X Factor five face fresh battle
Saturday, 25 Nov 2006 11:45
The X Factor judges will have the final decision tonight
After tonight there will only be four acts left in this year's X Factor competition – but it's difficult to see who is safe from the threat of their dreams ending horribly this evening.
Illness is playing havoc with the voice of favourite Leona , who has consistently wowed the judges every week. When she opens her mouth her fantastic voice is plain for all to hear – the problem is, her bout of tonsillitis means nothing but a croak might emerge tonight.
Then there's Ben Mills, the gravelly-voiced Joe Cocker-esque marquee company director. He will be singing Your Song and Live and Let Die tonight, so long as media reports about him threatening to leave the show aren't true.
Meanwhile Ray Quinn, whose quiff-laden antics have wowed the studio audiences if not the viewing public, will consolidate his old-style image with another Elvis impersonation – this time with Jailhouse Rock. The Liverpudlian swinger won't be playing to his type completely, however – to avoid the criticisms of judge Louis Walsh he'll also be performing The Way You Look Tonight. Let's hope tonight he looks alright.
That leaves the MacDonald Brothers, whose brand of soppy Scottish sentimentalism remains inexplicably popular to the frustration of Simon Cowell, and Eton Road, who have been claiming that Wayne Rooney is one of their biggest fans.
Difficult to see Wayne joining the boys on stage, or effeminate Anthony playing for Manchester United, isn't it? Which only goes to show that you can only be truly great at just the one thing.
Whether Rooney and the rest of the British public will still be keen on the boys after their performance of Can You Feel The Love Tonight remains to be seen. They narrowly escaped after caterwauling their way through the Scissor Sisters last week; will they be in the bottom two again?