For the first time in X Factor history, the acts judged to have performed best at Judges’ Houses were announced live.
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On Sunday, 8.7 million watched the results show for the BBC ballroom extravaganza as celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott became the fourth celebrity to be voted out.
One Direction star Louis Tomlinson, who had headed out to the South of France to assist Cowell as a guest judge, felt she was a touch “cabaret”.
This weekend he and fellow judges, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw said goodbye to half of their acts.
Last, but by no means least, Rita chose her three girls, deciding Kiera Weathers, Lauren Murray and Louisa Johnson are worthy of a place in Live Shows.
After putting Mason Noise through (talk about a controversial decision), the radio host revealed that his second choice was Che Chesterman.
Others switched to the Beeb’s Strictly Come Dancing instead, with the twinkle-toed show winning in the ratings war and thrashing the singing contest by 9.3million vs. 6.3m viewers.
But Simon is pleased the new format allowed him to avoid any chances of regretting his decisions ahead of the live shows.
“We’ve got a few different projects going on at the moment, one of which is we’re trying to put a girl band together”, he said on X Factor’s Xtra Preview. “We now need to get back in the studio and continue writing but we fully intend to get back in front of our incredible fans as soon as we can”.
So it’s official; Simon Cowell is London’s favourite X-Factor judge.
“I was 14 when I had my first relationship with a guy”, Rita wrote in her book (in an excerpt from The Sun).
The singer clearly has something that Cowell likes though as he survived the Six Chair Challenge grilling and the Judges’ Houses drama.
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However, the two shows are set to coincide over the coming weeks.
