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To think that Strictly Come Dancing winners are chosen from the outset?

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AndreaMarvell · 20/10/2025 00:21

Actually I am a bit disingenuous here because I don't think that myself, but have been party to a lot of grumbling on Facebook page for SCD about it from others who think it is.

This started after moaning that La Voix avoided the dance off last night when the dance was apparently terrible (I've not seen it yet). La Voix and Aljaz avoided the dance off because people voted for them, I imagine. They were all screaming FIX! and saying that the winner is already chosen, and it will be Ellie.

What would be the benefit of picking a lineup and then choosing a winner at the beginning? Did they really nail on Natasha Kaplinsky all those years ago? If it was fixed for disabled contestants to win, why didn't Lauren Steadman, Will Bayley, Jody Cundy or Jonny Peacock do better?

Has the public been gaslit for 21 years? Really?

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SnowFrogJelly · 20/10/2025 00:38

Of course it isn’t fixed

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 20/10/2025 00:36

I have heard it said that they don’t choose the winner, merely the finalists. Which makes sense.

They don’t need to control the winner, they just want the most entertaining possible final. The winner is pretty unimportant to the show’s ratings.

And it’s true or at least probably true - the judges can prop up favoured candidates with good scores so that the public vote will be less likely to see them in the bottom two, and of course they choose who to “save” at the end. Add to that that the programme chooses the dance each contestant will do each week - and of course it’s largely a fix.

All reality TV is a fix up to a point.

I’m not sure how that’s news!

Mistyglade · 20/10/2025 00:32

Facebook twonk bollocks, ignore.

ilovesooty · 20/10/2025 00:31

If that's the case why is George odds on to win with all the leading bookies?

Lilyhatesjaz · 20/10/2025 00:29

I don't think it is fixed.
La Voix did dance badly this week but I think that people are voting for her because she is really funny and they are wanting to hear what she will say next.
I also don't think Ellie will win but she will be In a few more weeks.

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