Little Lloyd Daniels, the ‘baby of the group’ – to use Cheryl Cole’s monicker for her parping Welsh entrant – became the eighth act of The X Factor 2009 to be sent home last night. And this time it was purely down to the public vote.
When it came to the crunch, Lloyd’s parping through Elton John’s I’m Still Standing and his honk around Gary Barlow’s A Million Love Songs weren’t enough to win him the votes required.
It was Olly Murs who was stuck in the final two with the small boy, with Danyl Johnson, Stacey Solomon and Joe McElderry all finding safety from benign general public telephone voters.
This week’s X Factor was an endless beige plod featuring mediocre singers, tedious song choices and uninvolving platitudes from the judges. There was very little of any interest, so WWM has made the executive decision to stop reviewing the show this year. Without novelty fluff like Jedward, in-fighting amongst the judges and with only semi-bearable singers left in the competition, there’s not much point us sticking with it.
Sorry!
If you’re desperate for a fix, Stuart Heritage writes brilliantly about it each week over at HecklerSpray…
As for those Lloyd rumours, they’re probably best left to the ‘celeb gossip’ sites where they’ve inevitably already shown up – despite the fact Lloyd’s not technically a celebrity. Let them deal with the lawsuits….
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Don’t blame you at all for not reviewing the show any more this year – it’s just really, really dull.
Wow. This is like Obama refusing to talk to Fox News. This is big. This is huge…
Actually, yes. Well done. It’s particularly rubbish this year with not a deserving winner amongst them. I think it’s pretty obvious that whoever wins won’t go on to a Leona Lewis / Alexandra Burke career…
Good call. I think I shall stop watching it too, even if that does irk the missus.
I was enjoying it, in that perverse reality TV / guilty pleasure way, but then last week something snapped and I can’t do it any more.
Until next year, obviously.
I didn’t mean to frame this as a big announcement… oops.
It should totally be a big announcement. You should encourage other similarly themed television review websites to do the same. Boycott Cowell! Boycott banality! Boycott…. oh, who am I kidding…?
I don’t blame you. It really is duller than a dull thing now.
Zzzzzzz.
I didn’t watch it either. Now Jedward’s gone, what’s the point? Not just in TV, but in life.
One question – if it was all down to the public vote, why did they have a final two? Was it just to increase the so-called “suspense”?
I think it’s a shame!
I never watch the ‘Factor’ but enjoy reading about it!
It’s like listening to a radio show in a way, theatre for the mind. I liked reading about Little Lloyd Daniels ‘Parping’ along to those classic pop hits. God, the thought of actually watching him sing is sickening, but to imagine someone vocally farting their way through a song is really quite entertaining.
I don’t blame you for giving up Swines, but focus your attention on something equally vacuous soon!
ooh – what Lloyd rumours??
there are only two weeks left i think, given that next week is the semi final, could you not suffer that?? i do so look forward to your reviews of a monday. although granted it is pretty pants without the jed.
jamie – it was just for suspense purposes, it doesnt mean that olly had the second least amount of votes because dermot reads the results ‘in no particular order’ – havent you been paying attention?
I think Cowell’s plan is for the grand wail-off between the two final acts to go to deadlock FOREVER, finding more and more devious and obtuse ways to drag it out for yet another week, till the end of time.
Rather like the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch.
Will be interesting to see the viewing figure drop off ala Jordan and IACGMOOH. It was really hard work to watch. I stopped after 30 mins, recorded and skipped through in the morning. Sometimes there was 7 mins of padding between songs ffs.
Funny how Jedward leaving and boredom sweeping in encouraged Simon to wear a new racey suit to get people talking. I hate myself for watching this.
Is it me or does Lloyd Daniels look like Alan out of Thunderbirds in that picture?
Now that Lloyd Daniels is out of X Factor, he is free to marry Danielle Lloyd.
*implodes*
Is it just me or is Lloyd Daniels a talentless girly fop?
Strange, isn’t it, that you never see Lloyd Daniels and Danielle Lloyd in the same place at the same time…
*also implodes*
Well, Mr Green, one is a vacuous, talentless, blonde-haired, blank-faced waste of oxygen and the other…
…oh.
I’m tired, hungry and have a nasty headache. I am therefor grumpy.
Good morning!
This is going well eh?
I just had an egg sandwich and feeling a bit better now if anyone cares…
I think we’re all a bit Moanday.
I’ve got toothache after a filling fell out on Friday – it had only been put in on Wednesday.
Now the dentist is shut for a week, so have 7 days of pain to look forward to.
*goes all Morrissey*
Speaking of which, he was cheery as usual on Desert Island Discs yesterday wasn’t he?
I have just had a packet of Frazzles which were excellent.
And I have no idea what these Lloyd rumours are either. Do they concern the fact he may be the lovechild of Adam Ricketts?
You can get temporary filling stuff from the chemists Jamie.
I used it once and it works ok.
I quite like Frazzles.
Anyone see that that doc about milk on BBC3 last night?
BBC3 is a strange animal. On the one hand it’s shit and on the other …not.
Cheers Nick, might try that then.
Documentary about milk? On BBC3? Really? It wasn’t presented by George Lamb again was it?
I”ve heard the Lloyd rumours but don’t want to share them here in case SH gets in bother. Was initially disappointed to hear that you won’t be reviewing this any more Swines, since that has actually become my favourite thing about X Factor, but on reflection can understand the decision.
I think that the winner this year is going to do a Leon Jackson, which suggests that X Factor has got into some sort of cycle post Leona – winner swims (Leona), winner sinks (Leon), winner swims (Alexandra), winner sinks (Joe/Olly/Danyl/Stacey).
I also think that I’ve had as much of Minogue as I can take. If I was on Home & Away I’d say I’d had “a gutful”. As I’m not, I’ll just say that she’s a twat.
Nice to see the mystery of the knitted character revealed on Saturday too. I guess they worked out that we were onto them, and had to come clean… (or it was all just a gag as it was the final show in the series?).
It was a little joke for the final series I reckon. The rumours can be found using google, and typing ‘Lloyd Danyl rumours’ in. I’ve just discovered.
This is my favourite…“they can’t be as they’re in a different catagory”
I’m going to use yahoo answers for all my information
Ah, found out now. Tho I reckon my Adam Ricketts love child theory was more interesting.
I’m eating tomato and chilli soup. It tastes like a wet burp
Aw no! May I add my voices of slight disappointment, as I too enjoyed the X Factor revoos even before I’d watched a peep of it. And when I first heard Lloyd doing his honkety-parp last week, everything you’d written slotted into place like a cartridge in Chockablock.
Hello?
*shuffles awkwardly* While no-one’s here, I might as well mention I had a Watch With Mothers dream last night; that Swineshead was angrily railing against Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 because his hitherto unmentioned two-year-old son had picked up a sniper rifle from the floor of his flat and started randomly killing passers-by. (slight reality/game blurring there)
And all I thought was “Ahhhhhnn, Swineshead’s got a little boy! How adorable!” Nothing about the mass toddler genocide. How odd. Weirdest thing was, CoD MW2 isn’t even a TV programme!!!!!11!!!
And I don’t have any kids!
Sorry about the XF thing but it is genuinely getting hard to watch. Three hours of crap on a weekend is a hell of a lot.
Exciting NPA!
I think it was probably a prophetic dream Swines. In a dystopian future where Hackney is full of guns. OH WAIT A SECOND. (satire)
How do you know I’m in Hackney?
*looks through venetian curtains*
*blinds*
Can you get venetian curtains?
*ducks behind bushes with skill of one who has spent all weekend playing MW2 online* (ie none, as standing behind bushes and pressing B on an imaginary controller does not achieve a real-world effect)
You talk about it all the bloody time on the podcast, I am fervently hoping. It must be that, as I’m not *actually* stalking you. Or am I?
No.
I imagine all curtains in Venice are etc etc etc
At the risk of being banished forever for asking a stupid question – what does NPA stand for?
*gets ready to duck*
Not surprised Lloyd went. Apparently, Danyl is out this weekend, that’s what the bookies are saying anyway
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