Personally I strongly believe that GHT Elimination was scripted. But I've been thinking of other things too. First and foremost we all know GHT are quite popular (let's not get into a debate on that) and I felt that some of the other couples were not as well recognized (at least the real life ones) as GHT. There is no question that GHT were going to raise the TRP's of the show, but why eliminate them early then?
I agree when people say that they aren't the best and there are couples who performed better than them on the show. My point being that why didn't Ekta keep them in the show for long? I simply fail to understand the reason she staged this whole elimination early. GHT could get the maximum audience attention why not just keep in the show for a while? Why eliminate them early? Is it possible that Ekta wanted to keep her show "fair"? But what about her shows then? We all know how unrealistic those are, then why couldn't she create more drama/masala or add something more to keep GHT in the show for long?
Another possibility to me is that GHT didn't agree to stay in the show for long, which seems very likely to me. They were aware themselves that they wouldn't be very good, hence they decided to opt out much earlier. And if you look at the way they were eliminated it was quite gracefully (I can't think of a better word). My point being we all believe it was due to Gauri. And we don't blame it entirely on the dance, since we saw very little of them and Gauri's words overshadowed their dancing skills.
Please note I haven't seen the TRP's of the show in the weeks GHT were present and after they left. I tried to look for them, but couldn't find them. The purpose of this post is simply for the sake of discussion. Lets not get into a argument about this.