Rant warning chaps!!

Last night, I confess, I watched the final of X factor. (Factory is better)
Boy do I cringe at that show…!

Not only are the judges sycophants most of the time, but those performing look wildly terrified and even the presence of the ‘trying that little bit too hard’ Take That didn’t woo me over. A genuinely bizarre way to spend a few million quid if you ask me.

Last night some of dancers appeared to be dressed in bin bags (but I guess at least they were dressed at all… unlike the underwear clad pop stars of the moment.)

Is it me or does anyone else out there think it is the least creative show on earth???

People get to be dressed up, dolled up, mic’d up to look and sound not like themselves. They are then given someone’s else’s song to sing. How is this ‘showing us the real them?’ Its kareoke with designer clothes is what it is.

And don’t even get me started on the way they parade out all those who have ‘failed’ to make the grade on the show so that we can laugh at them… I did not laugh AT ALL. I felt a little bit sick.

Where were the makeup artists for this group of people? Where was the kind lighting, the good camera angle, the rehearsed movement and the sucking in underwear? Where?

I’ll tell you. Its was all hiding in a big box in the dressing room of the judges and those they are ‘mentoring’

There is a reason why performing in pubs and clubs is good for singers. It is real experience of real people. I think, genuinely that this programme should be called “Why factor” and my answer would be… I have not the faintest idea pal!