Originally Posted by
Sandy_Andrews:
“OK hands up - and I like Helen too. Pixie not so much. but this followed weeks of really nasty digs at Georgia and suffocating over enthusiasm over Helen, the awful plastic Pixie and several other young women who didn't happen to be called Georgia 
This included links and praise enough to make your hair curl - even in an appreciation thread we would have thought the posters were becoming totally obsessed and sad !
At least bringing reality to the thread for ten minutes stopped the attacks on Georgia which made a nice change.
Damning one woman by overpraising another has become an art form here, and nudge, nudge 'look I got a good one in there' must be the subject of all their PMs - if they didn't start these threads to attack Georgia (It is Georgia rather than GG which almost naturally seems very sexist) they would just post their family news to each other and tell each other how super duper they are and how much they fully agree with each other !
It is a great pity they don't use their energy in posting in the appropriate appreciation threads about the favoured few where they would be talking to like minded people and no one would disturb them.
Since you ask I think coming 'right out with it' is a great deal more honest than posting the speculation that the rest of the cast of BAT would be terribly devastated when Pixie left for example - implying that they would hate Georgia - I would speculate that it will be very much the reverse, Georgia has the habit of making friends where ever she works and as Pixie doesn't appear to have any rapport with her male co-stars on stage (See most reviews) I can only see them having a great deal more with Georgia !”
I can understand how it all escalated and I know it's not nice reading unfavourable comments about someone you like. I've probably posted things in the past which I wouldn't have if I'd thought about it a bit longer before clicking
. It just all seems to be going round in circles and it doesn't look like anyone is going to change their minds. If people want to keep doing it though it's none of my business.
As I said, I wasn't really a fan of any of them on the show, but outside of it they all basically seem like nice people who all seem to like each other and have friends/family/co-stars who love them. I think it's been established that nobody's perfect - most of them have said or done something unfortunate at some point (or stood in the wrong place in a photo
) but they are all trying to make it in a difficult business and are having successes in various different ways, which is nice for all of them and as others have said is good for Strictly.
Re Pixie's pineapple dress.... As I've said before her dress sense isn't always my cup of tea
but I do marvel at the size of her wardrobe - I don't think I've ever seen her in the same thing twice. As for being off-topic, maybe we need another thread 'Which Strictly contestant has gone on to have the most sartorial success' or something....
I'd just look like a Pineapple
Posters are their own people and I cannot control what people say or post. But I think you've said it well enough yourself - no need for personal insults 