I'm sorry, but Colin got constant abuse on here for being 'cold and competitive' despite being the epitome of sweetness and light, as far as I could see. It's not sexism, it's who's liked or fancied.

Neither do I think Gabby was too competitive, I just think that was the 'storyline' that the BBC assigned to her, one which would have seen her voted out sooner or later anyway. Suggestion to competitors - never use the word competitive, or say that you want to win. Say you're having fun, you love your partner and you just hope your dance is good enough to stay in one more week. The GBP lap that stuff up.

Don't say you want to stay in because you'll get to wear fancy boots. Do say you want to stay in because you'll get to wear a kilt.

I've said it before but I think it's worth saying again ...

If the judges want it to be taken seriously and run as a proper competitve event would be run, they should remove the public vote and bring in a panel of qualified Ballroom and Latin judges.

If they want to keep the public vote for charitable purposes, then they should accept that the public will vote for who they like, on whatever criteria makes the most sense to them, on the evening in question.

Len wailing on ITT does nothing to commend him in my book.

If the judges want it to be taken seriously and as a really competitive event they should remove people who can't dance, only have celebrities who have had dance training and make it more of a level playing field.

If they want to take part in a Saturday variety entertainment programme, that also is raising money for charity, that has an element of humiliation in the voting where a large proportion of viewers will vote for the underdog, then they should shut up about it not being about the dancing.

If they don't like that set up, they shouldn't be there.

But unfortunately it's not just on the evening in question, as the BBC have changed it so that people can vote throughout the week which means people like Gethin, Dominic and particularly Kate who are on national tv throughout the week can canvas for votes unlike most of the others. A bit of an unfair playing field IMHO. It would be better if they went back to voting only on Saturday night when people would be more inclined to vote on the dancing rather than the personality but I doubt that will ever happen again as they are after as much money as they can for Children in Need. I think the BBC have to decide whether this is a dancing competition as the American version is or just yet another reality show to make money for CIN.

I agree. With the voting set up in the way it is, the judges really have no room to criticise how the public may choose to vote.

As I see it, the judge's final decision on the bottom two was brought in to prevent a repeat of the situation where Emma or Zoe, despite being top of the leaderboard, ended up with less votes. It was a blatant re-jigging of the format to keep their favourites in - you only have to look at their faces when Matt was kept in over Emma last year - and gain power over the final decision. However the voting public favoured Matt and Mark and thought that they deserved to be in the final.

It's a bit rich for Len et al to throw a hissy fit because their plan backfired.

Everybody seems to be taking the whole thing far too seriously. How important is a shiny mirror ball? The Judges were full of their own importance last series and I thought they couldn't get any worse - how wrong was I?! How dare they slate the public for voting for who they want is outrageous behaviour from so called professional judges. Why do these judges insist that only the best dancers should stay in the competition. I thought the programme was about watching unlikely dancers improve each week, not pick the best and dump the rest! Eventually everybody ends up voted out what difference does it make if it's sooner rather than later?

All the judges need to do to stop the weird voting is to resist the temptation to be gratuitously rude to the poorer dancing celebs. I bet if they softened their stance and tried to be, oh I don't know, constructive in their comments to Kate and Kenny, they would duly end up in the bottom two. Because the public isn't stupid and know they can't dance.

Personally I find it hugely amusing that the judges don't like the big two fingers given to them by the voting public...