Has the X-Factor lost its WOW factor? VOTE

SOME people are under the mistaken impression that The X Factor is a talent show. It isn’t.

If it was, the numpties, no-hopers and the downright clinically insane would never get a look in.

We wouldn’t have nutcases who can’t sing a note getting to the first audition, never mind to the boot camp and further.

But including only those with a modicum of talent wouldn’t make for interesting viewing, would it?

There would be no freaks to talk about at work on Monday morning if everyone who appeared was sort of, well, average.

So the aim is to produce a light entertainment programme with a quirky feel to it. Something that is gripping to the watching millions because they just can’t believe what they are watching.

Those talentless twins, John and Edward, are a good case in point.

How the hell did they get through reception?

They look like something from Star Trek and have as much ability as a tree stump.

But I hope they win.

Because if they do it will expose the programme for what it is...artificial and irrelevant. I just wonder whether this latest batch of finalists are helping to sign the death knell for The X Factor.

None is a patch on Alexandra Burke or Leona Lewis or even Gareth Gates.

The public are obviously having a laugh because they want to see the terrible twins making fools of themselves every week.

And let’s face it, there is now every chance they will win...and that would finally destroy the credibility of the programme.

Their off key performance of Queen’s We Will Rock You last Saturday was an absolute disgrace. Take away the lights and the dancers and they would have been even more of an embarrassment.

They would have been paid     up serving up that rubbish at     any working men’s club in the land.

But credit to the lads. They just shrug off the criticism and stumble along having the time of their lives.

You can’t blame them for still being in the competition. Good luck to them. They will be the only winners never to sell any records!

But the format of the show needs sorting out. For example, the  voting system is flawed. The Fab Four “mentors” always support their own acts no matter how bad they are.

And their choice of material for their proteges borders on the ludicrous.

The theme over the weekend  was rock yet several of the songs were anything but. And in almost every case, the boys sang girls’ songs and vice versa.

For example, we had the ridiculous sight of Lloyd Daniels give an excruciating version of Katy Perry’s I Kissed a Girl.

And the sing-off was a joke. Lloyd couldn’t manage Joe Cocker’s You Are So Beautiful because of a bad throat—in fact he even stopped momentarily midway— while poor old Rachel Adedeji was much better.

But Simon Cowell couldn’t split them and when viewers’ original phone votes were then counted, sobbing Rachel had fewest and was kicked out.

Now, if, as we are often told by the judges, a decision should be taken on THAT performance alone, the result should have been reversed, shouldn’t it?

At least host Dermot O’Leary showed a little more sensitivity and compassion by asking the lass: “Have you got any words for us?” instead of the usual: “How do you feel.”

But memo to him: For goodness sake get a suit that fits. At the moment it looks as though you borrow Norman Wisdom’s!