The X Factor: Celebrity

Some of the performances on this show are outstanding, yet it seems the best performances are rewarded with eviction, while the worst performers are continually kept in the show either because they are friends with Simon Cowell, or because they happened to perform early enough in the show to get the safe seat. With shows like this the final result of who is evicted should be cut and dry: the worst performer is out. Otherwise, the viewer gets a horrible feeling in their gut. It should at least be close! Martin Bashir is awful every week. He's unemployable in the real world, but keeps getting saved BY THE JUDGES over amazing, showstopping contestants. This doesn't normally happen on the XFactor but it obviously is this year because Simon is biased. If Martin had come on to the regular XFactor, unknown to Simon Cowel, Simon would have read him to filth and evicted him well before the live shows. Here, he selfishly keeps him while sending home contestants who've worked their balls off, simply because he likes Bashir as a person. That alone makes this show trash and I'm not going to watch it any more.

This really has been an embarrassing season and I have to agree with everything the other reviewers have said. For long time fans of the X Factor... this incarnation really is an insult to the senses... how are we meant to believe that the judges have stood behind many awful performances for the sake of ousting some pretty decent ones. Sorry Simon... this has been a farce and I'm pretty sure you know it has been as well!

After years of watching the original X Factor along comes the Simon money maker with X list celeb's (if half can be called that) that should not be singing at all and then some very talented celeb's who should deserve to be a part of the fiasco that's the Simon Cowel machine. Not content with having passable entertainment, Nicole seems to get bulled by Simon and Louie each week to use her golden buzzer to put who they want on a chair and not who she wants on the chair, maybe Vinnie Jones should have done the audition as from his live sing i doubt he would have been on the live shows as he's utter crap (don't give up the day job Vinnie, ups you did as the acting aint great either). All in All just a show to get the public's money as they didn't want to do an real x factor this year as the public are over it and if rumour has it it's an x factor battle of the bands next year instead of the all-stars x factor as previously announced. anyway, i doubt i will be bothering with this train wreck of a show any more after this, it's all now a big yawn (The only thing this show has going for it is the lovely Dermot o'leary yum yum).

Firstly i should point out i don't consider someone going on love island or a online influencer as celebrities. I find most reality TV garbage, so most of these people may as well be working at wall-mart for what i knew about them. I also get into this type of show by rooting for someone, after watching episode 1 couldn't care less who wins or loses. So this was a huge miss for me and won't be watching anymore of it

They were really struggling to keep 'The X Factor' on the air by this point, returning to the 'celeb' format that Simon Cowell had previously said they'd never do again.

It was fine, it was amiable enough, but it did feel like celebs (in the loosest sense of the word) 'playing' at being on the once great show, rather than this being a genuine contest.