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X Factor's Eoghan Quigg is a big softie

If Eoghan Quigg wins The X Factor tonight, it will be because he tugged the nation's heartstrings by sobbing like a big softy on last week's show.

Alex Burke is clearly the outstanding talent, the only act capable of following Leona Lewis to the toppermost of the poppermost.

Even boyband JLS would be preferable to cry-baby Quigg and his croaking, fist-punching High School Musical routines.

Jls are a bit raw, but then have you ever seen early footage of Take That? Raw like sushi.

But cry-baby Quigg could nick it after blubbing his heart out when Diana got the boot.

Personally, I thought I was going to vomit.

But for every outraged dad who wanted to kick in his TV, I bet there were 10 women who wanted to hug the blubbing Ulsterman to their chest, and give him a good phone vote.

I remember when we said goodbye to another Diana, and William and Harry walked behind their mother's coffin, their hearts breaking but their eyes dry.

And I remember how Kate McCann never cried in front of the cameras, although she must have wanted to cry and never stop - in complete contrast to the crocodile tears of kidnap creep Karen Matthews.

We all feel like crying sometimes, but it should be as private as prayer.

But as we saw with William and Harry at Diana's funeral, and as Madeleine McCann's mother showed, real grief is frequently beyond tears.

What is that howling hobbit Eoghan going to do when he faces real tragedy - such as the death of his pet hamster?

Source: Daily Mirror