Has anyone read this yet?

I saw the front cover whilst buying my morning milk and saw the line 'I was relieved to leave strictly, it was taking its toll'

So he didn't want to go through? Obviously I haven't read it so need filling in on what he's actually implying here!

No Peter you were rubbish and you got kicked of....honestly what people will say to try and save face.

No idea about the article or what he was trying to 'imply'... but saying he was relieved to leave strictly hardly comes as a surprise to me.

I could never understand why people on here went on as if he had received the biggest favour of his life being put through over Jamelia. It was clearly the worst thing that could have happened. He didn't have the public support or the dance skills to make it, so it was obvious it was only going to give him an extra week. And how anyone would like to stay one extra week when all you receive in that week are accusations of fixing, resentment over you staying, critisisms that you're to blame for a better dancer having to leave the show (and thats not including all the other irrelevant insults thrown your way once everyone is on board the bandwagon). You'd have to be mad to want to stay in those circumstances.

It would be surprising if he had. He was my least favourite celeb, but it was for his sake that I was glad he went the following week.

Ah, the age-old excuse of the losing contestant. They didn't want to win anyway! Really! No, really!

He's getting a puff piece in Hello magazine so he needs a story to sell. Whenever there's some controversy the PR people want their client to look like a victim, even if it is just a victim of circumstance, and suffering in the name of art is a good line if you can get away with it.

I think being called a liar by a high court judge took it toll, blew his Mr Nice guy image . I was indifferent to him before Strictly but watching and listening to him on the show..... I was delighted to see the back of him .

Unfortunately he will be back with his own special brand of cheese for Saturday's final.

Oh good. It'll be great to see him again.

The moment he opens his mouth to say "Can I just say....?" I'm turning the show off.

That's your prerogative

I'm looking forward to seeing all the contestants back, including the lovely Peter.

Carol Kirkwood ‏@carolkirkwood 13 hrs13 hours ago
So looking forward to being reunited with all the Strictly gang tomorrow. You will see the fruits of our labours on Saturday's live show x

Carol will just be walking around then.

ITA! I had one look at his twitter feed when he was saved, and it was absolutely horrible. The Strictly experience is supposed to be fun, and I bet it stopped being fun for him if not before, then for sure after that dance off.

Yeah, some people completely lost all sense of perspective when it came to him. For a while I barely even saw his actual name written - it was Pondray or Pondscum or things of that ilk, and if not that it was digs at his wife. All just really mean spirited and cruel so if that marred his Strictly experience, I would understand. He's only human. A famewhorey human maybe, but not an unfeeling robot.

Yes, and its not restricted to Peter only.

Regardless of what the 'Strictly issue of the day' happens to be - maybe they've said the wrong thing, made the wrong facial expression at the wrong time, not reacted the way the public would like them to (or in some cases demand them to!)....its not just the drama and pettyness of it all (mountains and molehills come to mind) but just observing how the nastiness intensifies once the bandwagon starts, almost as if people are encouraged by others and its suddenly OK because everyone else is doing it. And it goes on and on and on....

Reading comments here and elsewhere nothing much has changed.

It would be nice if we could just focus on their dances and talk about the final show, but perhaps thats a bit too boring for some.

I liked Peter! I'm not a telly watcher, so I'd never really seen him before, but he struck me as thoroughly decent guy. He gave his all to every routine, and was thoroughly professional in his demeanour. His wife is a junior doctor, which is tremendously demanding, and their baby is at a very dependent age, he has to his own career to pursue, plus responsibilities to children from his first marriage, plus a horrible, high-profile court case. it's not surprising that he was feeling the pressure.

I do not understand the spiteful, mean-spirited attitudes, comments and digs which people feel free to fling around. Peter is a talented musician in his own right, but many talented musicians and artists end up having to supplement their income with secondary jobs, and there's nothing wrong with doing modelling, or reality TV in order to pay the mortgage (if he has one). I cannot help thinking that most of it must be jealousy.

I agree - it's utterly nasueating to read some of the bile which is written here. It's like a baying mob who are showing themselves up as despicable, thoroughly nasty bullies.

What a good post.

I fully understand that he's not everyone's cup of tea but - I'm really confused as to what he did to deserve some of the really spiteful stuff directed at him.

I have to admit that although he comes across the type of person who would turn up to open an envelope for publicity that he also comes across as being a decent guy and a caring dad maybe not the smartest but that's hardly his fault. I think though that in a sense when it comes publicity it's a case of if you're living by the sword then you'll die by the sword. I'm not excusing it but I think some people have it in for Peter because he is someone who has become someone who makes a living out of merely being famous. I'm not saying he deserves everything he gets but it's not a backlash that he could reasonable expect to avoid.

By the way I thought that he was worth having on the show and came across reasonable, hard-working and if a tad toading at times then at least he wasn't being precious. He was worth having on the show but went at the right time and it was actually an interesting surprise that he wasn't quite the ringer I at least was expecting and the judges were honest about his dancing pros and cons. He also went at just the right time and he is at least done no harm to his career. Despite what she says he was better than Jamelia.

This post really needs to be applauded. Those posters who had to resort to ridiculing his accent of all things really showed themselves up by doing so.

Excellent post, I think you've got it spot on. I noticed that Giovanni, in an interview this week said how much he liked Peter and that he hoped to stay in touch with him.

Wasn't a problem that he was hard-working on Strictly for a handful of hours each week as a result of hard work in other areas such as advertising for Iceland and appearing on other TV show "sofas" to promote himself? (I'm sure I read elsewhere here that he spent more time talking to the media about doing Strictly than actually doing Strictly!)

I can forgive folk being annoying (as I found him, but I'm sure I'd annoy him!) but I find it hard to forgive folk who are not taking things seriously. If you take on something like Strictly, then surely you have some moral obligation, if only to yourself, to be as good as you can be, not as good as you can get through doing a half-a*sed job.

On the positive side of things, he's a good mover for a guy in his 40s. At his age, I could barely bend down far enough to tough my shins, let alone my toes!

I must admit that I was one of the ones who thought that there was some kind of agenda in Peter being saved in that first dance off, and I still don't understand how the judges could have saved him over Jamelia -- that Jive was dire.

However, I got so fed up with the way he was being attacked, that I did actually stand up for him here. I may not have agreed with Peter having been saved, but it certainly wasn't his doing that the judges incomprehensibly chose to save him over Jamelia, and he had every right to continue in the competition for as long as the public and the judges put him through.

I still question whether Peter being saved that week was due to idiocy on the judges' parts or if it was due to some kind of agenda, but either way, he didn't deserve to be attacked the way he was. The sad thing is, if he'd just cut down on his other commitments during Strictly, he may have been able to produce a fantastic Jive that week. He wasn't a ringer but he wasn't a bad mover if only he'd made a bit more of an effort.

I agree and why I defended him on here because to be honest it was all very nasty and unpleasant to say the least. It's a dance/entertainment show, it isn't necessary to go as far as it did.