Handbag's got the X Factor 2011 - the final 32 are announced!
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Last night we saw the final round of bootcamp, with the remaining contestants performing live Wembley Arena in front of the four judges and an audience of 5,000 people.
The acts are given a quick talking to from the judges, led by Gary who seems to be reading An Idiot’s Guide to Giving Pep Talks before he goes to bed at night– he’s all ‘make the song your own, give it your best shot,’ blah blah snore.’
Fortunately we wake up just in time to catch the first act - Misha Bryan (remember her from the Manchester auditions?). She’s singing her own version of Destiny Child’s survivor, which goes down a treat with the audience and Kelly.
We’re also meet Melanie McCabe singing Freedom – note perfectly as the judges observe. Kelly’s already got her eye on the girls at this point, but will she get her wish?
David Wilder (you may remember him as the love child of Mick Jagger and Jimmy Saville) is confident that he’s through to the next round – despite getting a booing from the audience.
Goldie Cheung, who appears to be Gary Barlow’s biggest fan, is back, and this time she chases him around the arena. For once he takes it in good humour and doesn’t have her thrown out of the room. She also whips her fan out in a violent way, which is faintly terrifying.
Other standouts acts for us included Terry Winstanely, who sang a lovely version of U2’s One Love before he got the lyrics, Janet Devlin who Gary absolutely LOVES and Sophie Habibis, who Kelly Rowland announces that she wants singing at her wedding.
We zoom through the rest of the acts at lightning speed – basically Kelly loves everyone, Gary hates everyone and Tulisa and Louis both look like they’re thinking about they’re going to have for dinner.
And then it’s time to announce the winners:
The boys
The over-25s
The groups
The girls
The final 32 all run into the main arena to do some lightly choreographed screaming and jumping around. But there’s no time to spare, the judges are about to find out which categories they’re getting. Tulisa wants to the groups, if Gary gets the groups of the over 25s he’s apparently leaving. See ya Gary!
Or not, as Gary gets the boys, to their mutual delight. He’s taking them to LA, Simon Cowell stylee for their judges houses round (or judges holiday destination of choice round as it’s now become).
Louis gets the Over 25s, so no surprises there, he’s touchingly sweet at getting this particular bunch of oddballs. And he’s taking them to Barcelona – why does Louis always get the rubbish destinations? However, Johnny Robinson announces that he’s looking forward to going to it– he’s never been but he heard it’s somewhere near Spain. This is going to be fun.
Kelly gets the girls – as she’d demanded in her contract hoped for all along, and leaps straight into crazy, scary mentor mode. And she’s taking the girls to Miami! Cue even more screaming.
This leaves Tulisa with the groups, just as she wanted. They’re heading back to the motherland (Greece, not Camden) for the next round.
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