Monday, September 27, 2010

The X Factor

The X Factor


The new groups – the x factor bootcamp – itv.com/xfactor

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:59 PM PDT

















The X Factor 2010: In a shock twist, the judges decide at the last minute to collect together some of the surprise rejections from the girls and boys categories for some interesting news.. See more at itv.com


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the x factor liam payne’s bootcamp challenge – itv.com/xfactor

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:37 PM PDT

















The X Factor 2010: Liam's been through this all before, having made it to the judges' houses stage in 2008. He knows it's important to make a lasting impression, especially at this critical time. Having stunned the judges and wowed the audience at his audition, surely Liam's got it made? See more at itv.com


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the x factor matt cardle’s bootcamp challenge (Full Version) – itv.com/xfactor

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:27 PM PDT

















The X Factor 2010: 27-year-old Matt has decided to take a risk with his final performance at bootcamp, opting for a girls song! Having checked with the others, he's the only one doing it, so could this be the end of the road for him, or his chance to shine? See more at itv.com


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dannii minogue won’t let cheryl cole win an x factor hat trick

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:19 PM PDT

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Dannii Minogue says she will be 'devastated' if rival judge Cheryl Cole maintains her perfect record and wins The X Factor for a third year in a row.

The Australian pop star said that she would 'band together' with fellow judges Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh if an act mentored by the Girls Aloud singer seemed likely to scoop the top prize of a £1million recording deal.

Minogue's disclosure of her rivalry with Cole follows her revelation last week that she had clashed with former X Factor judge Sharon Osbourne.

In her autobiography, serialised in The Mail on Sunday, Dannii says Osbourne screamed abuse at her in her dressing room, reducing her to tears just minutes before she was due on stage.

Speaking yesterday about feuding between the judges, the 38-year-old said: 'It's such a big part of the show whether you like it or not. We are fiercely competitive and I'm sure sparks will be flying again this year, but I try to focus on the contestants.'

She said she was confident one of her acts will win the ITV show and believes the other judges should be 'nervous' of her. Dannii also admitted that she was worried about her place on the panel and promised to quit if she felt she was not up to the job.

the x factor boot camp recruits more than 11m

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:29 PM PDT

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First boot camp show attracts 2.5 million more viewers than equivalent episode last year and demolishes BBC opposition

The X Factor's first boot camp episode of 2010 attracted more than 11 million viewers, helping ITV1 to a strong peak-time performance on Saturday, 25 September.

Wembley Arena was the venue for the boot camp, which attracted an average of 11.283 million viewers and a 46.4% share across ITV1 and ITV1 HD from 7.30pm. ITV1 HD's share of this audience was 590,000.

The X Factor was 2.5 million up on the average audience for the first boot camp episode of the 2009 series.

BBC1's Saturday lineup was left trailing in The X Factor's wake: Merlin (7pm: 5.228 million/23.7%), The National Lottery: In It to Win It (7.45pm: 3.763 million/15.6%) and Casualty (8.35pm: 4.652 million/19.3%).

The X Factor also helped boosted the audience for the following ITV1/ITV1 HD show, Simply Red: for the Last Time (9pm: 5.04 million/22.6%).
Five main terrestrial analogue networks

BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4, Channel 5 (available in all UK homes with TV, except Channel 5, which reaches about 95%)

BBC1

9.25pm: Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow - 4.504 million/20.8%, BBC HD 89,000/0.4%

BBC2

4.30pm: Labour Leadership Announcement - 699,000/5.7%

ITV1/ITV1 HD

6.45pm: All Star Family Fortunes - 5.032 million/24.3%

Channel 4

8pm: Stephen Hawking's Universe - 816,000/3.3%, C4+1 156,000/0.7%

Channel 5

9pm: CSI (rpt) - 848,000/3.8%
Freeview/digital terrestrial TV free-to-air networks

Available in 23.4m UK homes – 91.4% of total – as of 31/12/09. Source: Ofcom digital progress report, Q4 2009

ITV2

9pm: The Xtra Factor - 909,000/4.1%
All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, HD, +1 or other – unless otherwise stated

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the x factor gamu nhengu’s bootcamp challenge – itv.com/xfactor

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:15 PM PDT

















The X Factor 2010: Remembered for her version of Walking on Sunshine in her audition, Gamu certainly knows how to make a song her own. Just wanting to give her mum something back - this final bootcamp performance means a lot to her. Will it be enough to persuade the judges to take her to the next round? Louis might have been swayed... See more at itv.com


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Barnett: the x factor makes me feel old

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:09 PM PDT

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The TV talent show's 'golden oldies' category is for the over-28s

Is 28 the new 65? Quite possibly, according to The X Factor, which for the current series has increased its lower age limit for older solo artists from 25 to 28 – meaning that any pop hopeful born, like me, in 1982, is now basically considered a "golden oldie". You just needed to take one look at judge Louis Walsh's face – ashen, grimacing, devoid of hope – when he was told in Sunday's episode that he would be mentoring the over-28 group (in which two 29-year-olds, John and Elesha, will do battle with a 30-year-old Dutchman, a 54-year-old Brazilian opera-lover, and a 41-year-old Tina Turner obsessive from Lanarkshire) to know that we're now basically considered over the hill.

So why set the bar at 28? Separating anyone aged 25 or more from the younger, fresher-faced "boys" and "girls" was ridiculous enough (as noted by Pussycat Doll and stand-in judge Nicole Scherzinger, who, according to rumour, urged the age change for this series because there was too much talent in the older group).

Twenty-five-year-olds could take the implied insult, however; they know they're not past it – they're still half a decade off 30. But for us 28-year-olds, still clinging vainly to our mid-20s, the decision to lump us in with anyone aged from here to late middle-age sticks in the throat.

I turned 28 in July, and I thought I'd done pretty well to get here. Twenty-seven is the dangerous age, as a roll-call of musicians who died tragically at 27 proves: Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones . . . The list goes on, and has even given rise to the term "The 27 Club", as noted by Cobain's mother, Wendy O'Connor: "I told him not to join that stupid club." I'd successfully avoided joining that club – and auspiciously, two weeks after my birthday came a survey (sponsored by "home hair-colour brand Clairol Perfect 10", and therefore probably rubbish, but encouraging all the same), suggesting that women aged 28 are having the best sex, and generally feel happiest about their lives.

Yet, watching The X Factor only to hear a 26-year-old wailing about how this is her last ever chance for stardom, is enough to make me feel as though I should prepare to draw my pension. When of course the truth is that those of us who are 28 now will probably be 94 before we can retire. So take heed, Cowell, Walsh et al – you might think we're past it, but there's a whole lot of life in us 28-year-olds yet.

Laura Barnett

cocaine chloe is kicked off the x factor

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:32 PM PDT

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Failed X Factor contestant Chloe Mafia burst into tears on This Morning today as she insisted she was a 'good mother'.

The 19-year-old was seen losing her place on the talent show yesterday, the same day she was exposed for allegeldy taking cocaine before charging £450 for a two hours of sex.

Speaking to Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby today, the single mother admitted she had been 'stupid' to mess up her chance on the X Factor, but insisted she was a good mother to 21-month-old Destiny.

She insisted: 'I am the best mum ever. I make sure she eats five fruit and veg every day, sometimes more. My daughter is the most best (sic) looked after person in the world.'

Despite her claims to parenthood proficiency, however, Mafia was pictured after the show being driven off in a car with her daughter sat on her lap rather than in a child seat.

Destiny wasn't wearing a seatbelt and Chloe barely had a grip on her daughter as she chatted on her mobile phone.


the x factor: dannii minogue hits back in bitter war of words with team osbourne

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:22 PM PDT

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She will make her hotly anticipated comeback to our screens this weekend.

But with just days to go before she picks her finalists for the X Factor, judge Dannii Minogue has hit back at Kelly Osbourne's jibes.

Kelly, 25, lashed out after new mother Dannii, 38, revealed all about her feud with Sharon Osborne during her time on the ITV talent hit in her autobiography.

This included the time Sharon, 57, stormed into her dressing room and launched a tirade of abuse at her with just minutes to go before they went on air.

Kelly defended her mother's honour by launching a furious Twitter tirade at Dannii, calling her the 'devil' and a 'poor middle-aged victim' – and accused of her writing 'a book of lies.'

But Dannii tells X magazine: 'I just put what happened in the book. I don't want to get into the back and forth of this. I wasn't really upset or angry, I just laughed. I know what's true.

'She made strong accusations, but I'm not a liar – if she's calling me a liar, she's calling everyone who was there a liar. The producers and everyone. There were a lotof witnesses.

'I don't want to get into some kind of slanging match with anyone. You can't change anyone's opinion of you. If someone doesn't like me, I've always just stayed out of their way.'




the x factor 2010: It’s tears as cher, katie and gamu go through to judges’ houses

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:05 PM PDT

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It was an emotional episode of The X Factor tonight as the judges decided who they would be taking through as the final 32 acts on the show.

There were tears, tears and more tears as the hopefuls waited to find out if they had what it takes to go through to the final stage, or if they would be going home.

And while favourites Gamu Nhengu, Cher Lloyd, Katie Waissel, Aiden Grimshaw, Matt Cardle and Mary Byrne were all chosen to progress, it seemed as though it was the end of the road for favourite boys Liam Payne and Harry Style.

However, Simon Cowell had a trick up his sleeve.

First up on the second boot camp episode was Madonna wannabe Katie, who sang Adele's Make You Feel My Love.

Before taking to the stage, Katie said: 'I love my job but it has always been such a huge goal of mine to be a star. Today I'm feeling super charged. It's terrifying but it's incredible.'

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