Strictly!

[Osc]

It may well have been her time, Gal, but she has won all her dance offs by upping her game and improving each time, putting into practise what the judges said. Peter was even worse in the dance off and he made no effort at all to do the two things that were said to him - improve his hands and point his toes in the kicks and flicks. It was a dance only suitable for week 2 or 3. Huge outrage on social media, with people freely admitting that they were not fans of Jamelia, but wanted to see fair play, which it blatantly was not. The only upside is that Jamelia and Tristan behaved graciously and with dignity when I am sure all the other dancers, pros and celebs, knew they had been victims of a very obvious fix.

[Aggers]

I totally agree with everything that has been said here.
It was an obvious fix, and the BBC should be ashamed.

I wouldn't be surprised if Len Goodman packs it in soon. He was the only judge with the right answer.
That was patently obvious to anyone, knowledgeable on ballroom dancing or not.

This could prove to be the BBC's biggest mistake ever.

[Osc]

Aggers, the cynic in me says that it was easy for him to disagree, as he did not need to cast the deciding vote

[Diflower]

I agree Osc, he's often done that and I've thought it was to make the other couple feel a bit better.

Totally agree about Peter; I'd been surprised to like him but this dance was just as rubbish second time!
I didn't know anything about Jamelia and could take or leave her but prefer the judging to be fair. She had improved a lot and her dance-off dance was better than the first

[Aggers]

Just read this comment on the BBC Strictly website:-

"heard since about the audience's reaction - booing - to the judges' verdict,
which was edited out!. Says it all really!"

[Osc]

I've seen that too Aggers, and apparently they filmed a standing ovation and edited it in because the audience stayed seated after Peter's dance off.

[Aggers]

I must say , I'm inclined to stop watching SCD now, and I hope that thousands of others do the same.
It will serve the BBC right. Perhaps the twisted idiots who engineered this deception will be fired.

The whole business stinks, IMO.

[Osc]

So at least Peter Andre has been sent home and rightly so, he wasn't much better this week. I really enjoyed the Quickstepathon apart from the dire camerawork which made it hard to actually see how everyone was doing. This is how it is done in real competition and I think it should be done more on Strictly, so everyone is doing the same dance and you can compare like with like. We reckoned the judges took ages giving their marks because they were figuring out how it would affect the leaderboard. Didn't all the men look lovely in their proper tail suits

[miasmum]

In the early series' they did all do the same dance, well a choice of two. One half of the celebs did a ballroom, but all the same one and the other half did a latin dance.

I much preferred this. It is unfair now that some celebs get a very difficult dance really early on and someone else gets to do it much later

[TheOstrich]

It wasn't a surprise that Peter Andre went - but to be honest, I thought he upped his game in the Sunday night dance-off, whilst Kellie Bright looked like she was just going through the motions .....

Didn't particularly enjoy the quickstep-athon because, as you said Osc, the camerawork was awful. And I prefer the "thon" format where they haul the losers off the floor one by one whilst the others continue to dance, but I accept that given the nature of the quickstep, that format might be difficult to apply in practice.