don't think I've ever disliked anyone in Strictly it's about dancing not personality. Do they dance well? Yes? Good for them hope they do well. Do they not dance well? No? Good for them at least they're giving it a go.

Georgia and Giovanni have been one of my favourite couples in how they've worked together. It's fashionable on the boards to say 'I forgot about Georgia' but she's done some of the dances I've enjoyed the most, and I'm still watching the Charleston!

And as far as the pharyngitis goes - it's very painful and debilitating, I don't think she's claimed to be the only person to deal with illness or other issues during practice, but I can certainly understand why she was a bit low key on Saturday.

She is an ok dancer same as Kellie but she never wows me.

It happens every year unfortunately, such a shame as we only have one more week of Strictly .... would the posters make these comments directly to the person they're insulting? I don't think so.

The "doctor" giving his diagnosis in the training room slapped of sympathy vote desperation. As has been said upthread, Jay missed a day of training to go to his grandfather's funeral and asked for zero mention/fuss to be made about it. I've lost some respect for Georgia on this one.

This is how I feel. She looks very, very pretty and dances prettily but ...........

The judges are always raving about her topline but I always think she looks as if she is leaning back too far but what do I know.

Seeing how nasty the comments have become in a week, in a way I'm glad that there's only a week left

Out of respect: the highlighted bit

Apparently it's "nasty" to mention that but I think it's quite important.

IF that's a sideways swipe at my earlier comment - you will notice that I have been careful NOT to attribute any poster or specific type of comment to any "nastiness".

Big Georgia fan here. Lovely dancer and genuinely having a ball.
Love Jay for the same reason.
And Katie - but with less of the dancer bit.

Georgia is nice but I'm a Katie fan.

Sometimes it's better (IMHO) to directly point out the posts you perceive to be "nasty" because a generalised post such as yours just leaves people wondering. I am sure plenty of people think it's "nasty" to criticise Georgia for appealing for sympathy votes but, again IMO, it was a pretty poor show.

I was a little disappointed that so much of the VT and ITT on Friday was dedicated to telling us about Georgia being ill - it smacked of looking for sympathy votes and it was reflected in the judges votes for her Cha Cha Cha.

I hope this week that we will have no more "I'm not a trained dancer" (Katies new claim?!!) and other sympathy garnering videos.
Let the best dancer win on the night without canvassing for votes for any other reason other than their performance

I could not agree more.

Going off-topic, but direct references would probably cause much friction and argumentative replies (as well as being off-topic). Perhaps everyone needs to consider whether what they post is fair, reasonable and just before they post it!

Suffice to say, the rather agreeable and cosy air that used to be prevalent on this forum has diminished greatly from my perspective. And after all, it's only a telly programme. So not really worth getting het up about.

How much of this (and similar) is down to the producers wanting to spin a story rather than the couple in question?

It certainly pays a part but the celebrities cannot be forced into a story if they don't want to comply.

True.

Well you could then say that GG were ill-advised or felt that they should go along (again, we don't know the behind-the-scenes details so anything more is speculative)

Totally unnecessary. I don';t think you are, in your own words, "petty, pedantic and pathetic", (may agree with you on the latter), but this was nasty and not called for. And no, I';m not a Georgia fan especially, but I do like her dancing.

Yeah she should have totally wasted the training time she had left arguing with the producers over something so trivial just to please DS members.

How many times have we got told Kellie's can't train as much because of Eastenders or Anita has no dance background or Jay suffers from nerves. Yet Georgia mentions she's sick one week and suddenly it's crime to do or say anything that might get you even one or two 'sympathy votes'.

Or she could have spent the training time .. er ... training instead of filming a "doctor" giving her the diagnosis?