Che Chesterman voted out of X Factor

Asked by host Caroline Flack whether he had enjoyed the experience, Che replied: “It was fantastic, this journey has gone so quick”.

Louisa’s name was followed by Reggie N Bollie, leaving Che in the loser’s seat.

Ché belted out In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins and Mark Ronson & Amy Winehouse’s classic Valerie.

However Cheryl Fernandez-Versini called his vocals “god-given”. Finally Louisa rounded off the first section of the show by belting out R Kelly’s I Believe I Can Fly.

Opening their account with a punchy rendition of Kris Kross’ Jump before raising the roof off Wembley Arena with a mashup of Spice Girls’ Spice Up Your Life and Outhere Brothers’ Boom, Boom, Boom.

The finalists then teamed up with a special guest for the traditional final show duets.

But their most memorable moment arrived in the shape of their all star collaboration with not just one but two performers in the shape of Fuse ODG and Craig David.

The competition was keen to showcase its past successes with last year’s victor Ben Haenow uniting with 2006 victor Leona Lewis for a duet of his new release Slamming Doors and her hit Run.

This series of the singing competition has been plagued with “technical difficulties” – including Olly Murs announcing the contestant exiting earlier than he should have and Rita Ora forgetting one of her contestants – with the final being no different.

Louisa remains the odds-on favourite to win tonight and has been the bookies favourite way back in August since her very first audition.

The X Factor pulled out all the stops to make last night’s show was bigger and better than ever.