So Amelia returned, and has apparently become a firm favourite with the bookies. Why? I don't know. Her performance left me unimpressed. Although any act performing Queen songs would have had a hard time trying to impress me in any way, although admittedly Marcus pulled it off.

You have to either power through like Freddie would have, or do something different. Kitty just sang, Amelia just sang. Maybe if she'd gone up a gear at the chorus like Craig did with Paparazzi, she'd have "put it down" as Kelly Rowland would say. That's Kelly who has officially become the most annoying judge EVER on X Factor, and that's saying something after Alexandra Burke's appearance.

Anyway, Kitty's gone, but the fact that she'd got the audience chanting her name suggests to me we haven't heard the last of her. Love her or hate her (I hated her), there was no denying she had a good voice. Whilst I didn't rate her performance on Saturday, she was ten times better than Misha in the sing-off.

Janet is disgustingly bad, almost as bad as Frankie was. Once she and Little Mix have gone we might have a serious competition.

Still think it's going to come down to Craig or Marcus. Craig was my early favourite, but Marcus has got better week on week.

Amelia was the best of the bunch and could win it, but I agree it is ridiculous that she's missed five weeks of eliminators. As was making up the numbers of a made up band of failure single acts when one left.

Misha B is this years big black soul diva, and rich voice she has, but beyond that she has produced nothing special. I was surprised that in their introductory "duet" Amelia was not outsung by her.

The rest of them are mediocre at best, and the show in its present format may be killing itself off. I feel sorriest for Janet, who does actually have an interesting and different voice, but it is a voice which isn't meant to rock the building or do Metallica covers. But if they stick with the concept that what they want is someone who can scrape together enough votes in singing [iany[/i style of 30-40 year old karaoke songs to not get knocked out then someone as patently limited and pointless as Craig could even win, and then they may as well call it a draw.

Bejesus. Have people not got ears?



Actually, The Irish couldn't vote in Jedward's series due to phone competition regulations. Irish voting returned from last year. So I guess the rest of the Great British Public should take the blame for keeping them in...



>cough< Rhydian, Olly, Matt Cardle?

To be honest, despite never having won, the groups have probably enjoyed the most success. G4 went massive until they split, and JLS are the hottest X Factor property now, followed by Jedward. >s<.

Journey South and Same Difference had briefer but successful careers too, certainly longer than say, Joe.



Not even close to the best of the series. The verse started off well, it should have picked up and gone to another level for the chorus... but it didn't, it went completely flat and dull. Agreed that she shouldn't have been kicked off in week 1, but at that time Janet was still pulling the wool over people's eyes and fooling judges into thinking she could sing, Misha and Sophie gave decent performances too. One week's live performance wasn't enough to gauge a proper opinion. Likewise Jonjo unlucky to have a bad week there, and James Michael given the presence of X Factor's worst ever finalist, Frankie. 2Shoes were definitely the best of the groups, but a terrible song choice for week 1 and the amazing lipstick smear from hell didn't help their cause any. That and Tulisa didn't put them together like the rest of the groups. Oh, and the pregnancy.

Its amazing that so many people continue to be scammed in this way.

Janet is a sure fire cure for insomnia