Will Young guest-starred on tonight's live show and all feuds aside, gained Simon's appreciation at the end of the show. However, the start of the show saw the somewhat predictable hype over The X Factor Finalist's single Hero for Help Heroes following last week's performance. Hero is set to be one of the fastest selling singles this year, or if you're Simon - "of all time." Anyway, back to the glam and the glitz, it's Disco week!
For possibly the first time in X Factor history, Big Band week really meant Big Band week and hats off to the band for giving us, and the contestants a very enjoyable night. For me, it was the best live show of the series and saw a lot of very good performances.
Leon Jackson will perform his new single 'Don't Call This Love' on the first X Factor live show of the current series later this evening, (October 11th).
Finally, the most competitive category; The Girls were told that they would be whisked off to Cannes, and were overjoyed to learn that their mentor would be new judge, Cheryl Cole, assisted by fellow Girls Aloud member and best friend Kimberley Walsh.
Storms, tears, nerves, forgotten lyrics and weird outfits; you guessed it, it's the Judges' homes stage of The X Factor 5. And tonight's show didn't fail to deliver the drama that the show thrives upon.
Newly formed all girl band Bad Lashes are Emily McNamee, aged 19, Sophie Wilson, 23, from Hartlepool, and Samantha (Sam) Bennett, 21, and Stacey-Lacey Lincoln, 20, both from Durham.
Scott Bruton has hung up his Pontin's Bluecoat to concentrate on his X Factor dream. Possibly a wise move seeing as he is now through to the Judges' Homes stage.
