X FACTOR - It's the semi final- and hurrah!- they are singing CHRISTMAS songs!

[Raahh]

because they didn't last year, or the year before. And for once, I think Pugsy has got totally the right song (am biased because it's my favourite, and i think it will suit him). His second song, however, I am less happy with.

Here are the songs-

Andrea Faustini
O Holy Night by Mariah Carey
Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus

Lauren Platt
Stay Another Day by East 17/Girls Aloud
Story Of My Life by One Direction

Ben Haenow
Please Come Home For Christmas by The Eagles
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

Fleur East
All I Want For Christmas by Mariah Carey
Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson

'Stay another day' for lamenting Lozza is inspired- dirgy enough to slow it down to snail's pace, and lots of puffa jackets, 80's fashions for the dancers/ choir.

I'm not sure about Ben's at all- but at least they haven't attributed 'Hallelujah ' to Burke.com. I like the Eagles- but there are so many great Christmas songs to choose from...

Fleur has Mariah- not really her style. And the Mark Ronson track is very new, so the audience might not know it. It is ok, though.

Ohh it's getting exciting. wonder what Louis will be saying, now he doens't have an act, and doesn't care?

See y'all later.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

She really should go back on the cruise ships really. I can't see how she can have any other career in music.

It's a right singalong this one innit

It's from ghost the musical. Originally sang by cassie levy!

Original much better

Well- that was boring.

"Glittery cleaning tabard" ROFL

Fucking hell. I almost died of boredom then.

The dress is awful

She lost all that weight last year and is now bigger than when she first auditioned. I'd be gutted!

We haven't missed the power ballads this year, dermot. Pugsy's been doing the screwbo classics all series, just not in illusion shape wear.

Hmmm...Sam's been told to back Fleur too eh. Obeying Cowell the puppet master

So idina and Mickey Bubbles? I do hope so. I have missed his ways.

Raah, what happened with Beyoncé then?

Well, I hope the SamBay album isn't in my stocking.

i still chuckle when I think of her child being called Miley Bailey.

Si is a modern day gestapo, you will back my acts!

she's re-releasing the same fucking album, with a couple of extra songs she performed on xfactor. Wtf?

There's a SuBo CD for sale on our Fb selling site, it says "Brand New, bought by mistake"

tbf, didn't she have a baby inbetween? That'll pile it on the best of us

BOF- it turned out her big 'support' slot was one performance- in Birmingham or manchester I think- so not the States, as it seemed. And she didn't get to meet her before or after. She was probably first of 6 support acts, at 2 in the afternoon when they were doing a sound check

Did you all read that Guardian article about Steve Brookstein? The bit about Sinitta and someone else Simon pimps being commanded to grope him? Urgh.

Had a baby, needs the money maybe? Public duped again. Not that it will sell any. Poor Sam.

The only way to know how old Gerard Butler is, is to cut him in half and count the rings

Fairy- i have actually just snorted cider up my nose off the wagon

Raah, so exactly what we said it would be then? Jolly good

It's always cruel when the public vote for people like sam to win xfactor. It gives them a false sense that they'll have a career in music. However, the people voting and the people who buy music seem to be mutually exclusive groups.

BOF- yes!

We know what we're talking about.