The X Factor

Who do we think is going to get the chop this week? My money's on Alisha or Leon.

Going by the song choices I posted at the bottom of page 54 for those who want to see, my money is on Niki, Alisha or Hope being in the bottom 2. I think Leon will get past the judges vote stage and will fall out of the competition when it gets to the stages of purely public vote.

I think Nikki too - a terrible song choice. They tried sexing her up when they give her "All That jazz" and it was terrible. I can't see this working.

IMO Niki was a dead cert to win until they killed her off with All That Jazz. I think she pulled it back a bit last week but her fan base are dropping like flies and they will continue to drop after Saturday. I hope she goes back to the old Niki and she makes the final, because I really like Niki and want her to win but Louis Walsh is ruining her.

If you're basing it purely on songs then Same Difference could be in a mess as their song is quite obscure in comparison to all of the others.

Nikki is stuck between a rock and a hard place - if she hadn't have done All That Jazz, we'd be bored of ballads week-in-week-out, however because All That Jazz got such a slating from Simon (which, let's face it, is the main reason why people are down on it now), everyone's now saying she shouldn't have done it.

The idea of doing something different to a ballad is a good one (in fact given that it's disco week, the choice was kind of removed) - but for her sake let's hope she does a decent job of it otherwise she could be out.

So Dannii & Sharon actually do get on, but its actually Louis & Dannii that don't get on

I never seen that one coming ... Louis said it on Katie and Peter, he basically said he doesn't have much respect for Dannii because she isn't the best singer in the world. Not in those words but something to that effect.

Really impressed so far, I didn't think Niki OR Leon would pull off the disco but they really have, they've both done really well, I thought I detected Leon forgetting a line but he recovered well and sounded great, he really looked like he was enjoying himself tonight, well done to both of them! Looking forward to Same Difference this week! Think Beverley may be off tonight, although she may surprise also!

Awful show tonight and proof again the themes have killed the series.

Most obvious with Rhydian who finally marked his territory last week but had no choice but to perform something awful this week. As Danni just said, there are no operatic disco songs!

Leon was awful - his voice just isn't strong enough for disco. Simon knows it and is playing the reverse psychology voting game.

Niki and Beverley were brilliant as is Rhydian but Dannii's song choices are terrible.

Louis is deinfately favouring Beverely over Niki now - she's been forgotten after a strong start.


The running order seems to pretty much be the same now each week too - Leon and Niki are always on before Rhydian and Beverely respectively.

Gutted Alisha has gone - she was one of the better acts tonight. Why are Same Difference even still there

Indeed, couldn't have agreed more, Same Difference were awful and have been awful, they have as much pop talent and the same amount of Cheese factor as Chico.

Sharon summed them up best by saying it would be something Michael Jackson would have dreamed up, too right indeed Mrs O.