She wasn't sabotaged. None of her previous dances would have beaten either Ore or Danny. Kevin went the wrong route with the showdance. And their AT wasn't all that.
She just wasn't as good and only those who cannot be objective abot the flaws of their favourite will try and find someone to blame for their failure.
Plus the BBC don't give a stuff who of the three won. It doesn't matter to them one iota.

There is no outright fix or outright cheating. And the producers don't care who wins in the sense of caring about the actual person who may win (or lose).

But reality TV *is* a soap opera. The producers *do* have to create interest.

Therefore, they tread a fine line. They need to create some tension and compelling narratives in order to get viewers hooked and talking about it and thus drawing in new viewers as word spreads. At the same time, they mustn't take it too far and make it too obvious, else people will turn off. See: X Factor.

Nobody at Strictly HQ cared who won. Everybody at Strictly HQ cared that the largest possible number of people tuned in to see who won and that the conversation about who won lasted for as long as possible.

But y'know. Ore danced best over the three routines last night so it all came out in the wash. And my adolescents and their mates got to shout FIX FIX FIX for no other reason than they are all crushing on Oti. And they probably enjoyed shouting FIX FIX FIX more than they would have enjoyed her winning. That's reality TV for you.

(They were still shouting FIX FIX FIX when I picked up them up from the station at 2am by the way. So the producers will probably be happy because they'll have forgotten about FIX FIX FIX next week when they've found some other hapless woman on TV to crush on.)

Well you might be asking the wrong question then, because I don't think "everyone" was saying it was a fix for Louise to win

I think the 'fix' was to get these three to the final. I don't believe the show is that bothered who takes the trophy, but they do want to create storylines and entertainment, though whether you or I like their storylines is another matter. I don't think anyone in production really believed Louise's cha cha was the dance to set her final alight.

I truly believe they did everything they could to get Ore into the final. They're privy to the voting figures, so perhaps if Louise's vote was strong, she didn't need the same leg up. Danny's dancing was probably going to be strong enough regardless of machinations (though I do wonder if it was a shock to them to find him in the DO in the semi-final).

They wanted Ore's SITR (great story if you can get Gene Kelly's widow to make an appearance); they wanted a 'wow' ballroom dance from Danny and the QS filled that brief and was improvable; they needed a contrast so Louise drew the short straw.

I suspect they thought Louise had enough public support to potentially win, but Ore performed better on the night and had a better showdance. Either one makes a better 'story' than Danny winning, but I think, in the end Ore's was the one they ran with. I don't think Louise gave them enough to work with - it was mostly 'unconfident at the beginning. A tiny little bit more confident at the end'.

All of that said (or speculated ), there would have been a Brucie Bonus for the show whichever of the three had won.

She might have been topping the votes before, but the general statistics were against Louise winning the show. Nobody aged over 40 years has won the show before and only one person past the 30 years mark has won since Hollins (and that was only due to the X-factor viewers).

Kevin's best shot at winning the final would have been if he had competed with Frankie in this year.

I don't think that it was a fix, I'm just genuinely shocked that Ore won. I thought that even though he was competent in all 3 dances in the final, all of his performances were pretty dull.