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Chaos At X Factor Auditions

An estimated 10,000 people turned up in Manchester yesterday for an opportunity to take part in the next series of ITV's talent show The X Factor.

Crowds waited at Manchester United's Old Trafford football stadium from dawn. The show's presenter Dermot O'Leary put in an appearance.

Many people said the auditions were a "shambles", one mother posted her feelings on the Unreality TV forum. She said: "My daughter left Doncaster this morning at 6.30am arrived at old Trafford at 8.30, was left to stand in the open for 8 hours along with all the other hopefuls, was so cold and fed up that by the time she was asked to sing she had a dry throat and could not reach her notes.

"This is the most disorganised audition process I have ever seen. After all that time she was given a measly 30 seconds to impress the people employed to choose who goes through to the televised audition..."

One of the organisers said: "We couldn't believe how many people turned up."
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Sunday Mail stars show they have the X Factor

THREE Sunday Mail stars have made it over the first hurdle in this year's X Factor.

Scottish Slimmer of the Year Lisa Milburn and Karaoke Champ finalists Christeen Macmurdie and John Cowie were all asked to come back after the show visited Hampden last week.

SundayMail

Girl group's got the X Factor

A SPUR of the moment decision could lead to stardom for a group of girls from South Tyneside.

Faye Rogers, Carly Ahmed and Libby Walker, all 19, make up three fifths of Desire, who are through to the boot camp stage of The X Factor.

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X Factor judges blast Welsh talent

THE X Factor judges have blasted Welsh talent after holding the hit show’s auditions in Cardiff this week, saying: “This year’s winner won’t come from Wales”.

Pop supremo Simon Cowell said they had found almost NO talent in Wales – and that viewers would be let down when they saw the show.

And Boyzone and Westlife manager Louis Walsh said all the contestants they had seen in Cardiff had been lunatics – and that the Welsh contestants were the worst in years.

Walesonline

We still have X Factor

MANCHESTER still has The X Factor, according to judges on the hit ITV1 show.

The city - home of 2005 winner Shayne Ward - has again produced some potential stars of the future.

"As with every year, Manchester has come up trumps with talent," said a spokesman for judges Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh, Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole.

A fifth series of The X Factor begins on Saturday, with auditions at Old Trafford among the first to feature on screen. A total of 182,000 people applied to take part in the new series.

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Bridgend teen on spot over X Factor suicide comments

A TEENAGER from Bridgend shone at the X Factor auditions after being told by the producers to comment on the town’s spate of young suicides.

Alexandra Davies, of Davies Avenue, Litchard, appeared on the hit ITV show last Saturday night.

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X Factor contestant 'made to talk about Bridgend suicides'

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