What are people thinking! Kate is so far below the standard of the other celebs.

She must of been at least halfway up the leaderboard in terms of public vote given that John managed to make it into the bottom two. She must have a lot of support. She wasn't really bad, the judges didnt really slate nor did they even mention her injury and she still got a massive public vote.

I love Anton and wish he was dancing with someone else as I just can't take to Kate.

She has improved since last week but I can see that she is struggling. When she has to do the more active dances, she'll suffer physically.
I think those that are voting out of sympathy are really doing her a dis-service and it's messing up the chances of those dancers that have a better chance of improving!

Well

Fiona and Brendan lasted till week 4,
Georgina and James lasted till week 4,
Diarmod and Nicole lasted till week 4,

I'm gonna say week 4... she'll do one good dance say American Smooth, get an mid twenties score then will not need the public and go

Chris Parker and Hana - THE FINAL mmmmmmm

Be fair, she has a painful and debilitating injury and even with it, she's little worse than the overrated Kelly and Penny.

Unfortunately she`s a lame duck contestant, who`s injured and will never be fit enough to put in the required hours of training. I`v suffered from tendonitis and it will not subside fully without several weeks of rest.

How long will she last?
She's already lasted too bleeding long!

I just hope she goes at week 4.
They should put her on to dance first. Her samba with Anton ain't gonna be pretty

I would urge people to judge her on the quality of her dancing, not sympathy for her injury. It is tough on her, but hey, it happens. She should not have a place on the show at the disbenefit of better dancers.

I can put up with the fact that she's the worst dancer... but does she have to be so sour and miserable about appearing in the show? Every appearance kills the fun atmosphere. Poor Anton, having to put up with such a whinge-bag. (Perhaps she should have a pep talk from her "counsellor" husband/beard - the dreaded Derrick Draper of corrupt politics notoriety.)

I was delighted she did not go, especially for Anton's sake. She did not deserve such low marks.

The minute she's in the bottom two, she'll be out. Even if she isn't the worst in the dance-off, the judges will resent her for beating 'better' dances in previous weeks.

well i think the judges was a bit hard on her this week she danced a lot better , and the points they gave her was to low that why i voted for her this week

i wonder if people are more vting for antonrather than kate - he has a big fanbase

But he had the teeny vote... none of three I mentioned had such a vote. As i'd imagine it would be going to either Gethin or Matt

How can anyone think it's all about how they perform when the lines are open all week?

If it was they'd have a small window at the end of the show and open phone lines and then close them until the following week.

It's nothing more than a popularity contest with dancing.

It may not be a sympathy vote. it may just be a straight anti-judge vote. Whoever they dislike most you vote for. That explains better what tends to happen - notably last year - which is that the anti vote moves to the next judges target as soon as they give the original target a few more decent marks/comments. Not so good people tend to go when they are actually getting better after better people left because they got the votes.

Hopefully unless she improves alot no more than a couple of more weeks

I like Kate, but she needs to show more flesh and do the slutty thing and she would go a long way. Otherwise she will be out next time

I think she'll leave soon, hopefully next week.
She seems lovely but shes nowhere near as good a dancer/performer as the other females.

I thought the lines opened at the beginning of the show and closed 1hr after the end??? I don't recall seeing the phone numbers to vote for at the end of ITT which would be an ideal place to display them. Could be wrong tho.

Yes, I agree. I like her, she seems nice but she is awful. I feel ashamed for her when she is being dragged around the floor by Anton. Time she went.

Didnt Tess say after tonights result show that one could vote for their favourite by dialling their no`s ?

Think the voting closes at 9pm on Saturday but must re-open sunday evening.

Taken from the BBC SCD website

"The rest is up to to you, the viewer. You can vote for your favourite by phone any time during the week, except between 9pm on Saturday show and the end of Sunday's results show. The phone lines will close at 9pm, and the votes will be counted and verified."