X Factor 2008 - Week 4 - Alexandra Burke flying high

She is 25/1 to go out of X Factor this week? I don't think so. Make that 500/1, Alexandra Burke is on fire!

If a female act doesn't win X Factor this year, I will quite literally eat my own feet. Any of a number of the women are potential winners, not least of all the magnificent Alexandra Burke. Her Big Band performance last week of Candy Man was simply brilliant.

A great Big Band song which I think you'll agree, suited her very well. Expect another great performance this week where Miss Burke will be in full Disco mode.

In a few weeks time, the X Factor competition is going to get extremely tight.

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X Factor 2008 - Rachel Hylton is Feeling Good

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life, and she's looking good!

If you're looking for the eventual winner of the X Factor 2008, then don't completely rule out Rachel Hylton. She sure stepped up a gear on Week 3 Big Band Night and delivered this powerful performance,

With a voice as strong has hers is and the latest Bond film about to be released, it was easy to imagine Rachel, one day, singing the title theme music. What a Diva, a great performance delivered with confidence and attitude.

This was the first time in the competition she had really performed a song that suited her voice and boy, did she deliver.

Rachel Hylton is mentored by Dannii Minogue who is yet to lose an act from the contest. Her other two acts are Ruth Lorenzo and Daniel Evans who survived the bottom two sing off against Scot Bruton.

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X Factor 2008 - Week 4 - Diana Vickers 7/4 Favourite to win

Big Band week on the X Factor was perhaps going to be a week when favourite, Diana Vickers, was going to struggle to match the style of the genre to her voice.

Think again,

Smile was a fantastic song choice for her. One of the more gentler of the Big Band style numbers, this slower tempo song was one she could really get hold of.

Another great performance saw her favouritism in the betting market strengthen even further down to 7/4. When Vickers sings, the sound is just magical and there is no one in the pop industry today that is quite like her.

Her biggest threat on Big Band night was perhaps not being knocked out the competition, but instead, falling off that swing! If Ricky Gervais stunt double, Daniel Evans, had been on it, the whole thing surely would have crashed into the audience. Thankfully there was no swing in Daniel's performance whatsoever.

Easy to like and hard to oppose, I can't wait to see what she performs for this weeks Disco night, another one that in theory does not really suit her unique singing voice.

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X Factor 2008 - Week 3 - Ruth Lorenzo Back in Business

If anyone can threaten Cheryl Cole's acts dominance of this years X Factor competition, then surely it must be the rapidly improving Ruth Lorenzo.

Facing the bottom two sing-off last week, she then found a totally different gear. A mind-blowing performance of Purple Rain, and then this week, the classic, Summer Time.

A fantastic performance, it would have been a travesty if she had gone out last week. A class act all round, the odds on Ruth Lorenzo to win surely must shorten come Monday. Before the Saturday's week 3 performances, she was in fact quoted as second favourite to go out! Incredible, how wrong they were.

Daniel Evans and Scott Bruton battled in the bottom two instead. When the music stopped, it was goodbye to former Pontins blue coat, Bruton.

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X Factor - Week 3 - Scott Bruton out

Scott Bruton has become the third act to be voted out of X Factor 2008.

This week was Big Band night and it is only when you see acts having to face the bottom two sing-off for survival, you can see how much that this contest really means to them. This competition is tough. Very tough.

Scott's performance of "That's Life" saw him fall into the bottom two against Daniel Evans. Evans gave a very emotional and heart-felt performance of his survival song which was enough to see him go through.

Louis had the final judges vote on the matter and you could tell it was an extremely hard decision for him to make. In a week where the performances have been arguably the strongest ever, it was always going to be tough deciding who would be the one to go.

Simon Cowell said it, in other years, Scotts performance would have been strong enough to go through.

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X Factor 2008 - Week 3 - Who is going out tonight?

Tonight is Week 3 of the Live performances of X Factor 2008. This week is Big Band Week! So it could be a challenge for some. It will interesting to see how contest favourite, Diana Vickers' unique style is altered to fit in with this brand of music.

Who will be eliminated? Well, as usual that depends largely on the voting viewing public. Here is how the market assesses each acts chances of being voted out the show.

Daniel Evans 13/8
Ruth Lorenzo 11/4
Scott Bruton 7/2
Rachel Hylton 5/1
J L S 14/1
Eoghan Quigg 25/1
Austin Drage 33/1
Alexandra Burke 33/1
Laura White 50/1
Diana Vickers 50/1

Louis Walsh branded him a Ricky Gervais lookalike, but I'm sure that hasn't anything to do with Daniel Evans now being favourite to go out. Well mostly sure anyway.

Ruth Lorenzo featured in the bottom two last week, but her powerful voice should favour a Big backing band, so she could very well escape the sing off. I'm sensing we could have a shock result this week.

Louis will be praying that his last remaining act, JLS, stay in. If they go out,Mr Walsh would have lost all of his acts in the opening three weeks and will be ribbed by Simon Cowell possibly for eternity.

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