X Factor 2007, painful showoffs, blah blah blah

Alexandra is determined to throw ALL of her dignity away tonight, right?

And Alexandra has won. She can't form any words at this moment in time.

She is actually unwell, I think.

it's like she's NEVER SEEN A CD BEFORE and this one has her face on it and THAT'S BLOWING HER MIND

She can sing and cry at the same time, nearly! That's a talent right there.

...oh, maybe not.

Last chance for the twelve finalists to get their mugs on TV...
This is what they call "cognitive dissonance" - it looks like something big is happening, but really not much is happening.

Well hopefully I never have to hear anything about this ever again.

Cowell thanks everyone from the bottom of his wallet...

who will join me in applying to enter this yr???

There's a interview that John Peel gave in 1986 where he said "If people are any good, they're going to become public property eventually anyway, so all you can do is either accelerate or retard that process". The problem with X Factor is that it gives an enormous boost to people's careers, that most of them then can't follow through with because they've been put in a position where the expectations are much higher than what they can achieve in a reasonable amount of time. What goes up slowly comes down slowly, because a foundation is built underneath it. But this is the opposite.

Cheryl's breasts are making a break for freedom on ITV2 just now.

This was playing - silently - on every pub that had tellys this evening. I thought theat the Ewok had won at first, but a number of girls squealing later on told me the girl won it.

Shock X Factor voting patterns revealed

Sun Dec 14 12:05AM by TV Editor

Now that Alexandra has been crowned this year's X Factor champion, ITV has revealed the voting results for each week of the show - and it's a shocker.

The votes reveal that Eoghan Quigg, who finished third last night, won six out of the ten weekly live shows while Alexandra had won only one of the weekly heats before last night.

During the first four shows Eoghan had won comfortably with over 20% of all votes cast while Alexandra had trailed behind many of the other acts with less than 10%.

However, Alexandra's popularity had grown so much over the past few weeks that she triumphed in last night's final vote with a comfortable 58% of all votes cast.

Here is how the final 12 scored in each of the weekly votes...

Show 1
Eoghan Quigg 21.19%
Scott Bruton 19.48%
Laura White 16.99%
Diana Vickers 7.35%
Daniel Evans 7.21%
Alexandra Burke 7.20%
JLS 5.03%
Rachel Hylton 4.77%
Austin Drage 3.63%
Ruth Lorenzo 3.47%
Girlband 2.17%
Bad Lashes 1.51% (Deadlock)

Show 2
Eoghan Quigg 26.77%
Diana Vickers 16.24%
JLS 9.21%
Laura White 8.99%
Austin Drage 8.98%
Daniel Evans 8.23%
Alexandra Burke 7.15%
Rachel Hylton 5.01%
Scott Bruton 4.17%
Ruth Lorenzo 2.95%
Girlband 2.30% (Deadlock)

Show 3
Eoghan Quigg 20.73%
Diana Vickers 15.13%
Rachel Hylton 12.21%
JLS 10.81%
Ruth Lorenzo 8.93%
Alexandra Burke 8.83%
Laura White 7.53%
Austin Drage 6.22%
Daniel Evans 5.94%
Scott Bruton 3.67% (Judges)

Show 4
Eoghan Quigg 19.81%
JLS 17.00%
Diana Vickers 15.24%
Daniel Evans 10.83%
Ruth Lorenzo 10.25%
Alexandra Burke 8.82%
Laura White 7.38%
Austin Drage 6.86% (Judges)
Rachel Hylton 3.81%

Show 5
Eoghan Quigg 27.39%
Alexandra Burke 18.35%
Daniel Evans 13.77%
JLS 13.26%
Rachel Hylton 10.39%
Laura White 9.90% (Judges)
Ruth Lorenzo 6.94%

Show 6
Diana Vickers 31.30%
Eoghan Quigg 19.56%
Ruth Lorenzo 13.91%
Alexandra Burke 13.31%
JLS 9.91%
Daniel Evans 7.53% (Judges)
Rachel Hylton 4.48%

Show 7
Eoghan Quigg 31.79%
Diana Vickers 18.94%
Ruth Lorenzo 16.07%
Alexandra Burke 14.97%
JLS 11.75%
Rachel Hylton 6.48% (Judges)

Show 8
Alexandra Burke 24.53%
JLS 24.34%
Eoghan Quigg 19.58%
Diana Vickers 16.32%
Ruth Lorenzo 15.23% (Public)

Show 9
JLS 35.03%
Alexandra Burke 31.04%
Eoghan Quigg 21.14%
Diana Vickers 12.79% (Public)

Show 10 (Final) – At vote freeze
Alexandra Burke 44.02%
JLS 30.65%
Eoghan Quigg 25.33%

Show 10 (Final) – Final Result
Alexandra Burke 58.34%
JLS 41.66%

so glad tht little freak didn't win

too crepey

with his bubble face

http://www.lepconnie.com/pics/starwars/swi62c.jpg

interesting that Burke polled mostly midtable until the final weeks

her constant blubbing has softened me up - the Beyonce bit was awes

yeah, we were welling up at her all night

hadn't watched more than a moment of this this year but the blubbing was v OTT and seemed v v put-on and was v v v annoying and v much put me off her. having not seen the earlier stages she seems quite boring and mediocre but far and away the best of the final three and the only one that makes any kind of sense singing hallelujah too but only because the others were much more annoying and weird

her signing the fourth the fifth the minor fall the major lift was well rubbish though

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"but you don't really care for music, do you" LOL THE IRONING HAHA DO YOU SEE COWELL, DO YOU?

cannot believe that this appears nowhere on this thread:

JACK THE LAD SWING

JACK THE LAD SWING

JACK THE LAD SWING

JACK THE LAD SWING

so i didn't watch a single minute of this season, but i'm watching some clips on youtube and i rather like diana's voice. i can see how she could be irritating if you had to see her week after week, i guess. and from what i heard the fact that "hallelujah" was the coronation song must have made people resent her as being the chosen one?

anyway, well done, wish i had watched this season instead of last season.

I was pleased to see the right singer winning.

The British public had a gradual onset attack of common sense and realised that Cabbage Patch Choirboy wasn't going to get anywhere.

It was interesting looking through his previous clips and he would actually have been better sticking to just singing songs rather than being shoehorned into all this High School Musical nonsense.

But Alexandra was the right choice - much more personality and real talent than Leona, and unlike Leona's catastrophic misreading of Snow Patrol she was able to grasp and inhabit "Hallelujah"; unlike JLS, she seemed to be actually listening to and interpreting what she was singing.

It will be nice that Laughing Lenny finally gets a number one single in the UK.

Beyonce's "Boy" - totally dynamic and brilliant, sung through the fourth wall as though it were her last testament.

She just keeps getting better and better.

Saw bits (was having a company do), but saw that O-en's "I wish it could be" was just "I have no idea what to actually do with him, please don't make him win" Simon. He looked visibly relieved on the third place exit.

Saw bits of the duet, Alexandras looked the only 'meeting of peers/equals' as opposed to "arr sing along with us lads", but as I say, saw only bits so maybe that's not right.

Yeah, the only winner that makes sense. JLS will do OK, posibly. O-en straight to panto.

hey I agree with everything Marcello said!

beyonce and alexandra facing each other and hollering "MORE THAN!" "MORE THAN!" was incredible. beyonce, generally, was incredible.

i quite liked alexandra's 'hallelujah', extraneous melismania and all, though the overegged arrangement drowned it by the end. really weird seeing it positioned as a xmas hymn thing.

But Alexandra was the right choice - much more personality and real talent than Leona, and unlike Leona's catastrophic misreading of Snow Patrol she was able to grasp and inhabit "Hallelujah"

yeah i'm still v much pro-leona but to date she has ONE good song - a modern-day classic of course, but still just the one. though to be fair i don't think anyone could have made 'run' compelling, it's such a poorly crafted piece of sludge.

hoping alexandra is given good material - don't think she'll be able to carry subpar songs - and that rachel and ruth are picked up by people who know what to do with them. hope i never have to see eoghan's face again.

you will, every time you peel a potato...

hahah!

Unfortunately the Credit Crunch has probably put paid to our ever hearing of any of the other finalists again, except maybe JLS.

The thing about Leona's "Run" - apart from it being a daft idea to begin with - is that she doesn't even bother with the last two verses which actually contain the tag to the song (if you can call it that; it's such a sloppily written song that I'm doing it undue justice) so it just becomes bland sub-"You'll Never Walk Alone"/Frog Chorus "togetherness."

beyonce and alexandra facing each other and hollering "MORE THAN!" "MORE THAN!" was incredible.

i can't stop watching this one youtube, then when that part comes i skip right back to see it again.

it's absolutely amazing the way beyonce slinks on stage and puts her arm around alexandra then casually lifts the mike to BELT out her first line. the whole performance is my TV highlight of the year. alex has had virtually no voice training and, although she's no beyonce, obviously, she holds her own easily. she's going to be great with the right songs and the right coaching.

i think Lewis and Burke should hook up for Brandy/Monica style shock and awe at some point

it's absolutely amazing the way beyonce slinks on stage and puts her arm around alexandra then casually lifts the mike to BELT out her first line

so OTM

also beyonce's "SING IT, GIRL!" <3

<3