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What does peev me about the show is the fact that in most cases, it is NOT the public that decide who will leave the show. If it were, then the voting would be taken entirely from the telephone vote and NOT from the 'Mentors'. Two of the last five finalists have been voted off by the lowest public vote. The rest have been voted off by the mentors. It is THEY that make the final decision as to who will leave from the two lowest polled competitors. Forgive me if I'm being pedantic but surely if people have taken the time and spent the money to vote, the least they should be getting for their time and money is to vote on who stays and who goes.
Lets take Laura last week for an example. For all we know the voting could have been something like:
We'll forget Diana obviously as she got through on a Freebie because she had a sore throat... What a joke! Here come the Diana Fans...!
Alex 20 votes
Daniel 20 votes
Eoghan 18 votes
Ruth 18 votes
Laura 17 votes
Rachel 15 votes
So the bottom two were (in this case), Laura and Rachel. But the general Public voted more in favour of Laura, meaning Rachel should exit the show. However, the 'Mentors' decided that Rachel should stay and Laura had to go. Now I don't know how the voting went and I'm not saying that we necessarily should see the voting figures (it could be upsetting for someone to see they have polled a VERY LOW vote), but what I am saying is that it would be fairer to EVERYONE including the competitors, if the person who left the show was the one that polled the lowest votes of the general 'paying' public! If the mentors are going to make the ultimate decision of who stays and who goes then why bother with the public vote at all? Apart from the millions it raises in revenue of course!!!
Lets take Laura last week for an example. For all we know the voting could have been something like:
We'll forget Diana obviously as she got through on a Freebie because she had a sore throat... What a joke! Here come the Diana Fans...!
Alex 20 votes
Daniel 20 votes
Eoghan 18 votes
Ruth 18 votes
Laura 17 votes
Rachel 15 votes
So the bottom two were (in this case), Laura and Rachel. But the general Public voted more in favour of Laura, meaning Rachel should exit the show. However, the 'Mentors' decided that Rachel should stay and Laura had to go. Now I don't know how the voting went and I'm not saying that we necessarily should see the voting figures (it could be upsetting for someone to see they have polled a VERY LOW vote), but what I am saying is that it would be fairer to EVERYONE including the competitors, if the person who left the show was the one that polled the lowest votes of the general 'paying' public! If the mentors are going to make the ultimate decision of who stays and who goes then why bother with the public vote at all? Apart from the millions it raises in revenue of course!!!