sorry X factor!!

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watched X factor since the start, reason being at home with kids, but this year is so nasty and cruel. totally disgusted. I know aibu to watch this crap but sad its sunk so low.

Was just about to start a thread saying the same.

DH and I were just saying the same thing. The way they are doing it this year is just too much for the people taking part. Some of them are only 16 - 17 years old FFS

The whole of TV culture has sunk to this (possibly a wild generalisation, but ...) Our children are learning that it's OK to say what you like to who you like as long as they "deserve" it because of their lack of talent. It's institutionalised bitching and bullying

It's one thing to throw one of the contestants out in a boot camp, but in front of thousands, it's nasty, I agree. The one really upset then has to walk across and congratulate the winner, completely gutted. I let my girls stay up for this and I wish I hadn't now.

It's edited to look more cruel than it is....the contestants know the score!

16/17/18 year olds aren't made of glass!

exactly, I think ITV need to be very careful they don't want the first Xfactor suecide. or maybe they do.

horrible nasty

But the children watching don't know that HeySoulSister

I stopped watching it when I found out that the awful repeat contestants at the first stage are talked into auditioning and humiliating themselves again.

It's so pointless. It adds nothing if people can be moved off. It's not enjoyable to watch. It's not nice.

Mumsy totally agree, my dds 14,13 are very quiet. they have watched this show for years but this seems like bullying to me. oldest just gone to her room, this was our family Tv night .. sad

Bullying??

Westie, forgive me for being naive but did they really rope in the previous rejects only to reject them again for the sake of sensational tv rather than the people cos they really wanted too? If so that's truly awful

YAsoNBU

It does seem to have reached new heights of cruelty this year. It makes me uncomfortable that we are expected to find this enjoyable

I think it is all set up to be cruel for effect. The judges know who they want and so the contestants are put in a certain order so that there is always going to be someone sent of a stool. And how some of them do get through is beyond me.

...sorry,meant rather than old contestants applying themselves cos they wanted too.

jamie children?? It's not a children's show!

I was about to start a thread saying thesame thing! So cruel this year... These aren't people who have signed up for Big Brother.

Watching it made me very uncomfortable.

HeySoul disagree it is Saturday night TV which should be enjoyed with children.

Yep me and DH agreed, lots of head messing going on there just for ratings. I don't see the point.

Only came back to watch because Shazza is back. I had to stop watching when kitty was on as DH thought I was going to smash the T.V up!

I have always loved x-factor but tonight's show has depressed the hell out of me. Too, too, too cruel.

Those poor girls faces sitting on the chairs thinking they were going to be the one's ejected. Surely this is a step too far?.

It's just finished at 9.50... How old are your children? It's past the 'watershed'

jellyfl00d I can't swear to it, but I did read an article where they were talking about a lady with learning difficulties who had appeared several times. The article said that producers rang her up each time and talked her into trying again, telling her that she really stood a good chance this time. It was horrible.

HeySoul

The only people I know who talk about it and enjoy it are children 9I work in a school). Not my children

Hey soul my younger kids are 14 and 13, it's Saturday night.

I watched morcombe and wise with my parents till after 9!! it was nice.

Saturday night should be family night TV? why not?

early teens don't to to bed at 7 but too young for the pubs!!

just felt this old show that our lads watched( now grown up) has become gratuitously cruel and nasty.