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They used to release the exact voting figures (including number of votes) until quite recently, certainly in the years since Strictly stopped revealing 2nd or 3rd in order not to hurt anyones feelings, an argument that didn't apply to telling someone they finished 10th of 10 in SPOTY with just a couple of thousand votes.


Is that the same set they've used since being based in Salford for the last few years - looks absolutely tiny. Presumably it was in the same studio as the telethons where the set usually looks probably far bigger than it actually is.

2017 was the last year the voting figures were released.

As I said, that year Jonnie Peacock pipped Anthony Joshua for third by just 18 votes. One *does* wonder how much this influenced the decision to stop releasing the figures (even though, of course, the official reason was to bring SPOTY in line with Strictly)...