Hear Hear - well said.

I wonder if either will be on ITT???

To be even crueler; he always reminded me of "Bodybags"dancing at her anniversary party after the "bad girls" put some speed in her drink. It was one of the funniest things ever. They both spun around the place like those cheap little wind up toys you used to get for Christmas.

He suffers for the little man syndrome and need to get over himself.

Should be "interesting". I think it'll be so cringe-inducing it'll be a "watch through your fingers" job!

I was pretty narked by the ungraciousness of his exit ~ when he thanked the backstage persons he totally ruined it by prefacing it with "I'm going to say this becuase I don't think anyone else has said it yet", which just smacked of mealy-mouthed self-importance. Ironic that he was presumably attempting to imply that he was the most gracious evictee to date, as he was polite enough to thank the crew, yet he can't see quite how petty and spiteful he appeared.

This year's Jan Ravens.

i just thought he looked like Mr Potato head - I mean he was all head and no body, and no shoulders anywhere in sight

Actually, thinking about it, did he even make a point of thanking Lilia personally until Bruce brought it up

I actually remarked to OH when he was voted out that the judges seemed to some extent to be basing their voting on John & Dom's performances throughout the series so far rather than just the dance off. Having said that, it probably wasn't a bad thing as John Barnes clearly has more potential.

No, I don't think he did. He wasn't very chivalrous all round, really, was he?

IMO Dom had a vastly inflated idea of his own ability. He preferred to think the judges were involved in some sort of conspiracy theory in order to get him out, forgetting that the public have 50% of the vote, so they clearly didn't find him a good dancer or an endearing character. Lilia might have choreographed some touchy, feely stuff into an earlier routine, but he seemed to think this gave him carte blanche to paw her at every opportunity. And as for that last dance, he was lucky Lilia didn't give him a good slap. If there was any public sympathy left for him he has surely lost it with his ungracious comments in the Daily Mail and although I didn't see Breakfast it would appear he repeated them there, so he can hardly claim to have been misquoted.

I was thinking exactly the same thing myself, he might have done all the steps but they were done kind of parrot fashion if you know what I mean, it would have looked exactly the same with or without music, he just looked as thought he was marching round the floor.
What a bad loser

I too noticed how uncomfortable Lilia looked, generally and with the thumb stroking. But only saw the last 5 mins, so was not sure why. You have kindly explained that it was because of unnecessary "pawing" throughout.

And Lilia's father is sick? Hopefully her exit is a blessing in disguise so that she can be with him.

Can anyone explain EXACTLY how the judges marks contribute to the final marks? (or link me to a thread on this).

Particularly how, if you have only 1 point (bottom of the leaderboard), you are not necessarily in the bottom 2? Thank you

I do remember he defended the lying, cheating, obnoxious Thatcherite throwback. She was willing to do whatever it takes to get what she wants and maybe he is the same.

When you think about how he makes or made his living he had to negotiate and badger for what he wanted. During that final dance he repeatedly pestered Lilia thinking he could put his hands where he wanted, even after she objected and pulled away he pulled her back again. Dancing close together and touching whilst doing the choreography is one thing but you can see she is not happy with what he was doing last night. She was on the verge of tears and looked very stressed.
She should have dug her heels into his groin and see if he wanted to grab her again!

I did initially think Lilia was making a fool of him with all this bottom patting in the choreography but during training and on Saturday night it does look like he was always after her bum. Maybe it was his idea to put all that in, I don't know.
His behaviour this past week has done him no favours whatsoever. What a horrible man.

The top couple in the judges estimation gets 10 points, the couple coming second 9 points etc down to the bottom couple with the judges marks who get 1 point.
Then whoever comes top with the public (ie most votes) gets 10 points down to 1 for the least popular and these are added to the judges points giving the overall total.
So for example bottom with the judges (1 point) and top with the public (10 points) would get them 11 points. 8th place with the judges (3 points) and 5th with the public (6 points) would only leave a total of 9 points. If a couple of people ended up with less than 11 points in this case, would mean the bottom couple with the judges don't end up in the bottom 2 overall. Hope i've made sense.

I've always thought it was blatantly rigged from the start. Those paid the most will be there till the end. I.E Letitia and Kelly and Penny.

I reckon Alesha will spoil the party.

I'd be very surprised if all those 3 made it to the final, but if they do you can come back and say I told you so.
I would guess Alesha would be as popular as anybody, both with judges and public, not to mention Matt and Gethin.
Also I thought they got paid the same, if there was a sliding scale I would have thought that would cause some friction.

They are all paid the same this year.

It was announced before SCD started this year that all celebs will recieve the same. So that shoots down your theory.

Dominic had that 'the world is out to get me' attitude which is so ugly!

Don't you hold back now.

Now this is assessment is far more feasible IMO than some of the other stuff that's flying around.

ITT will certainly be interesting, hopefully we'll be able to tell more from that. Wonder if it'll be anything like the one did Claire and Brendan did, when it became clear they didn't like each other.

I hope they sit on opposite ends of the sofa

I know this is off topic, but what happens if the points after the judges points and public vote points are level? For instance, if 3 couples were on the same number of points, who gets the nod to not be in the dance-off?

I really dislike the new dance-off. The way it's done is really unfair. The judges seem to vote on future or past performances, rather than the actual dance. Surely it would be better if they actually scored the dance like they do in the Saturday show. I think if Dominic has anything to moan about it's this, otherwise he's just a poor loser.

In the past the public vote dictated the outcome - I assume it is the same this year.