X Factor - strange every year the public vote for the finalists but not this year!`

[dietqueen]

it just seems so fixed dont you think they are changing the goal posts left right and centre www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1336068/X-Factor-2010-New-vote-fixing-row-rule-change-denies-public-chance-decide-finalists.html

Also strange that Dannii didn't keep Mary and send it to deadlock, almost as if Simon tells them who to keep during the ad break....

Surely Simon wouldn't do that, you don't think it is [whispers] fixed, do you?

But that would mean the whole voting has been manipulated all along, thats very norty!

Ok so rather than disproving the fix allegation by making it transparent, they have thrown the toys out of the pram?? Excellent! that'll do LOADS to disprove it!

There really can't be anyone left who actually believes that the finalists are not selected at a very early stage and everything that happens afterwards is just spin and audience manipulation. If I were the head of Ofcom I would be looking very closely at the way the whole show is set up, and how it persuades (mostly) young people to waste money on voting.

It is the public vote for the final strictly speaking though, public vote will send the final 3 through to Sunday, when they hold the mini-final on Saturday.