With just five acts left in the competition things are really getting tight in the X Factor. Last week’s eviction of Beverley provoked the biggest reaction we’ve ever had at the X Factor blog, with over 250 comments in a couple of days on the main story, and another 150 or so in others!
Will this week’s show prove to be equally controversial?
This week’s theme is ‘Best of British’, with all the acts singing two songs. Here’s what you can expect to hear on Saturday:
Hope
We Will Rock You
2 Become 1
Leon
The Long and Winding Road
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Niki
Fields of Gold
Total Eclipse of The Heart
Rhydian
Somebody To Love
I Vow to Thee My Country/World In Union
Whoever the eventual winner of X Factor 2007 is, we now know what they’ll be singing - a re-worked version of the Mariah Carey song ‘When You Believe’.
Songwriter Stephen Schwartz has altered the lyrics especially for the track, which will be released on Monday the 17th of December.
Welshman Rhydian Roberts is currently the bookie’s favourite to win the show, with 80s nearly-star Niki Evans a distant second.
Beverley and Hope were the two acts in the bottom two tonight, after a strong performance by all the remaining contestants.
Simon and Louis both predictably backed their own acts, Hope and Beverley respectively, but Dannii and Sharon both had harder decisions to make.
Dannii commented that both acts had ’sung their hearts out’, but said that Beverley had been more consistent, so voted to send Hope home.
Sharon then voted to send Beverley home, creating the first voting deadlock in X Factor. As such, the decision was left to the public vote, with the act that had polled the lowest number of votes during the evening being sent home. That act was Beverley, leaving Louis with only Niki left in his category.
This week’s X Factor theme is classic love songs, but with just six acts left and one more to leave at the end of Saturday’s show there are bound to be tears before it’s all over.
Here’s what the remaining contestants will be singing this week:
