I'm not your Friend!

X Factor just wouldn’t be the same if there weren’t outrages, sob stories and a bit of judge bashing along the way, and this series is doing it’s darnedest to to accommodate as many controversies as it can think of. Firstly, there was the autotune scandal, where it emerged that none of the contestants could sing, which was a massive surprise to us all. Then, Princess Cheryl was struck down with malaria, only to reemerge and find herself at the end of hate mail and death threats for failing to put one of the more tuneful contestants through to the live finals. She might have got away with choosing seemingly slightly unbalanced teenager Cher Lloyd based on her initial audition but provoked cries of “unfair” when she picked flakey Katie Waissel over Gamu Nhengu, who is now facing serious visa issues.

This calls for a t-shirt of some kind of another, possibly a little “Anyone but Katie” number. But what would X Factor be without a few boos and hisses for the pantomime villains!