Actually Louise could have come second in the vote and still avoided the dance-off so there's no need to believe that she won it. Claudia clearly would have needed to win the vote to avoid the dance-off so it's not at all difficult to understand why she didn't. And given the consistent charge of being a ringer (justified or not) it's not at all surprising that Danny did not beat Louise in the vote and may well have also come behind Ore. All in all. I think this is actually one of the most predictable final groupings in years so what everybody's up in arms about is simply beyond my ken.

He definitely became below him in the vote - he was only one place below him on the leaderboard so if he'd beaten him in the public vote, Ore would have been in the dance-off either instead of him or as well as him.

Thanks for this Monkseal. And to others who figure out the odds.

Boggles my brain.

So Ore MUST have beaten Danny in the vote.

Fantastic.

i don't mind people behaving like 5 year olds, they are some of the most charming people i've ever met, and letting off a bit of nursery silly-billiness is an outlet for some. not counting me of course.

its the perverse, cruel, paranoid, suspicious, unhealthy, vitriolic and self serving that i find more worrying, the poison pen letter writer let lose and proud by anonymity, without any apparent insight.

My thoughts weren't just random about this. They weren't based on what I thought they should be but what I thought they would be. They were based on several things- previous voting patterns, online support and having watched every single series. Also having a fairly good grasp on how things usually play out. We're really expected to believe that the least popular celeb polled either the highest or second highest public vote? No, doesn't wash I'm afraid.

So to be clear, you are actually accusing the independent company of 'fixing' the votes?

Least popular where. I'm sure YouGov poll had Claudia bellow Ore as least popular.

How do you know Ore is the least popular celeb? How do you know what the voting patterns are?

You can't possibly answer those questions with anything other than speculation - and Monkseal is right.

The fact is we have no idea how popular/unpopular Danny has been. There's just an assumption that he must have the public vote, but when he's topped the leader board so often, maybe that's not the case. Indeed, what if the judges have been over marking Danny in previous weeks to protect him?

Just saying …

Yes! By the way, what's the name of the independent company?

Claudia already lost to Ore once, at Blackpool. She's also now lost to Louise (twice), Ed, and Judge Rinder. Why her fans are still trying to present her as some sort of public vote juggernaut that got denied by a sliver, just because they personally got overexcited by a half-decent Argentine Tango, is beyond me.

From online polls. From what people are saying on social media. DS is a pretty good guide for who is most and least popular. It's not hard to hazard a guess at the voting patterns from previous results.

Gor blimey guvnor, why on earth would they risk prosecution for a bloody TV SHOW

I'll get me tin hat.

Yougov?! Excuse me while I laugh myself silly over that one!! Ha!

How are they ever going to be prosecuted when they don't reveal their figures?

I guess that's why Saara just won The X Factor by a gazillion miles and Martin just won I'm A Celebrity.

This forum is a backwater, and the more it bogs itself down in things like Cliftonphobia, the more it stagnates.

Online polls and voting patterns mean nothing. They can contradict one another. And DS is a tiny microcosm of the SCD audience.

You can hazard all the guesses you like - but it won't get you anywhere other than even more annoyed.

I wouldn't know about the common ITV shows! It's always been a pretty good guide for Strictly.

its more of a lawless hillbilly backwoods sort of place

I don't think it is.

Exactly. And they clearly weren't trying to engineer Kellie out at that point either - and she wasn't doing the tour either. It's total nonsense

Great post agree. The forum is a small drop in the ocean compared to the numbers who watch the show and vote

Quite. And that's just the weeks that we know of!

I find Louise's vote the interesting one

I still think Danny will win it though

Like 'Deliverance'?

To be fair, if the judges order was changed then the public vote might be too. Just because the public voted one way for a specific leaderboard doesn't mean they would vote the same way for a different one.

I can tell you quite categorically that the vote will have been verified independently and that it is totally above board!

The judges may well have their own subjective favourites or preferences but I doubt very much that there is any overall conspiracy and there's not a chance that the vote was messed with.

I understand why some people might be disappointed that Claudia went out or that Danny was in the dance off but some of these theories are nonsense