The X Factor (Pre-Live Shows)

Rachel should not have got through she was terrible

I hope Eoghan or Daniel wins

does anyone have the full list?

The 12 acts to make it through to this year's X Factor live finals have been revealed.

Simon Cowell's 'Boys' category will consist of Scott Bruton, a 19-year-old Pontins bluecoat who gave up his job for a shot at the contest; Eoghan Quigg, the youngest in the group at 15; and Austin Drage, a 21-year-old from Essex.

Alan Turner, who caused controversy with his backstory during the auditions, lost out at the Judges' Houses stage, along with Mali-Michael McCalla and Liam Payne.

From the six in the 'Girls' category, Cheryl Cole picked Diana Vickers, 17, Laura White, 20, and Alexandra Burke, also 20. Burke lost out at the Boot Camp stage in 2005, while White, who first auditioned while ill, has already been called "the one to beat" by Simon Cowell. Hannah Bradbeer, Anastacia Baker and Amy Connelly failed to make the cut.

Louis Walsh presided over the 'Groups' category in Ireland and opted for Bad Lashes, GirlBand and JLS as his acts. The mentor, who was helped by Shane Filan during the process, sent home Desire, 4 Instinct and Priority.

Finally, Dannii Minogue picked single mum Rachel Hylton, 26, Spanish-born 25-year-old Ruth Lorenzo and Danny Evans, 38, a single dad who entered the competition after the death of his wife, as her representatives from the 'Over-25s' category. Suzie Furlong, James Williams and Louise Heatly did not make it through to the next stage of the ITV1 contest.

The 12 finalists will battle it out in the first live show next Saturday.

Louis Walsh has predicted that Dannii Minogue will be axed from X Factor to make way for the return of Sharon Osbourne.

Osbourne quit the ITV1 talent series in June after making salary demands which were later described as "unreasonable" by executive producer Richard Holloway. She was replaced by Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole.

Walsh has now told the Daily Star Sunday that he expects Sharon to "come back next year".

He added: "And obviously Dannii would be the one to go - having Sharon and Cheryl on the show together is too good an opportunity to miss. The thing about Sharon is she can't be controlled. At the moment Simon [Cowell] has three judges, who, let's face it, he controls. With Sharon we never knew what she was going to do next - she was so unpredictable."

Minogue was the most successful mentor on last year's series, with the final two contestants - Leon Jackson and Rhydian Roberts - both coming from her category.

However, Walsh warned: "She hasn't a hope in hell of winning this series and I think she's going to continue to have a rough time of it."

I think they got it mostly right..
Cheryl and Simon chose the 3 i would have wanted...
Danni isnt gonna win.. Louis is right !!

With their first live show just around the corner music is not the only thing on the minds of the finalists in this season's X Factor. All 12 lucky hopefuls went along to a London clinic this week for facials and to have their teeth whitened, ensuring it's not only their talent that sparkles when they step out onto the TV stage.

The man behind the cosmetic makeovers is music mogul Simon Cowell. Following a precedent he set last year when he sent some of his acts to get their teeth laser whitened, the 48-year-old dispatched all of this season's finalists to a dental beauticians in Primrose Hill.

"Simon wants the acts to look their best once the live stages start," a source revealed. "He is convinced they will all look better with perfectly white teeth."

I think Cheryl has two singers that are two similar - Diana and Laura - I can't seem them doing an abba week or a motown week, one imitates Amy Winehouse and the other is jazz/blues.

I love both Diana and Laura (: think they're fab

Don't come from that far from me either (i know that sentence makes no sence lmao) Blackburn is like 2 minutes away and my Mum's from Bolton! A bit of useless information for you there!

But yeah I really like them both. And also I absolutely loved Bad Lashes singing Wonderwall. I really dislike that song but the way they sang it was fantastic.

MIFFED Sharon Osbourne wants to make a dramatic return to The X Factor to oust bitter rival Dannii Minogue.

She told telly bosses she’s missing the show and will return next year if she can replace 36-year-old Aussie Dannii.

Sharon, 55, quit the show earlier this year after ITV refused to meet her pay demands and vowed never to return.

Pals say her dislike of Dannii changed her mind. Her rival’s position on the panel is far from secure. Her role has faded with the success of Sharon's replacement Cheryl Cole.

The 25-year-old Girls Aloud beauty has already been offered £1million to appear again next year.


How dare Sharon just pick and choose when she wants to come back

Diana is my favourite out of all of them based on what I've seen her perform so far..

I hope Sharon Osbourne doesn't come back. At first, I thought I would miss her not being on the judging panel but I do think the panel is perfect this year and I wouldn't be keen on her returning.