All three couples qualify from semi-final and phone votes roll over to next week
Sunday, 14 December 2008
In the Strictly Come Dancing semi-final last night, the last minute surprise was that nobody was eliminated.
Lisa Snowdon & Brendon Cole, Rachel Stevens & Vincent Simone plus Tom Chambers & Camilla Dallerup will all dance in the final next week.
The decision was made because radio show presenter Lisa and singer Rachel tied with 75 points each from the judges. Lisa's Argentine Tango was incredibly sexy and Rachel's American Smooth was a delight.
This meant that Holby City star Tom would definitely have been in the dance-off - whatever way viewers voted.
The BBC decided that it was better to finish the show early and carry the votes over to next week.
The dancing couples were all clearly delighted to be told nobody was leaving and celebrated together on the dance floor.
Alesha Dixon & Matthew Cutler beat EastEnders star Matt Di Angelo & Flavia Cacace in the 2007 final.
It was the first time that Strictly's final had only two pairs of contestants. Model Kelly Brook was a strong contender to take the 3rd place but pulled out of the show after her father died.
This year it was political journalist John Sergeant who quit. Though his 'flat-footed' dancing was savaged by the judges, he was a huge hit with the public.
'The trouble is that there is now a real danger that I might win the competition,' John explained before waltzing off.
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What are the BBC playing at - DONT CHANGE THE RULES HALF WAY THROUGH THE EVENING - I HAVE WASTED MY VOTE - I VOTED BASED ON HOW THEY DANCED TONITE - I MIGHT NOT VOTE THE SAME WAY NEXT WEEK BASED ON HOW THEY PERFORM THEN.
Not a good idea to send all 3 couples thru unless there was a problem with counting the phone votes in time for the live show. A bit of a damp squib !
The BBC messed up the voting. After Rachel and Lisa got equal scores from the judges, it was mathematically impossible for Tom to avoid the dance-off - even if he had won the public vote he would have had to do the dance-off against one of the girls. The votes for Tom would, therefore, have been wasted. With all the fuss over vote-rigging last year, the BBC clearly took a last-minute decision to roll over the votes rather than be accused of running up phone charges that had no chance of counting for anything.
What a farce,in other words,it was just a "fill in " programme tonight!
Used to love SCD but now just feel we are being taken for a bunch of mugs by the BBC...need to get rid of those waste of space judges too..goodbye SCD
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