I agree. I'm getting a tad annoyed at people who say that not enough people voted for Claudia and that is why she was in the dance off. It was not as simplistic as that.

We know he didn't get the lowest public vote. So either Danny or Claudia did.

I am sure if I am wrong someone will correct me.

She got saved with that very ropey jive in the DO against the arguably better-on-the-night Greg. So maybe it's just QSs that are badly treated, rather than Claudia...

Still, if she had had enough votes, and Louise hadn't and all that.

It is as it is.

What other reason could there be?

Not true. The judges scores were irrelevant. Ed Balls proved that.

I don't remember her falling over in one of her dances or slipping. She had a decent rumba and an impeccable QS

Agree. Louise makes a mistake, all the judges mention it, yet she gets three 9's and a 10. Ore makes a mistake and doesn't really dance an AT and yet gets three 10's. Claudia does makes no mistakes and does a brilliant quickstep, the judges really praise it and yet she doesn't get even one 10.

Totally ridiculous scoring

Did Claudia ever stand a chance this weekend?

I feared she did.
Great relief that she's gone at last.

Or Ore. Last night he had a good quickstep, although Claudia's was better and an absolutely awful supposed Argentine Tango where he walked, posed, lifted Joanne, kicked his leg, walked again, posed again and Joanne danced and pulled the most awful faces

Agree, which makes it even more laughable when Darcey was booed and she told them this is the semis we are going to be picky!!!!! She's lost all credibility as far as I'm concerned.

You're right, but this is a discussion forum and if a FM thinks that a certain couple's place on the leaderboard affected the result, then there's no problem with them sharing that view.


That Ore should have been lower on the leaderboard, which may have produced a Ore/Danny DO.

I think people like Ed Balls are a different kettle of fish. Their popularity can over-turn the judges scores.

At this point in the competition though the judges scoring is much more important and relevent to who stays and who goes.

She got two! Seriously, between this and the dancer who supposedly "fell over" in their dance it's obvious people are just making stuff up at this point.

In this instance the judges scores were very relevant. It's explained quite clearly in the post you replied to.

yep...even ed balls couldn't beat the wrath of revel horwood's low votes in the end.

MAYBE CLAUDIA SHOULD JUST COME BACK WHEN SHE'S 40, ASK TO DANCE WITH SOMEONE NAMED CLIFTON AND TURN ON THE TEARS EVERY 5 MINUTES.
That is a sure fire way of her getting to the final!

Your opinion only. And Strictly ATs are all rubbish apparantly so there's no bench mark, it's a matter of taste.

I thought he was great. I thought Claudia's Rhumba, whilst not bad and a damned good try, was not good. And I KNOW the Rhumba.

Nope and Ore is consistently way over marked.

funny how the Claudia supporters seem to have erased this from their memory

Of course she stood a chance. All she had to do was work on the issue that the judges had been asking her to for a month or so - and focus on dance, performance and connection.

I don't think she was the worst dancer (second to last last night) but they were the worst partnership and she was the worst performer.

Well if we were all like you and set up 8 different internet accounts to vote for Claudia, we wouldn't be having this discussion would we?

Exactly

She did have connection in the rumba but the judges obviously wanted her gone so just came up with any excuses to score her less than their three favourites.

Seems the poll is settling down at around 60/40 YES she was screwed over!

It didn't deserve it. There wasn't enough dance content even though the air dancing was impressive.