The X Factor Blog: Boot Camp- 72 Hours of Clichés

Let’s welcome Nicole Schenziger back to the panel full time. Anyone who’s been saying she should be dropped in favour of Mel B are crazy. Give her a chance, she hasn’t done anything yet. Mel B had that one montage of nasty comments and everybody was comparing her to some kind of reality TV show monster. The rest of her work was pretty average or dull. Why are we inviting the Spice Girls back into our lives???

So, everybody is back at X Factor Boot Camp again. The horrible VTs continue with us just “dropping by” to see the contestants pack their bags and head off to Liverpool. For most of them though they shouldn’t have got off the National Express as they were dumped before Boot Camp even kicked off in the big surprise twist. The big surprise twist that they did last year. They got a little party with JLS though so swings and roundabouts.

You will be missed Gathan.

The “This is my once in a lifetime opportunity” phrase they keep jabbering on about is a load of rubbish. We all know that the producers will get them to return next year. It should be called the Ex-Factor the ridiculous amount of ex contestants that have got through this far.

My favourite contestant was Gathan. There is a ready made boy band with him, Rylan and Octavio. Make it happen Louis, MAKE IT HAPPEN. Gathan is already convinced he has won the competition, it’s a shame he didn’t make Judges’ Houses. He would have been really entertaining come the live shows.

Anyone who shakes so much and is really nervous about performing, well maybe you’ve chosen the wrong career and you really shouldn’t be a national TV. It is so annoying and it does not endear me to you (see Jahmene, Christopher).

We also had a few shocks. Joseph Whelan, the guy who would give Peter Andre a run for this money in Dad of the year awards, seemed like an obvious choice to go to Judges’ Houses but fell short.

Rylan Clark. You know what the best thing about him? The fact he wears t-shirts with his face on them like it’s the most normal thing in the world.

One of Rylan's many t-shirts.

Where the hell did James Arthur’s Deidre glasses come from? You can’t expect to add them and nobody is to mention them??

How do people let themselves be judged by Tulisa when she decided on having scarecrow straw-yellow hair?

Was there a separate Jade category we weren’t informed about?

We had Simon Cowell’s contractual involvement to try to get the ratings up by ringing the judges to tell them who their category was. Absolutely pointless. Louis has the groups AGAIN. Gary has the Overs, Nicole is with the boys and Tulisa is with the girls. Why did Tulisa shout like that when Simon called her? She pulled possibly the most unattractive face she could have pulled. She does my head in.

So it’s Judges’ House next week. Let’s see who makes a massive mistake and leaves someone great out. It’ll be Louis. It's always Louis.