Originally Posted by DinkyDee:
“I wish she got the chance to finish, must be so frustrating for her.
As for the audience clapping in support of the fact she spoke out about not choosing the song: my take is there are people in the audience who encourage clapping and cheering surely that was a reaction to try and stop her going on to saying anything against the show. sorry if thats too cynical...”
The audience clapped very quickly after she said it though, it seemed like an instant reaction so they're very convincing seat fillers if that's the case - I doubt it.
It's so unfair that this happens but we all know from past series that this is the case. I remember the pair of Scouse boys who sang and played guitar had a much more prolonged rant in the same situation on the same subject. I saw one of them stacking shelves again in my local Tesco after that (got a picture with him

) which kind of told me what the consequences were. Wish I'd asked him about it.
I think there are other cases of this this series, too. I doubt Gay and Alan would have chosen Phantom of the Opera and Paul's very bad medley seemed too different to his audition to be his choice.