One good comment from Simon and suddenly a nothing act that nobody remembered going into tonights semi wins and is now already one of the favs to win....he manages to pull the wool over everyones eyes again.

NO ONE is going to tell me that going into tonight they thought New Bounce were anything special or had a hope of winning, and thats even if they remembered them in the first plce.

exactly!! i agree, i dont think new bounce are the next best thing at all! there rubbish and are jus singing good popular songs. simon jus pushed them through and down our throats because he wants to make money off...the new jls = wtf!?

He's a ****

with the bookies they went from 20/1 after their performance and before simon's comments.....to 3/1 within 1 minute of simon's complements.I think your right.Many of the British public are thick stupid and the bookies know it

I hope tonight is the night the public turn round and stick two fingers up at Simon Cowell. This show has become a massive joke.

George Sampson mulitplied by four .Mediocre talent , young boys , cute hair and the girls vote for them

no he just knows what the majority enjoy and he gets it spot on every time

Well the majority on here dont like them.

He wasn't spot on with Steve Brookstien was he.

i admit i missed them tonight but they were blo*dy awful at the audition, but i knew they were going to get through when Amanda asked if they had another song they could sing

nope! he's the master manipulator

He's like a puppetmaster leading the masses.

I notice New Bounce had a full choir on their backing track : has every other singing act been allowed this amount of backing vocals?

He reminds me of the original "Big Brother" from George Orwell's 1984.....whatever he says seems to be gospel for a lot of people.

Well when 20 million people in these lands tune into X-factor is there any bloody wonder?

Remember Connected. No, thought not.

Didn't think New Bounce were much better tonight than their audition, but credit to them for coming out and taking a bit of a risk rather than playing it safe like so many of the singers do. I think though had Two and a Half Men been towards the end of the show the result may have been different.

didn't millions vote for that steve then yes the majority did want him, not simon or their fault he couldn't follow through

I'm only half joking btw : he's the nearest thing we have to an Orwellian arch-manipulator.

Or had their song picked for them by the producers? There is a hell of a lot of manipulation going on on this show by Cowell and his buddies.

Agree. They already have their own official site on Twitter linked by the Official X Factor site on there.

Good to know Cowell puts as much effort into manipulating BGT as he does with the X Factor

Shame those same millions didn't buy Steve Brookstien's records.

Simon has to be very careful when he jumps. He wears elevator shoes.

Notice he has his Kronies (planted audience members) behind him again.. who seem to dictate who gets the standing ovations and whoop up the audience behind them.

That's why I got my bet in at 20/1, Cowell is so predictable just had a feeling he would make them seem like the big new boyband. Dont think they'll win, sure he'll try dam hard to make it happen- that or Ronan whoever can make the most money really.

Thought they did. He got his number1 album and single.. then got dropped.

I get the impression that if Simon started raving about Popeye then her Majesty would be getting a faceful of bulging eyeballs.