[MarkWaldorf]

It was such an amazing day! It was first off, SO surreal seeing all the judges and presenters in person. Cheryl is so beautiful in real life and Dermot is soooo tiny! haha. I got in que at 8am and we weren't let in until 2pm, because Dermot had to do filming and we had to wait for the judges to arrive before we could get in. As you can imagine it was a huge uproar when the cars arrived and everyone was rushing to the front of the gates. Cheryl came like 45 minutes late and she still had the biggest applause when she got out. Below are pictures of Dermot filming his bit of introducing Bootcamp, where they made us all scream, bad pic of Cheryl arriving and a picture of Holly filming for ITV2:





So later at about 2:30pm, my side got ushered into the theatre and we got seated and I got great seats just a few rows behind the judges table. It's so shiny and futuristic! There was this warmup guy before hand and then Dermot came on and started taking the piss out of people. Then they made everyone film this scene where it's pitch back whilst he spoke, and when the lights came on we all had to jump up and scream. They kept effing it up though so we had to keep doing it! lol The Bootcamp stage:



Afterwards the judges came out and each of them got a really good applause, more-so Cheryl though. She had lots of support banners. They got seated and Simon spoke to us all and explained they had chosen the final 50 and 30 of them would be eliminated at this stage, but that was to be in private and no audience. Photos:



Top 50:


There is A LOT of talent this year. I feel bad for them all because there's truly so many that deserve to be in the live shows and won't be. Look out for a girl group named Frank. They were only put together 24 hours ago but are absolutely amazing. They're like a new and improved Mis-Teeq and they're completely different to ANY band ever on X Factor.

LOTS OF HOT GUYS TOO Thanks for reading! They made us turn off cameras and mobiles whilst filming so there's none of the acts performing, sorry!