[Patrick]

Originally Posted by georgehudson

2,500 completed application forms, 35,000 applied a few days back, so more would have applied by now. The open auditions are still to come so I think we will reach 100,000 easy.

They have never once released any statistics on how many people have applied, the only source is the Daily Star who are exagerating big time to prompt more publicity for the show, can't say I blame them, but anyone who believes them is laughable.

And the open auditions - you can only get invited to them if you apply online, so it isn't as if:

'Oh the Daily Star says 2 Thousand people applied over the internet last week, that must mean if 3 Thousand go to the open auditions, there'll be 5 altogether yay!'

If they like you online, they invite you to the open auditions, I can't see them taking any strangers of the street who just walk into some centre and decide to apply - they would of before lol obviously, but not this year.