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Llloyd that is, surely tonight is his time to go.

The kids is yet to sing a song in tune (Bleeding Love literally made my ears bleed in pain) and has the personality of a sloth – I can’t help but be amused that he gets through week after week because teenage girls fancy him and no one bats an eyelid – but the country went into meltdown each time Jedward survived. In terms of singing talent I think Lloyd and Jedward were of the same level, aka crap.

The ironic thing being I remember Cheryl not puting through the hot American dude because he’d “get by on his looks alone”, yet she’s forever cooing over gorgeous little Lloyd and playing up to the tween vote to win him votes.

Annoyingly he probably will survive again, his fans will know he’s in danger and vote en masse whereas those who think their fave is safe as houses (Stacey? Joe?) will not vote as much and we may see one of them slip through the cracks.

I have got a little behind on my new music recently and have several new albums I was waiting a long time for, still sitting unopened!

I am going to correct that over the next few days. Starting with my beloved Robbie Williams, moving on to Cheryl Cole, a bit of Alexandra Burke and Mika and then finishing off with Leona Lewis.

I love listening to a new album for the first time, there’s no feeling quite like it – hearing a song for the first time that goes on to be one of your all time favourites, awesome

Wow, last week I was really impressed and didn’t want anyone to go home – this week I couldn’t care less who goes.

I can’t believe I am about to say this, but my favourite act of the night was John and Edward, purely for the “What are they doing?” factor.

Loved Lucie as well and Stacey sings like an angel and is gorgeous but her personality really grinds my gears – other than that I thought they were all average at best and atrocious at worst.

What was Cheryl thinking giving Lloyd ‘Bleeding Love’, it had disaster written all over it. I thought Miss Frank were dire. Hated Rachel and Danyl’s performances and I hardly even remember the rest!

What a disapointment this week was, I hope that next week will be better.

It’s official, I hate the new X Factor format.

I wanted to give it a fair chance before writing it off but now that the auditions stage is over I can safely say that I really do hate it.

Ii am not into the show at all yet this year whereas usually I would have some firm favourites, know which group I would personally want and have people I am looking forward to seeing again. This year, none, I don’t even remember any one.

There just seemed to be so much missing. The judges didn’t have any arguments. There were no crack ups from the judges who just couldn’t control their laughter. The heckling (“Let her sing another song!”) from the audience was annoying and not a single one of them had to be escorted away by security.

Plus Cheryl Cole – love her, love love love love love her. But the ‘St Cheryl’ act is wearing thin now, it seems like every episode she cried when someone else was, got up on stage to help someone out or give them a hug etc. Cheryl is nice enough, we don’t need these staged acts to show that and it actually makes me like her a little less.

It was shit basically and I hope that the bootcamp stage will be better and they will return to the old format for next year.

Firstly, I am impressed. The last few seasons at this point I have wondered if it is worth continuing as the talent factor seemed low, but this year I already love several of the acts and there’s only two or three who have ‘Early Boot’ written all over them.

I also feel I should disclose I have a total girly crush on the lovely Cheryl Cole — not in a sexual way you understand, she just makes me happy on the inside because she’s beautiful and sweet!

Dani has the worst set of acts, Cheryl has the best, some of Simon’s will do well because they are hot boys and Louis….poor Louis, why has he not retired yet?

Best performances of the night were Alexandra, who I never rated too much throughout the audition process and sweet little Diana who has a divine voice — though I did agree with Dani’s criticism that the performance with the hands was a bit..err..creepy.

Worst performances were Daniel, the guy who…let’s be honest…is only on the show because his wife died in tragic circumstances. He’s a cruise ship singer at best. And Rachel, awful styling, awful song choice, awful voice and just bloody awful attitude — I strongly dislike her. Also poor Scott, probably the worst performance on X Factor ever, good on Simon for admitting he made a terrible song choice for him and good on the public for giving the lad a second chance.

I also didn’t rate Laura too much, it wasn’t atrocious but the comments from the judges confused me as they were singing her praises and calling it the performance of the night. I think it was sketchy and her styling was way off…Cheryl made this gorgeous young creature look about 2 stone heavier than she is by pouring her into a dress that was clearly too small for her!

I was surprised by the bottom two, both of the girl groups. Neither wowed me, but neither were terrible either…except for Girl Bands name…I mean really, why did no one change that god awful name as they progressed in the competition? Based on their second performances I really felt like Bad Lashes deserved to stay — they are at least memorable. Girl Band should be renamed Girl Bland!

Overall, great start to the live shows