X-Factor: Week Three

So this is the third week of the live show. Tabby (the current bookies' favourite) started the show with his rendition of Addicted to Love, I thought it was a very good version, but possibly not his best performance on the live show. He was followed by Voices With Soul singing Bridge Over Troubled Water with just a piano for backing. I thought they were excellent, but the judges picked up on off-key notes. Cassie sang Say A Little Prayer, but she does not have the voice to carry off such a big song. 2 to Go were poor again, and were favourites to go, before they sang their hotel-lounge-act version of (I've Had) The Time of my Life. Steve gave his best performance to date, in my opinion, with Smile. Rowetta sang Somewhere over the Rainbow in a fabulous long kaftan style wrap top and trousers. G4 finished the show with a cover of Britney Spear's Hit Me Baby One More Time. A lot of people were a bit confused by it, including Sharon Osborne, who called it "Bizarre" and "Fabulous". I think I liked it.

The bottom two after the viewer votes were 2 To Go and Voices With Soul. Both were acts mentored by Louis Walsh. After they had performed again, Sharon voted to keep VWS in, and Louis had the second vote, giving Simon the casting vote. Louis eventually decided that 2 To Go should go, thus Simon didn't need to vote. It was not all bad for Emma, the female vocalist in the act, as she was proposed to by her boyfriend later that evening.

Sunday' News of the World claims to know who fancies who on the set.

Steve Brookstein has been trying his chances with Cassie Compton, while Voices With Soul's Hildia Campbell has her eye on G4's Mike Christie. Meanwhile, Rowetta Satchell, Emma Paine and Corene Campbell have all shown an interest in heart-throb Jonathan Ansell, who also sings in G4

They obviously couldn't think of anything else to write about.