The X Factor journey finally came to an end for Ruth Lorenzo last night, after she polled the lowest number of public votes.
The theme for the night was Britney Spears, which almost certainly contributed to Eoghan polling the second lowest number of votes. Earlier Simon Cowell had commented how none of Britney’s songs suited Eoghan’s voice, and correctly predicted it would be a tough week for him.

Despite getting good comments from all the judges, Rachel Hylton has become the latest act to leave the X Factor.

She was joined in the bottom two by Louis Walsh’s last remaining act, JLS.

The theme for the night was ‘Take That’, with all contestants joined in rehearsals by Gary and Mark from the band. There had been tears on the show earlier, after Louis Walsh accused Dannii Minogue of ’stealing’ the song choice he had intended for JLS, which left Dannii visibly upset. Simon Cowell came down firmly on the side of Dannii however, saying she was only ‘doing the best for her act’, and that ‘any of us would have done it’.

Danny Evans and Rachel Hylton made the less controversial bottom two this week, after last weeks verdit which left so many outraged.

Daniel sang ‘Bridge over Troubled Water’ as his final song, but it wasn’t enough to save him as the judges bowed to public opinion and ejected him from the competition.

Louis Walsh has defended his controversial decision to send Laura White home on Saturday, saying she was ‘never going to win’.

“Laura was in the bottom two – her performance was bad and her styling was even worse”, Louis was quoted as saying in The Sun.

The evicition of Laura White has produced a torrent of comments in defense of her here on X Factor Blog. Questions have even been asked in Parliament, with Culture Secretary, Andy Burnham calling Laura ‘very talented’.

Lilly Allen has also spoken out, saying she felt ‘quite upset’ at the show.