On the X Factor final, pre-watershed, "Christina Aguilera" and her dancers performed acts with a chair that would have made Cabaret's former furniture botherer, Liza Minnelli, blush to her very temples. Once again bottoms were aloft, crotches flashing, as if the show's producers were trying to deliver a very specific message to the hordes of six-year-old girls who were watching. Excellent.
In the Sunday instalment of the "X Factor final", X Factor "rejects" performed a version of Bad Romance that ended with former contestant Chloe Mafia being lowered on to the stage in a giant pair of lips-- The look of glee on Simon Cowell's face was quite astonishing to behold.
The X Factor final on ITV1 was watched by an average of 17 million viewers.
Last night's results show averaged 17.2 million viewers, a 55% share of the audience, between 7.30pm and 9.30pm on ITV1. The audience peaked with 19.4 million viewers – a 60% share – between 9.20pm and 9.25pm as Cardle was announced the winner.
Of The X Factor final's average audience of 17.158 million viewers – a 54.9% share – 1.088 million were watching on ITV1 HD last night.
Angry Rebecca Ferguson fans complain about jammed X Factor voting lines
Angry viewers flooded the ECHO with calls saying they could not get through to vote for Rebecca Ferguson.
