Gary threatens to quit unless the show improves?
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Miserable Barlow wants to strip away the fun, something it's been lacking in anyway..
Barlow will attend a presentation at the end of the week with ITV and production companies Syco and Talkback before committing to a third year on the panel, The People reports.
"He knows what he wants to see so he will fly back from Los Angeles at the end of the week for a presentation.
"He wants to know that they're going to stop poking fun at the show, he wants serious singers and to know who will be on the judging panel.
"It's crunch time at the end of the week and you just can't call what it he is going to do. If he doesn't sign the deal it could leave Simon and his team with a huge problem."
Miserable Barlow wants to strip away the fun, something it's been lacking in anyway..
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The show seems to have a fascination with ballads (or ballids, for Tulisa) that is stupid. Adele is an exception but the majority of big selling artists nowadays aren't relying on ballads. There is no reason an uptempo song can't display the same vocal ability as a ballad.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/x_factor/4581160/Gary-Barlow-quit-x-factor-if-deadlock-drama-happens-again.html
Threatens to quit if Geri Halliwell Returns
http://metro.co.uk/2012/09/15/gary-barlow-threatens-to-quit-the-x-factor-if-geri-halliwell-returns-576444/
Threatens to quit show
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/x-factor/9657847/Gary-Barlow-to-quit-The-X-Factor.html
Denies threatening to quit show
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2228476/Gary-Barlow-denies-plans-quit-X-Factor-amidst-reports-Simon-Cowell-eyeing-return-UK-version.html
He makes empty threats, or rather, the X Factor PR machine churns out empty threats on his behalf.
This is probably just all PR stuff for the show that he's going along with.
The story may well be rubbish, but the mere idea that Barlow is in any position to dictate the direction of the show or give ultimatums is utterly ridiculous. And yet ITV pander to him.
he just wants bigger pay cheque he isnt going anywhere
Stand your grouind Gary...mthe time for joke acts is over, especially if they anything like Rylan!!!
Jedward was ok as was Wagner!!
Gary Barlow is spouting the lines fed to him by XF Central, that is all.
Agree with this, I certainly won't miss the boring pillock.
I genuinely think it's because they can't find anyone else suitable. Someone the viewer will easily recognise, who has authority as 'head judge', has a sizeable fan club and is fairly risk-free.
Does Barlow actually have any real authority on the panel these days? And the only risk they avoid in renewing his contract is the "risk" that someone might actually do the job well! A high risk candidate is better than someone 99% sure to put in a 2/10 performance for the third year in a row.
In 2001 Simon Cowell was entirely unknown to the public, sitting beside one of the most famous music producers in the country and something of a risk given his rather unusual character. And yet it worked.
I get where you're coming from with the bits I've highlighted above - but not with the authority as 'head judge' bit. To be honest - the 'head judge' has only been heavily mentioned (largely by Barlow himself) since he joined the show. Before that although we knew there was a head judge in Simon (by reason of the show is his baby) it was always just words only and in a very, very light-hearted way. We all know that neither Louis, Tulisa, Nicole or Gary are head judge - if so - when it comes to 'deadlock' Gary's vote would override the others (as Robin Cousins' vote on DOI does). Gary is no more a head judge than I am a head of state.
Besides - Mel B is the glaringly obvious choice. Imagine Louis Walsh outnumbered on the panel by women - it'd be great!