[Jack_]

The X Factor is and always has been an entertainment show first and foremost, and a talent show second. I honestly cannot comprehend how some people, nine series in, still fail to understand this and are riled up at every incident that proves this to be the case.

Just see the show for what it is - an entertainment show. Saturday (and Sunday) night entertainment. And a bloody brilliant one at that too. It's TV, it's on a commercial channel, there's advertisers to please, controversy sells - what on earth do you expect? The Voice tried the whole 'we're a real singing competition' in a spectacularly narcissistic fashion and look how that turned out. Without the dramatics and spectacle that the X Factor offers you're left with a karaoke competition in all its glory, and that, ultimately, is dull.

Just embrace it, we've had some great entertainment out of it this series. The Deadlock drama from Week 1 with Louis, fag-ash breath, James/Ella bottom two, the Baloney saga, Rylan/Gary's banter. It's been great.