[Red Moon]

Dreary O'Leary needs voting off

There are only two things really wrong with The X Factor - the acts and the judges. Oh, and Dermot O'Leary.

Dermot is a product of the David Brent school of "groovy" presentational skills.

"Your Saturday night starts here, people," he purred as if he thought he had wandered into an episode of CSI.

The continuity announcer sounds like Tom Baker in Little Britain: "It's time to face the music!" he boomed, which given what's coming is how I feel most weeks.

I don't see anyone from the last five having a successful career. Niki sang a Bonnie Tyler song only with none of Bonnie's gutsy (mad) abandon. This doesn't leave much.

"You are relatable," trilled Sharon Osbourne. Translation? You are ordinary.

Same Difference is the pop equivalent of LazyTown. If only they could sing as well as they can grin.

They are so vacuous, even Louis Walsh accuses them of lacking talent - and he should know. The judges talked up Rhydian, but then again, as the favourite to win, they had to. And the way he kept begging for votes confirmed he'd had his worst week.

Like a freakish cross between Rutger Hauer and Billy Fury, he seems to have jettisoned the idea of knocking out zany operatic hits like Falco's Amadeus in favour of occupying the Songs Of Praise market. His version of Somebody To Love sounded like Harry Secombe, while his black-shirted, Aryan-looking performance of I Vow To Thee My Country was faintly sinister.

Finally, we had Leon - a cross between X Factor has-been Shayne Ward and Fame Academy never-was David Sneddon. The last thing the charts need is some fresh-faced kid in a suit pretending he's Dean Martin smugly singing "swing".

Of course, the judges will never say any of this, having given up any attempt at serious criticism long ago.

Sharon Osbourne told Leon, "that wasn't one of my favourites," before adding the ridiculous adjunct, "but you're so damn cute".

Her most damning critique of Hope was "I respect thast you tried your best." Translation: they were both rubbish.

Walsh wittered on about Beverley being voted out last week. GET OVER IT! And he desperately bigged up his last act, Niki, as "Las Vegas quality" when her description: "I'm just a dinner lady" was closer to the truth.

As usual, a show that is supposed to be about discovering a star degenerated into points scoring and pantomime.

Cowell had a dig at Louis' hair. Louis questioned Dannii's right to talk about acts singing out of tune.

And Osbourne revealed what an unpleasant old bag she can be by snapping at Cowell and spending most of the show playing to the audience like some Ugly Sister.

Only Cowell was prepared to tell any of the performers "that just wasn't good enough" - although even he cared most about getting his own acts through.

Ultimately, Hope were voted out, allowing O'Dreary to utter his ludicrous catchphrase, "let's look at your journey".

(No Dermot, let's look at yours. Out of TV.) The whole show is about Dermot and the judges - their egos, their fame.

"Who will get the £1m recording contract and who will go back to their day jobs?" the narrator had asked at the beginning. Now that would be a good concept. One where all the losers had to stay out of showbusiness.

Then we'd really have a contest.

Source: Daily Mirror

[Jackie]

Hes better off presenting BBLB he was good on their.

[GiRTh]

He's 100 times better than Kate Thornton. At least he brings a sharper wit to the programme.

[Dan_]

Originally posted by GiRTh
He's 100 times better than Kate Thornton. At least he brings a sharper wit to the programme.

Totally agree with you there mate.So much better than auto-Kate, there was no point in having her there, might as well have just had a robot or someone doing the voice over.

[CassetteFinger]

I prefered Kate.

[GiRTh]

Originally posted by Rice_Snap
I prefered Kate.

Her inane grin did my head in.

[Dan_]

Originally posted by Rice_Snap
I prefered Kate.

Why? She was so boring

[GiRTh]

Originally posted by Dan_

Why? She was so boring

She was. She was neither sharp nor witty. She just grinned all the time.

[MarkWaldorf]

I miss Kate, when someone does a show for so long, it's hard to replace them.

[Tom]

Kate was miles better than Dermot. Dermot tries too hard. Dermot is trying to be Ryan Seacrest with his "witty" comments and weird actions which just backfire. Some people say auto-Kate was bad, but at least she got her lines right unlike Dermot. There is an autocue in front of him and he says the same thing every week, yet 7 weeks in he is still making little mistakes.

I also don't like his voice, its boring and monotone. He .. also .. speaks .. like .. this which is annoying when he pads stuff out more than they need padding.

Bring back Kate! She was 1000000000000000000000 times better!

[Kristen]

I hate Dermot on TXF. He always asks stupid questions and tries to get his opinion across which is not needed.
An example of when he asked a stupid question was when he asked Westlife who they thought should go. Westlife weren't excactly going to have a bitch-fest about the worst singer on stage.
Always thought he was overrated

[GiRTh]

At least he does more than grin and laugh at everything.

[Billy]

Kate was by far better. Dermot cant even say Final Showdown, according ot him its Final Countdown. Least Kate got her lines right, I loved her at auditions too, we barelye Dermot at auditions

[Bells]

The main reason why I'd say I miss Kate is because she was there for a while. But Dermot is actually doing a pretty good job! In all honesty, TXF has changed quite a bit since it first started out, and Dermot is a new change to go with it. Not to mention I'm more used to him now.

[BigSister]

I think Dermott is ,miles better than Kate at least he doesnt make them pressure when they have to choose an act in the final 2 and he stick up for them sometimes

[Billy]

He puts pressure on the judges ie Louis

"i wish i ddint have to do this"
"yes but you do"

[GiRTh]

Originally posted by Billy
He puts pressure on the judges ie Louis

"i wish i ddint have to do this"
"yes but you do"

Surely thats good, isn't it. Kate just stood there like she didn't have a clue.

[Billy]

Your making it sound as though Kate was clueless and unprofessional whereas tha was teh complete opposite to what she was

[GiRTh]

She didn't add anything to the show. Anyone could have done what kate did. At least Dermot adds a bit of wit and personality to the show.

[Wasted]

I think he's doing a great job on XF, even though I liked Kate. And that's surprising because I could not stand him on BBLB, I stopped watching altogether because he was that bad.

[Tom]

Originally posted by GiRTh
She didn't add anything to the show. Anyone could have done what kate did. At least Dermot adds a bit of wit and personality to the show.

Dermot doesn't really add much to the show, he tries to be witty but it really doesn't work. He makes too many mistakes, talks too slow and pads it out too much.

At least with Kate, her voice was easier to listen to, it wasn't like she needed a good cough or a packet of lockets.

[GiRTh]

Originally posted by Tom_

Dermot doesn't really add much to the show, he tries to be witty but it really doesn't work. He makes too many mistakes, talks too slow and pads it out too much.

At least with Kate, her voice was easier to listen to, it wasn't like she needed a good cough or a packet of lockets.

Kates voice was easy to listen to eh? She shouted every single line. I was always reaching for the volume control when she was on. Dermot's style is not the same as Kate ie he actually is trying to bring some personality to the presenting role. She was terrible. You could have trained a monkey to present the show the way she did.

[Tom]

... and the monkey would still do a better job than Dermot.

[GiRTh]

Originally posted by Tom_
... and the monkey would still do a better job than Dermot.

Due to the fact that the monkeys training would be based on Kates style, I'd expect you to say that. A monkey presenting X-Factor like Kate would probably seem better to you. One question, if she was so good then why did Simons get rid of her?

[Tom]

To keep the show fresh. Nothing to do with her style otherwise she wouldn't have made 3 series. Simon wants X Factor to be a carbon copy of American Idol, hence why Dermot met Ryan Seacrest for presenting tips, and why Dermot acts like Ryan (or tries to).