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"Strictly Come Dancing star Dani Harmer has declared that The X Factor is losing to its BBC rival in the ratings because it &amp;quot;feels staged&amp;quot;. The Tracy Beaker actress suggested that viewers have defected from the Simon Cowell contest to Strictly because &amp;quot;we&amp;#039;ve got brilliant people on the programme&amp;quot; and are &amp;quot;true to what we are&amp;quot;.    Speaking to Digital Spy, Harmer stated: &amp;quot;I think X Factor&amp;#039;s kind of gone in a different direction. It feels a bit more staged, whereas we&amp;#039;re true to what we are on Strictly. &amp;quot;We know that it&amp;#039;s camp and it&amp;#039;s shiny and glittery, and I think people like to watch that on a Saturday night because of all the crap that&amp;#039;s going on in the world now, recession and all that rubbish.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s nice to watch something that takes you to a different world almost. And there&amp;#039;s no kind of sob stories or anything like that, it is what it is. We&amp;#039;re just going out there and trying to dance and making idiots out of ourselves sometimes.&amp;quot;   Asked if she was upset with Strictly judge Darcey Bussell for describing her as a &amp;quot;moody teenager&amp;quot; after her dance this week, Harmer replied: &amp;quot;I kind of knew that comment was going to come because I do look like a 10-year-old, but I was really trying to be mature.  &amp;quot;Never mind, I guess Tracy Beaker just made a little bit of an appearance in my dance for a bit. But, hey, it was aggressive, passionate, maybe a little moody, but that&amp;#039;s fine, that&amp;#039;s what the dance is about.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;People either think I&amp;#039;m a lot younger than I am because of the character I played, or they seem to think I&amp;#039;m 30 because I&amp;#039;ve been on telly so long. I am 23 and I think people are slowly starting to realise that now.&amp;quot;  Harmer added that current top performer Denise Van Outen &amp;quot;deserves&amp;quot; to win Strictly Come Dancing - but that won&amp;#039;t stop her from trying to snatch the title. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m scared of everyone right now because everyone is doing such a great job,&amp;quot; she admitted. &amp;quot;Denise is amazing, she&amp;#039;s top of the leader board every week, she&amp;#039;s obviously the one to beat, I&amp;#039;d be stupid if I didn&amp;#039;t say that.  &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s so talented she deserves to be at the top anyway, so I guess we&amp;#039;ve all got to try and get Denise off that top.&amp;quot; Strictly Come Dancing continues Saturday, November 17 at 6.30pm on BBC One. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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