Just putting Nicole Cook to one side for a moment....
We always watch this programme as we care about all sport, and yet even when there is a worthy winner (Redgrave, Flintoff etc) the end feeling is one of let-down, of anti-climax, of not having done the efforts and achievements justice.
And of course it wasn't just NC who got a poor deal on the night; Andy Murray got even less coverage and following Monty Panasaar's interview there were a whole 30s left to vote.
There were then some pretty bizzare winners among lots of categories; St Helens over the Rider Cup team, Theo Walcott.... I suppose it says much about those that vote.
Apparently it was won with about 200,000 votes. Now if we believe the story that 1,000,000 plus fans lined the route of the Tour En Angleterre in 1994 then there are plenty enough bikies who care about the sport. If we believe that a cycling winner of this sort of thing would be good for the sport then surely we could somehow "get the voters out".
But don't look at me I never vote in these things