to think x factor is dire?

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I have had to endure some of this programme due to other family members liking it. Is it really the best tv Saturday night can offer? Why is it so popular?

Gary is uncomfortably arrogant.
Tulisa seems to intentionally act street and dumbed down.
Willy is on another planet.
Nicole is a catty diva, I cringe at her behaviour.

The contestants are manipulated and talked up, then let down when they get the boot, I feel sorry for some some are hopelessly arrogant and deserve the boot

I know I don't have to watch, but why is it so popular?surely I'm not alone in hating it?

But why do you have to endure it because other family members want to watch it - either don't allow them to - or leave the room. My DS is just not allowed to watch that sort of crap programme. I can't understand how so many people seem to watch it or equally stupid rubbish. I'm with diddl (actually I've never watched it anyway, or Strictly or anything else like that ).

PROUD TO ANNOUNCE I HAVE NOT WATCHED ONE SECOND OF IT THIS YEAR

Neither has DH or the kids. Tried to boycott it last year, but saw three or four of the last show.

It has got worse and worse each year for being a load of contrived shite.

The rot really set in for us when they started having the big audiences for even the 'very first auditions'. What a load of bollox!!! Do they really think that we believe that all of those hundreds of people queing outside each get to go on that stage in front of the star panel of judges?? When the judges don't even turn up till midday? It would take weeks.

The logic of this showed my kids that the crap acts are picked to go on stage (along with the decent ones) purely to be ridiculed. It opened their eyes to the nasty side of it all.