X-FACTOR- Yes, it IS Friday- but tonight at 9pm - it's the start of BOOTCAMP.

[Raahh]

It doesn't feel like a week since X Factor was last on, does it? ...probably because it isn't.

So, though we haven't recovered from Sunday- here is the first BOOTCAMP!

Tonight, Cheryl is choosing her final act- she has the girl's category. And no, you're right, we haven't been told that yet. It's like a whole section of the process has been mysteriously ditched.

Expect musical chairs, crying, and much wailing about making decisions.

Here's the song list

LOLA SAUNDERS
Cece Peniston – Finally

CHLOE JASMINE
Backstreet Boys – I Want it That Way

SHANAY HOLMES
Emeli Sande – Read All About It

STEPHANIE NALA
Chris Isaak – Wicked Game

ORLA KEOGH
S.O.S. Band – Just Be Good to Me

MONICA MICHAEL
Olly Murs – Troublemaker

KAYLEIGH MANNERS
The Lumineers – Ho Hey

TEN SENAH
Beyonce – Love on Top

EMILY MIDDLEMAS
Ellie Goulding- Anything Could Happen

CHLOE O’GORMAN
Whitney Houston – I didn’t know my own strength

LAUREN PLATT
Michael Jackson – Man in the Mirror

KERRIANNE COVELL
Sara Bareilles – Gravity

Sadly, Chezza has avoided being Raign's mentor. Which would have been fun.

See y'all tonight.

9pm

I'm off to buy wine, now that i have fallen off the wagon with a bump. It's all X Factor's fault...

There's so much on the tele this weekend! I shall have to watch GoggleBox on +1 tonight.

I saw a bloody spoiler this morning .

There are so many, many reasons to at Lorraine Kelly

Tonight you say?

I'll have to check the fridge for wine.

I missed last week because I was watching films with DH. But now the whole three nights a week thing seems to actually be happening.

Ooooh wine. It's definitely wine o'clock

And

DH isn't here so I get to watch the show LIVE with you guys!

Can someone make dd go to sleep please?

That would be great thanks.

Oh yay hearts. Hurrah for errant spouses everywhere!

DH is sitting at the kitchen table checking the proofs for his book and moaning about the noise from the tv, which isn't even loud. He'll be moaning more when xfactor starts.

Have to chuck the children in bed first, BBS

Dh is here, but has ro be up at 4am for work, so has gone to bed.

I have already had too much wine.

Damn you, X Factor for being on at 9!

ooh- look, I can balance wine on my head!

This is all getting a bit much, isn't it? Why on earth three days?

Evening, everyone! DH is here, I have forbidden him from speaking!

They're not going to have three days of not really live shows are they?

i miss the big reveal where the acts discover their mentors when they turn up at the airport.

Or the National express coach stop, if it's Louis.

Blimey, it's like Ancient Rome but with worse scenery.

I like how Simon had to explain the challenge...

'These people are not your friends'. Neither are the judges.

So we didn't even see the challenges. Bloody hell.

Simon's glasses. They're a joke. Right?

It's all really rushed.

The live shows is when they REALLY find out who aren't their friends. The stylists.

They have so many programmes, but they seem determined to show is so little of what they actually filmed. Instead we get long boring bits of people talking.

So basically- all the people we have already seen audition are through.

That is just rubbish.

The stylists on here presumably have no friends. They're specially bred for their evilness.