X Factor (UK) 2014

Fleur doing Uptown Funk was probably my favourite performance on the show since Ella doing Believe. Sadly I still think Ben is going to take this.

conclusive proof that "Wrecking Ball" is 10x the song "Hallelujah" is anyway

The staging for Andrea's 'Wrecking Ball' was the best bit of set design since the 'Big Brother is watching you' backdrop behind one of Chris Baloney's performances in 2012.

"TWO LIVES LEFT...."

Ben through?
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Shit is on.

And by 'shit', I mean 'a shit load of filler'.

have a feeling Andrea will go tonight :(

if Haenow tells us how normal he is once more i'm putting the TV thru

I liked the sign the guy in the crowd was holding that read 'Ben Haenow to win' that looked like the letters had been sculpted out of faeces.

Fuck-awful Christmas jumper ahoy.
I can see that Andrea's going to have a TV career like Jeremy from Airport.

He does knock it out of the park though. Ben might as well go home now.

Louis says "you're a star" to just about everyone, but with Fleur it's really justified.

Pairing Ben with Ed Sheeran for the duet was a bad idea, because Ben just sounds like a crap Ed Sheeran by comparison now.

guessed it wd be Haenow and Sheeran, reckon Andrea will get Sam Smith, can't remember who the other guest is?

Fleur's singing with Labrinth.

Ella Henderson = i feel cheated

Fleur's duet with Labrinth didn't quite mesh. I wonder how much time the contestants get to actually rehearse with the their duet partners?

fuck you GBP

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Fucks sake, have the GBP got cloth ears?

nah i knew it was coming, cloth-eared vanilla ordinary bloke sob-story bullshit bullshit wanker voters

ach well at least Fleur will deservedly crush him tomorrow

If for some reason she doesn't, Simon's money is on her anyway. Ben's heading for Brookstein-esque obscurity and he hasn't even criticised anything Cowell's done.

Also I won't sleep tonight knowing that even now there are people writing slashfic involving Stevi, that rocket, and Chico...

Still have a horrible feeling Ben is going to win this.

Two hours of padding... GO!

xp FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

if ben wins i'm never watching again

This last couple of hours it's just become more and more obvious he was going to win. Good luck trying to make this guy anymore successful than Matt Cardle.

At least Ben isn't an egotistical twit like Cardle. That's one thing in his favour, like Leona, the XF process didn't really change him much as a person.

Voting figures are out. Ben was winning it from week four onwards.

One thing that bugs me more than anything on x-factor is when they sing songs that they have not understood.

I don't know if Fleur fell into that trap, and am sure it made no difference anyway, but when she added the "I want to live with you.. And you and you and you", umm this is not a song about universal love its about living with one person.

Anyway, better Ben gets the "Winners song" that fits him, now Fleur can skip it and do stuff that actually suits her. You know Alexandra Burke never much liked "Hallelujah" and dropped it Snapfish?

The winners song really seemed like it was picked for him and definitely not her. I always think the most misguided winners song was Little Mix getting Cannonball. Such an awful choice for them.

That was disappointing.

Increasingly clear watching Sunday's show what was going to happen - winner's single chosen for Ben, & I think Fleur was a bit hamstrung by having to repeat uptown funk - it was only a week ago, the surprise factor has gone, but what else could she do?

But yeah, the voting figures say a lot - clearly the producers knew what was coming and that Fleur was just *not* going to win - but then she didn't need to. There's not much in 1st and 2nd place if Syco are on your side, and the signs seem good for her. I hope she has a great career. And while I never want to hear Haenow singing again, I hope he enjoys a respectable living in entertainment after this, since he seems a decent person.

Well, Fleur's first performance of it got a big reaction, it seemed a good idea to do it again as a few people might have been prompted to see it for that reason.

The "Winners Song" always seems to be a dead albatross anyway, a song that would have suited Fleur definitely would not have worked for Ben, and they seem to have a stockpile of 'that sort of song' signed to the 'right' publisher.