Going Going Gone

Ah that lustful Louis Walsh. He finally got his. The twins from Hades have been tossed out of X Factor. And it's about time.

If one goes back over their history one finds not a single hint of any talent. They've been terrible all along. Some people actually liked their contribution to the show but that's another story dealt with below. The question at hand is how anyone could justify keeping them in and excluding others. The answer is it can't be justified at all.

The next question is therefore why they were kept in. Simon Cowell hated them. Threatened to not even fly with them if they got through and he became their coach. Everywhere people were cringing at the prospect of them appearing on the live shows. Others wept and lamented the good talent Louis Walsh dismissed so he could keep the twins who he so obviously lusted for.

For this wasn't a question of any ordinary prejudice. This was pure raw sexual lust. And Louis has been looking like a perve 'freshly fished' for the past few weeks. They've certainly been an aphrodisiac for the dirty old man.

But it was Brian Friedman who kept them in week after week with his elaborate stage shows and choreography. He complained continually about what a pain they were to work with but he certainly gave it his all, allocating significantly more to their acts than to anyone else's. And he had to: for what do you do with two outrageously annoyingly untalented twits like them? You surround them with talent. You have to drown them out. Rupert's Sun are spreading a rumour that the sound engineers deliberately mixed their vocals down on the live performances. But that's rather typical for a rag effectively boycotted to this day in Liverpool. GOTCHA, Rupert.

They were cabaret shows. At the centre were two rather unconscionable idiots. It was bizarre.

Simon Cowell made a lot of money by booting Lucie Jones. The voting and the viewing have been hysterical. But 'Scowl' knew that the short term win would backfire in the long term. By this time next year everyone would have forgot about Jedward but they'd remember how Simon undermined the career of a lovely girl and ultimately destroyed his own franchise.

H/T to @Katiewalker93 for coming out and saying it as it is.