Actually I really like Kristina and I do like Christine too. I just happen to be rather fond of Matt!♥

However, much as I like Kristina and think she's a really good addition to the show, I do think her partner isn't trying at all and therefore I wouldn't vote for them anyway - even if John was dancing with Matt lol.

I like all the pros - some more than others - and mostly like their celeb partners too especially those who are really trying and improving week on week, but Lorelei Lee asked what I thought was an honest question, and I gave an honest answer.

so you think some of the five million people that watch the one show are voting for Christine?
If that was the case Andrew would of lasted a lot longer as he had gmtv. And what about Jessie having the 9 million EE viewers?

I think the OP asked a valid question, im sure there are people who vote for Christine mainly because they like Matt. He did win last year and is winning the favourite pro poll on here. She/he is not slagging off Christine so i dont understand why people are so sensitive about it.
Im sure a lot of the Rachel fans are Vincent supporters really its what happens when you are fond of a pro.

Except that, if the answers on this thread and the one linked by katkim are anything to go by, she isn't! She is attracting votes because of her dancing/personality/partnership with Matthew but not exclusively because of it.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of each dancer (be they pro or celeb) and, indeed, to express it as snidely as they wish within the DS t&cs, but do please give those of us who do choose to vote dancers you may not yourself want to vote for credit for doing so for valid reasons!

The One Show is prime time viewing; GMTV is not

And Jessie wasn't/ isn't current and therefore does not REGUARLY appear on TV

I think the word 'some' was used in that post, not that all five million are voting for her.

I think this would only be a valid and fair question if it was asked about every single couple. I do knwo this is a forum and people can ask what they want, but I am also allowed to defend Christine when I think she is being unfairly singled out.

I see you edited it now anna123. My response was to your original post.

If you read the thread you will see it was in reply to Force Ten's original post


It was friendly banter and as I have already said many times everyone is entitled to vote for anyone for whatever reason.

Or with John.

So people that watch the one show vote for her just because she s the presenter?

So much for it being about the dancing.

I have to get one thing out of the way first,...I unfortunatly can't vote for any of the couples because I live outside the UK. But to answer your question: I'm a huge fan of Matthew Cutler (and James Jordan LOL ) but I would not vote for Matthew Cutler and Christine simply because I don't like this partnership. It really doesn't do anything for me. Matthew and Alesha last year were magical, Matthew and Christine on the other hand aren't magical for me. No matter how much I like Matthew Cutler this partnership is a no vote for me.

You might be on to something there.

Hmm, fair point, although it seems to have gone that way anyway.

I singled out Christine mainly because I (that's me and me alone, nobody else has to agree!) can't see her appeal and because I know Matt has a big, big following compared to some of the other pros.

So...let's open it up to the floor. Is anyone voting for any current couples because they are fans of the pro, not the celeb half of the partnership?

And yes, I will allow you to mention John as long as it is pertinent to the question

naughty SCD-O! Bad image!

Except you've just given her a not-so-endearing name. Name-calling, no?

I'm not saying they will vote for her JUST because she is on the one show; I'm saying that she already well known and is CURRENT in the public eye... it would be much easier for people to take to her because she is well known by people.

Others in the competition could struggly initially - Jodie for instance - as she is not as well known or ingratiated into the publics affections. This is not the case now however as I would say by this stage everyone has chosen their favourite (or most people have)

OK. Good, I'm happier now, teehee. I only ever vote for the celebrities, and never the pros. I try not to let myself 'get to know' the pros too well, so it doesn't influence my judgement. Maybe this would be a good reason to change the pros every year - however impractical that may seem.

You could be onto something there.

I just think some people take this show far too seriously, its fun, some are good some are bad some are very bad. Judges arenot getting any better.

Craig got his handed on a plate to him by John on ITT.......best part of the show so far.

PS - Craig your not intelligent enough to take on John.......

Of course the only way to make this purely a dancing show (to begin with anyway), would be to have non-celebs and unknown professional dancers.

They could do a piece from "It ain't half hot mum" with Matthew in drag.

Imagine ITT doing a wedding clip between Matt and John. *shudders*

No, much as I like Kristina, I won't vote for John because he's becoming a bore on the dancefloor.

Christine has grown on me. I did find her 24/7 smile suspicious at first, but after seeing her genuinely happy for being voted through last Saturday, and her willingness to improve, made me warm to her. If she does well this Saturday but be in the middle of the leaderboard, I will vote for HER.

I vote for Christine and Matt, more times than is good for my phone bill if I am honest.

At first I was voting for Matthew but now I vote for the partnership. Christine has improved so much and I think this is what the programme is all about. I hated all the negative comments about Christine, she was judged on a few edited minutes. People were unnecessarily unkind to a young woman they know almost nothing about. I would have been mortified if some of those things had been said about me.

Anyway my name is Christine and my son is Matthew.....got to be a sign hasn't it?

The debate about Christine and her 'niceness' reminds me very much of the debate over Rachel in this years Big Brother and her 'niceness'

Despite others questioning it throughout enough people agreed with me that Rachel was a genuinely lovely young woman and as we know, she pulled off a 'shock', to some, victory.

We might see a similar 'shock' in SCD.

..and just to clarify, I like Matt, but like Jamie I vote for and support the celebrity.

I did read the rest of the thread, but your post seemed based on the assumption (one that seems to implicitly be shared by the OP, incidentally) that Christine is attracting votes simply because of who her professional partner is. At that point, the evidence of the thread was such that such an argument woudn't seem to hold much water. Hence my comment!

The OP (for it is she ) would like to point out that she had no assumption, just a possibility whose validity she wanted to test - and which I think has been thoroughly debunked now anyway.

But don't go putting words into my posts what I never said!