I've been thinking about the whole Angie swing vote since it happened, trying to work out exactly why she cast it and I've been wondering - do you think she may have felt oddly bullied into giving it?
She said she cast it because of Lorette not being able to make a million in the policeforce and the whole thing of Grant not trusting her the way she wanted him to but do you think she may have done it out of fear of an angry moral majority type response to the result if she hadn't?
After the Finale I was chatting to Steyn du Toit - who's a DJ at Stellenbosch University - and he said he wondered whether she didn't feel that voting for Lorette would ensure that she didn't end up being seen negatively after the battle of morals versus gameplay she'd been involved in.
Look at how horrible that caller was to her on the Go Extra insert - she might have anticipated this sort of thing could happen and by switching sides she protected herself from harsh critics. Perhaps she thought popular opinion would see her siding with Grant as a more "heartless" decision than her siding with Lorette because of assumptions that he'd feel less about it type thing?
If you think about it - because Grant's strategy didn't involve arguing for particular morals he never had any sort of emotional ammunition or armour. It was a sense I got from the live audience on the night - like the assumption that because he wasn't emotional in his strategy it wouldn't hit him as hard if the final vote wasn't for him.
If it had been the other way round and he'd won, I reckon there would have been loads of viewers who would have very vocally felt for Lorette that she didn't win - not just fans but generally 'cos of her being a chick and defeating Hein and her being an open book.
I dunno - do you think all this could have been a factor in Angie's decision? That she was concerned she'd be judged as being hard-hearted if she didn't cast the vote the way she did?
Of course it could all be much simpler and she did it to shake things up a final time.
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