The X Factor

Applications can now be made for the fifth series of The X Factor.

Online applications can be made at the X Factor site.

After a performance from this week's guest, Michael Bublé, it was down to the serious business of the night after a pretty poor semi-final.

Tonight the contestants were fighting for a place in the final and with none of them having been in the bottom two before it was anybody's game.

Leon Jackson had yet another chance to sing a Michael Bublé song this week but this time it was with the man himself.

The first act declared safe was Niki, followed by Leon then not surprisingly Rhydian which left both of Simon's acts and only one place in the semi-final.

We are now down to five acts all battling for a place in the semi-final.

Media Guardian reports that the number of votes cast by viewers of The X Factor has fallen by about 50% in the current series.

X Factor presenter Dermot O'Leary has quit Big Brother's spin-off show Big Brother’s Little Brother. But he will be presenting E4’s Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack in January.

Louis Walsh's mum revealed that his name is really Michael Vincent.

Well, that was a bit of a shock result tonight!