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With the final due to kick off in a matter of hours and following an alleged leak in the votes from the Daily Star suggesting Frankie has been topping the vote in recent weeks, the bookies have reassessed the book again and Frankie is now favourite to lift the glitter ball.
Current Odds (correct at time of posting) from SkyBet
Frankie – 10/11
Caroline – 11/8
Simon – 10/1
Mark – 14/1
Time for the final of a 4 part series in advance of the live final where I take a look at each of the four finalists and their performance so far in Strictly. In this part, it’s the turn of Mark Wright.
Best Dance
Mark’s best performance was back in week 8 at Blackpool in which he scored 36 points (9,9,9,9) for his Charleston
Worst Dance
Mark’s worst scoring dance was all the way back in week one where he scored 24 points (5,7,6,6) for this Cha Cha Cha
Average Score
For the final time lets ignore stupid elements such as the waltzathon and Donny Osmond. Mark has scored a total of 406 points across 13 dances making for an average of 31.2, the lowest of the four finalists.
Number Of Times In The Dance Off
Mark has survived 3 dance offs, a feat matched by fellow finalist Simon Webbe.
The first was in Week 4 following a Quickstep (7,7,7,8). Mark was unanimously saved over Tim Wonnacott
Mark’s next dance off came in week 10 following his Salsa (7,8,9,8). This time dancing off against Sunetra Saker, Mark was again unanimously saved by the judges.
Mark’s 3rd and final dance off was in last week’s Semi Final after his Viennese Waltz (8,8,9,8) and Rumba (9,8,8,8). Opting to re-perform the Rumba Mark survived the dance off against Jake Wood by the skin of his teeth after Len’s casting vote saved Mark.
Odds of Winning
Mark is a 14-1 outsider with SkyBet at the time of writing this post. Having been in the dance off 3 times it is highly unlikely, but not completely outside of the realms of possibility, that Mark will muster enough public support to win the competition and in all likeliness he will be first to be eliminated at the start of the second live show.
The poll on this site has just 18% thinking he should win and not one voter thinks he actually will.
That concludes this series on the four finalists. I hope you enjoyed it and enjoyed reliving some of their dances. Pop back just before the live final starts for something special for the live final!
Time for part three of a 4 part series in advance of the live final where I take a look at each of the four finalists and their performance so far in Strictly. In this part, it’s the turn of Frankie Bridge.
Best Dance
Frankie has scored 38 points on two occasions. The first time was in week 9 with her Viennese Waltz (9,9,10,10). The second time was in last weeks Semi Final with her Argentine Tango (9,9,10,10).
Worst Dance
It feels very strange to have a worst dance section here. Frankie’s lowest score was achieved on 2 occasions when she scored the abysmal score of 30. What was she thinking?
The first was all the way back in week one with her waltz (7,7,8,8) and even though this was one of her worst dances going off the scores she still topped the leaderboard that week. The second was her Charleston the following week in week 2 (7,7,8,8). That week she missed out on the top spot to Pixie Lott!
Average Score
Again ignoring pointless elements such as the waltzathon and Donny Osmond, Frankie has amassed a total of 445 points across 13 dances making for an average score per dance of 34.2. The only celebrity with a higher average score this series was Pixie Lott who was eliminated two weeks ago.
Number Of Times In The Dance Off
Frankie is the only contestant this series to have never faced the dance off, nor has her professional partner Kevin from Grimsby across his two series
Odds of Winning
Frankie is currently 13/8 second favourite with SkyBet to lift the glitterball and on paper is the person most likely to win if clear favourite Caroline Flack doesn’t win. Frankie’s public vote appears to be quite strong as she has never been in the dance off and has been lifted out of the danger zone on a couple of occasions on weeks when she has been weak but the others strong.
The poll on this site has just 12% thinking she should win and 7% thinking she will.
Tune in this afternoon for the final part on Mark Wright and during the live final tonight for something special