Simon Cowell admitted last night at the National television Awards that he still hadn’t bothered to learn the names of the 4 boys from 4Tune.

“You know what, I didn’t actually get round to getting to know them,� Simon said. “Mike and the others I call them.�

To me that would suggest that Simon didn’t really think the boys had a shot at winning the contest and, as many people have suggested, just put the group through to the final to irritate Louis who let them go at last years bootcamp.