Last night saw one of my personal favourite parts of The X Factors: Judge’s houses. As always the four new judges jetted off to different locations around the World with their eight acts from their specific categories, to whittle them down from 32 to the final 16 for the live shows. As usual the judges were also joined by some of their famous friends to help them with the decision making. The only thing a little different this year was the fact that Louis went to Barcelona instead of travelling to Ireland!
Gary made his way to LA with the boys and was joined by Robbie Williams (who comically came out dressed in palm-tree leaves, imitating Sinetta!) After hearing all eight boys sing, and after much deliberation as well as a night’s sleep to ensure he was making the right decision, the moment had come for Gary to let the boy’s know who would be going through to the live shows and whose X Factor journey would be ending there and then. The four lucky boys to make it through were the girls-favourite Frankie Cocozza, Liverpudlian Marcus Collins, ex biscuit-factory worker Craig Colton and curly haired James Michael. Failing to make the live shows was 16 year old Luke Lucas who was shown on Saturday night’s show as messing up his performance in front of Gary and Robbie.
Tulisa and the groups headed off to Greece where they were joined by Jessie J, who at the time of filming still had her leg on a cast. This category wasn’t as straight forward as putting four acts through to the live shows, Tulisa liked to shake things up a bit. At Boot camp there were several groups put together through rejects from the boys and girls. The only original group to make it through to the live shows is ‘Two Shoes’ the two excitable and lovable girls from Essex. They will be joined by ‘The Rhythmix’ and ‘Nu Vibe’, as well as ‘The Risk’. But here is where it got complicated. In a last minute twist, Tulisa ditched Marlon and Mitchell from the original line-up of The Risk and replaced them with Charlie from ‘The Keys’. This resulted in The Risk now being made up of Andrew, Charlie, Derry and Ashley. Have you got all of that?!
Next up were the Over’s who were lucky enough to jet off to Barcelona with Louis, who was joined by Simon’s favourite: Sinetta! The luckily four to get through were controversial Kitty, down-to-earth Jonjo, the unique Johnny Robinson and crazy Goldie. However she has since pulled out of appearing in the live shows and has been replaced by the talented Sami, who in my opinion should have made it through in the first place.
Lastly we had the girls with Kelly in Miami. Her guest judge was the amazingly talented Jennifer Hudson. After all of their performances the final four were revealed to be crazy-haired Janet, soulful Sophie, rock chick Amelia and my personal favourite Misha. Possibly the biggest surprise of last night was the fact that Jade didn’t make it through, especially seeing as she made Kelly cry at her audition.
Thankfully for all of those who didn’t make it through to the live shows Dermot was on hand for big bear hugs! Oh how I long for one of those… Anyway all that’s left to say is, bring on next week and the big twist! (I’m desperately hoping for four of the rejected acts to be bought back and mentored by another judge – preferably Cheryl Cole. Fingers crossed!)
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