Briefly taking X Factor seriously for a second...

Who in the name of holy hell is voting for Frankie and/or Janet? They are both horrendous. It's bad enough they got to the live finals. Wagner was ten times better than either of them. Even CHICO was better.

To be fair to Janet she can sing certain songs very well with her cute Irish twang.

Frankie is just being voted for by the 7-17 year old girls who fancy him. It's safe to write the whole series off, there is no real talent on it.

Janet is and will be an excellent singer of the limited range of songs which suit her quirky vocal style. As well as that individual style, she also has the sort of Irish ingenue image which they will use to flog folksy compilations. Frankie OTOH genuinely doesn't have any redeeming feature that I can see, he can't sing a note and already looks like a 40-year-old accountant being attacked about the head by a Maine Coon.

The essential answer is that in pop, the packaging is probably at least twice as important as the product, and before they grow out of it and say "what was I thinking", Frankie has the support of enough inbetweenies, and presumably the Cats Defence League, to stay in the comp in the short term.

Still, nobody will beat the inimitable Johnny

NO SHE CAN'T. She can't sing in tune. If she was 6 years old, yes, maybe it would be "cute", but still you'd only tell her she's "good" because she'd be "6", and telling a six year old, "Actually, you know what, you're absolute crud, give it up" is, for some reason, considered socially unacceptable.

I wonder if these girls would still fancy Frankie after he'd infected them with some kind of unpleasant STD? If a woman had taken Amelia Lily into an underground car-park, followed by another unknown blonde less than 2 hours later for "hanky-panky", she'd be branded a slut/slag/slapper/something else beginning with "sl".

This series is a bit of a write-off though. As an avid fan year on year, I'm finding myself increasingly thinking "meh".

Mark this moment... we actually agree on something. Blimey.



Maybe. They're called "Nursery Rhymes".



ROFLMAO. No, really, that's what I'm doing. I'll prove it later.

Disappointed HaBABEis went on Sunday, but to be honest she's been poor for the live shows.

I thought Kitteh was the best surprisingly. Although she does have a tendency to shout rather than sing - can't deny there's never a dull moment when she's on stage and I'm actually warming to her in some of the pre-performance video diary things.

What is it with her and her bum cheeks?
''Look half my ass is hanging out folks ... I have the sagging ass of a seventy year old.''

For anyone who cares, it seems that little scrote Frankie Coconuts has been kicked off the show.

From what I saw of him he'll struggle to get anywhere with such a poor voice, and will probably survive for a little while on this lame rock n' roll character he's been desperately creating, before slipping back into obscurity.

Sounds like a cue for giving Johnny a reprieve to me . . . otherwise they are one week short of acts

www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/ ... o-x-factor

www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/ ... o-x-factor

guessing some sort of "sing off" between Johnny and The Risk this weekend - they will want to get the boyband back in if they can.

My guess is whichever one takes the song and makes it their own will be going back in.

Frankie is going to take some time out before continuing his music career. Firstly what 'career' and secondly take the next 50 years out and do us all a favour.

I saw a bit of it at the weekend. The programme is really scraping the barrel now They are absolutely awful, talentless dopes this year (with the possible exception of Johnny, who I understand went out). The show is ridiculous and way past its sell by date. The fomula is tired and predictible.

Translation - I am an avid fan of the show