Oh my God I am going to call Ofcom

And I am stamping my feet, and then I am going to email the BBC and I am COMPLAINING. Because they cut my beloved Claudia down to 20 minutes of ITT, (that is the ITT before the quarter final), in favour of some blokes sitting round discussing what might happen in June next year, and then what might conceivably happen sometime in June next year, if such and such happens and then with a fair wind behind, what might possibly happen at some time at the end of June next year, possibly, speculatively, hypothetically... When we all know that what happens tomorrow is the really important thing, and now I have just realised we have two shows tomorrow, so I am going to have to cancel all social arrangements in support of Team Cola, and my boyfriend is going to have a hissy fit, and, and, and ...talk about crisis!

And somehow it wouldn't be so bad, if I had had a full half hour of Claudia, especially the only week in the last two months when she has had the Divine Mr C on the show. Does anyone know the number for Ofcom anyway?

So Natalie Lowe has thrown caution to the winds, and has said she was aiming for a 40 for each dance. Couple of points, love. You also need the public vote, especially at this stage of the competition, and you have just guaranteed yourself a 1 in the public vote. Second vote - they have shipped Darcey in this week, which means the scores are out of 50, so if you are happy with a 40 out of 50 - well you just go ahead, and foxtrot off out of the competition with the most talented male since Colin Jackson (and ask fellow Antipodean what happened there....just call it original and brave choreography, and don't mention the puppets).

OK, seeing that I had to put up with that rugby punditry thing, here is my punditry:

Darcey will swiftly replace Alesha as hate figure on the judging panel for daring to express an opinion on anything at all.

The leaderboard will be very carefully arranged so that Team Cola are in the Dance Off and the whole interweb will be going into meltdown circa 10pm tomorrow. Come on, there hasn't been a real meltdown since that time in the quarter final when Matt di Angelo decided he liked sitting on the steps rather than doing his dance. Twice. And got voted through. Or last year when Austin got dumped in favour of Lisa and Brendan. So we are overdue a real brouhaha. Just sit back and enjoy the ride!

Seriously, for Team Cola to survive, they either need to haul themselves off the bottom of the leaderboard for both dances (latin should be doable: have you seen Anton salsa?), or the public vote needs to fall in a very precise way.

So will the public votes defeat the machinations of the judges? Will the producers avoid the pitfall of getting the public favourite eliminated at this stage? (According to rumour they are getting 40% more of the vote than their nearest rivals). Or will it all turn into a bit of a make do and mend like last year? (Of course a three person final, as planned, with a five person quarter final, as planned, could have avoided all of this. But that would have taken decision making powers and forward planning).

I am calling Ofcom to COMPLAIN! What is that number again? I AM COMPLAINING!