Dermot's big year
Dermot has had a great year
Dermot O'Leary has won over viewers and proved to be a huge success as the new host of X Factor, according to industry experts.
The 32-year-old presenter, who will host a Big Brother show for the last time in January when he fronts Celebrity Hijack, took over from Kate Thornton on the ITV1 talent show this year.
Heat's TV editor Boyd Hilton said: "Dermot doing the X Factor has been a huge success. It's always incredibly entertaining, but his just slightly barbed comments about some of the acts and the judges just makes the show slightly more credible than it used to be."
And it seems ITV favourites Ant and Dec are still at the top of their game, despite a phone-in scandal on their Saturday Night Takeaway.
"The trust issue of TV has been an enormous media story in 2007, but I actually think the viewers don't care that much," said Boyd.
"I don't think people will sit there and go 'I lost 50p' on Ant and Dec. The fact they still won those National TV Awards this year as they do year after year, was proof that if viewers love people on TV it doesn't matter what they do."
Metro
