On X Factor

With thousands of barbeque's cancelled over the weekend it must have surely been the bad weather that led to the opening episode of X Factor pulling in 10.7m viewers(half of the TV Audience) on Saturday night.

I will admit that I was on them although watching it delayed on Sky plus after catching up on the brilliant "Wilde" starring Stephen Fry.

Just what attracts people to the show,I am not sure.It certainly isn't the music,for as the show continues we put up with half rate musicians whose fame will rarely extend past the Xmas single market.

Shrouded in controversy this year,surely nobody believed that the scenes involving the comeback of Luis Walsh were anything other than manufactured.

The heart pulling moment of the singer who found her entry form whilst clearing her dead father's belongings has now been diminished by the fact that she was signed to Pete Waterman 18 years ago.

Maybe we just like laughing at the hopeless cases that are put before the camera including the pensioner that played tunes down her nose.

I wait to see how the viewing figures hold up in the coming weeks