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Blog: Oh, the injustice. A heartbroken Rory Bremner was booted off Strictly Come Dancing last night as the public voted to keep watching bane of the ballroom Nancy Dell'Olio.

The pair went head to head after attracting the lowest amount of public votes.

The 50-year-old impressionist had been accused of having 'flat feet' following his Cha cha cha with partner Erin Boag.

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While judge Alesha Dixon told the former lover of ex-England manager Sven Goran Erikson, saved by the public last week, that she was "a bit of a rag doll" in her paso doble.

But of course, Strictly is more than a dancing competition, it's about entertainment and viewers clearly love watching Anton Du Beke gamely trying to guide his unpredictable partner around the dance floor each week.

Afterwards Bremner, who has lost a stone in weight and two inches around his waist since the start of the show, admitted: "Nancy is fantastically entertaining. When she dances with Anton, it's like watching a driving lesson. She's an extraordinary force of nature and she is good at what she does."

Meanwhile ITV's ratings woes continue as BBC1's Strictly once again claimed victory over The X Factor by more than a million more viewers when the two shows overlapped for the second week running.

The X Factor saw its audience down by almost two million compared to the show in 2010.

Simon Cowell apparently has warned the judges they face the chop if viewers continue to desert in droves.

Normally the programme can expect its audience to build throughout the series but ratings have remained static with an average of 10.1 million watching Saturday's third live show with judge Gary Barlow critical of the standard of the acts.

Misha B has been one of the bookies favourites since her first X Factor audition in the summer.

But judges Tulisa Contostavlos and Louis Walsh gave hera dressing down when they accused her of bullying other contestants.

Walsh was faced with sending one of his own acts home as Kitty Brucknell and Sami Brookes fought for survival in the bottom two.

But it was Brucknell's rendition of Lady Gaga's The Edge Of Glory which triumphed over Brookes' version of Aretha Franklin hit A Natural Woman.

He told her: "Kitty, I love your work ethic but you don't connect with the public for some reason" - then kept her in.

The veteran mentor's decision was unpopular with the studio audience, as he was greeted with boos.

By Marion Brennan