Simon Cowell still hasn't had the courage to fire Sharon Osbourne, although he will probably delegate the task to one of the "executive producers" of The X Factor when the time comes.
The Sun reports today that X Factor's Rhydian Roberts has signed a £1 million record deal with Simon Cowell - and that he may have an album out before series winner Leon Jackson.
The second show of the evening - firstly it was time to decide who the viewers had voted into third place – this, surprisingly, turned out to be Same Difference.