Some mentioned it in the spoiler thread and others in rl have said as much.

I have watched Strictly since series one and I can honestly say that this is the first year where I don't particularly like any of the finalists for various reasons. Funnily enough I didn't have a favourite this year, just people I enjoyed watching. However, I am one for fair play and I don't think that was apparent on Saturday. As many have said it does appear to have been skewed to ensure that Ore was safe and I think that Claudia should have been in the final instead of Ore or Louise.

Also if people want to sign a petition then its entirely up to them. If you think its pathetic then its entirely up to you.

Well, you're wrong in your assumption. If I ever did have a favourite, they are no longer in the competition.

See!! Never assume!!!

The public did not vote enough for Claudia, she lost the vote. Had she had more points I think she still would have been in the dance off. I wonder how many people who are shouting fix, actually voted?

The paper said, there were problems in the first few minutes the voting opened. But it was the same for all four of them.

DITTO

I have just read the petition statement.

Word to the wise. When you are criticising an organisation for bias, don't produced an equally biased statement. Also, be careful with generalisations. Claudia was, no doubt popular with some, but to call her 'fan-favourite' is, plain rubbish. If she were the fan-favourite, she'd never have been in a DO.

Will I sign it? What do you think?

That's far too sensible for this thread.

Oops!!!

Sorry!!

The petition is almost 24 hours old and hasn't made 1000 signatures.

Just sayin'.....................

Bet the Clifton's/judges/BBC have fixed that as well.

(I hope they're going to reinstate the rolling eyes emoticon!!)

You can have 5 million signatures & it still won't make any difference.

You're SO right!!!

Their teen channel has been called CBBC for years just to get people used to the look of those letters together, then they will just drop one of the Bs and move the label to their main channel...

This has been planned for years.

Yeah but it still wouldn't have included Claudia because of the knife fight incident backstage at Blackpool. Plus of course the cancellation of the final because of what Tess said about Muslims two weeks after that.

Rewriting the past is such fun!

This petition isn't going to change anything. She's gone and that's it. We can't do anything about it.

I too was sad and annoyed to see her go last night. She should have made it to the final. But as soon as Craig Revel-Horwood said "I save Ore and Joanne", due to the predictable nature off how the dance-off judges voting usually goes I then thought "Oh that's it now. They're all going to vote to save Ore and Joanne! So Claudia's gone tonight.".

Ore was never in the DO last night, it was Danny

Mate, Ore wasn't in the dance off, he scored more public vote than Danny. Danny was there though.

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Yep, sorry got mixed up who the other couple was. It was Danny and Oti I meant.

I enjoyed Claudia and Danny's dancingmost on the night, but I can't say as if I understand why people think it's (prepare eye rolls) fixed. There's only one way that Claudia could have not been in the bottom 2 of the votes, if it went Louise, Claudia, Ore & Danny which may have been the case but I doubt it, and also protecting Ore? If Ore had finished at the bottom of the public vote, he would have had to face the dance off, with the tie between Claudia and Louise at the bottom.

I hear Stephanie Beacham, as a former winner, is going to reprise her showdance to 'Oops! Upside Your Head! (Ft. nice sit down).

Would she even want to come back just to be beaten again. I'd have thought once was enough.

Impressed by the heat of your passion about it all and you don't know who you're talking about.