As expected, on tonight’s X Factor show, Simon Cowell addressed the week’s headlines and public outrage at his decision to Save John and Edward Grimes on last week’s show.
Simon denied claims that he sent the show to deadlock for tactical reasons and said that he did so because he fully trusts the British public.
Simon Cowell has met with all the remaining X Factor acts and assured them that whoever wins will receive his full backing. However he warned them that this is crunch time and asked them to ‘up their game’ if they want to stand a chance of winning.
Simon told The Daily Star: “No-one who could have won has gone so I think the public have got it right so far.
“But I had a conversation with all the contestants to say whoever wins I will give them my full support.
It looks like Simon Cowell has been busy with the thumbscrews this week. Why else would Dannii Minogue be defending his decision to save John and Edward Grimes on last week’s show?
Minogue told Metro: “Looking back at last Sunday, Simon was actually right in making the decision he made. He did it on the moment.
Daniel Evans - X Factor 2008
Former X Factor contestant Daniel Evans has hit out at Simon Cowell after he banned him from using the X Factor logo on his new album.
Although Daniel was not signed by Simon Cowell after the show, he has teamed up with an independent label to release his debut album. This week he revealed that he had hoped to include an X Factor logo on the album cover but X Factor bosses have banned him from doing so.
For the angry fans who want to send a message to Simon Cowell and the X Factor producers, there’s only one tactic that will work – vote for John and Edward. It became clear at the weekend that John and Edward are being kept in the competition to destabilise the other contestants and create publicity for the show. Even Louis Walsh admits they have no hope of winning, so why are they there?
We’ve been inundated with angry commenters who are either planning to boycott the show (I don’t believe them) or stop voting altogether. That won’t work! If you’re angry at the way X Factor has been managed this year, keep watching and voting, but only vote for John and Edward Grimes!
There’s an unspoken truth about X Factor this year: everybody knows it, but not many people are saying it out loud. The contestants this year are pretty dull.
I’m going to make my argument in3 simple bullet points:
Simon Cowell has reportedly laid down the law with his X Factor contestants. The music moghul is said to have banned all remaining acts from talking about his decision to save John and Edward Grimes last week.
The Daily Star quotes Olly Murs as saying: “I can’t say anything, they won’t let me.” Lloyd Daniels said: “I’m not allowed to say anything, sorry.”
This evening on Live From Studio Five, music mogul and ex-Pop Idol judge, Pete Waterman, held nothing back when commenting on Simon Cowell’s ruthlessness following the shock decision to go to deadlock on Sunday’s X Factor, resulting in Welsh favourite, Lucie Jones being booted off the show.
Waterman said: “I think everybody’s got the show wrong, there is only one star in the show and that’s Simon Cowell. It’s the Simon Cowell show and that’s what people watch, all the rest is irrelevant.”
In an interview given before Sunday’s X Factor results show, Louis Walsh admitted that he didn’t think John and Edward Grimes could win the show.
Louis was sure that if given the chance, Simon Cowell would vote the boys off the show. How wrong was he?
When asked if John & Edward could win, Walsh told The Daily Mail: “If I’m absolutely honest, I don’t think they can.
X Factor judge Dannii Minogue has reportedly stopped speaking to fellow judge Simon Cowell, after he got rid of her act Lucie Jones on last week’s show.
One of Dannii’s friends told The Sun:
“Dannii has declared war on Simon. She is so angry with him and hasn’t spoken to him since the show.
Max Clifford has claimed that Simon Cowell is regretting his decision to send Lucie Jones home, on last week’s X Factor show.
The Daily Record quoted Clifford as saying: “He is thinking he maybe got it wrong and misjudged it.”
Reports have claimed that Simon Cowell wanted Cheryl Cole to vote to save John and Edward Grimes on Sunday night’s X Factor.
A source told The Mirror that although Simon wanted Lucie Jones sent home, he didn’t want to be the one who made the call.
An insider said: “It seems Simon may have tried to get Cheryl to vote for the twins so he could save Lucie and then it could have gone to deadlock without him, or the show, losing any credibility.
Simon Cowell has admitted that his decision to save John and Edward Grimes on Sunday night’s X Factor, is probably his most controversial yet.
After OFCOM admitted that they are considering an investigation and the the public united in a huge backlash against the judge, Simon told The Sun:
“I’m going to get a lot of flak for my decision. I’ll be public enemy No 1.
If any of you watched the Xtra Factor last night, you’d have seen Simon trying to weasel his way out of responsibility for voting Lucie off. His excuse? The British Public failed to vote for her.
Well, yes, that’s true. But the British Public also failed to vote for his act, Danyl Johnson in an earlier week.
Although Cowell has grumped about John and Edward since the start of the live shows, he failed to kick them out of the competition last night. Not only did he fail to eliminate the duo, he technically voted to save them.
“How?” I hear you ask. Well, in order to go to the public vote, the judges decision must be split. Since Cheryl and Dannii voted to save Lucie, Louis voted to save his own act. The only way the decision could have been referred to the public vote was if Simon voted for John and Edward. And while he didn’t give them a ringing endorsement, he still allowed the public vote to take precedence. He had the power to save Lucie, but chose to wash his hands of a decision.
Simon Cowell has been accused of consulting The X Factor’s executive producer Richard Holloway before making his decision to send the show to deadlock and effectively save John and Edward Grimes last night.
The Sun reports that Cowell and Holloway were seen “in deep discussions” during the ad break which preceded Lucie Jones and Jedward’s sing off.
Despite claiming to detest X Factor twins John and Edward Grimes, Simon Cowell was reportedly very supportive of the boys as they rehearsed their Ghostbusters routine this week.
According to The Mirror, a source said of John & Edward: “They said Cowell had called them to one side as he was conscious that they were always getting abuse from him and told them to hang in there.
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