She had a UK #1 album with Simply Deep. She has had a string of top 10 singles over the years. She wasn't doing to badly for someone who didn't even live here.

She's didn't have a massive mainstream profile in the UK before X-Factor, but it's arguable that she didn't need it. When she turns up to promote in the UK, she does well and always has done. When Love Takes Over is just a fraction of her succes in the UK over the years.

Some stars are just "quietly" really succesful. You don't even notice how well they do, till you look at the chart placements. Kelly is one of those acts in the UK. Always does well, without really attracting a huge amount of attention (till now, anyway)

Has she had a SOLO other than Commander in the UK and it only charted at 9... Before the only hit was Work.. And that was in 2008. Since the release of Commander in the UK she's released 6 singles, and only one charted in the UK which was Forever & A Day and it reached #49. Here I Am only reached #126 in the UK, and her previous album only reached #23.

Granted she's had a lot of success when she's featured on another persons song, however, as a solo singer in the UK she's nowhere near as big as you're attempting to make out.

Yet she's nowhere the UK "flop" you are trying to make out, either. A lot of acts would be very happy with her solo chart record in the UK. Just saying.

She has not had a string of top ten hits at all in recent times her last 6 have failed to chart, that will change now of course with her UK profile

anyhow.... answering the question Who will regret X Factor 2011 more? Gary or Kelly? .
I think Gary will regret it the most... watching him squirm and admit to lying on national TV god...that was bad! IMO he looks very uncomfortable & unhappy on the panel which visually shows his regret.

What record, granted she did at one stage have a good record in the UK, but with every passing flop album and single it dilutes the magnitude of her succeses. I think she should stick to featuring on other people's songs.

I don't think anyone would be happy her recent record, she's essentially known as a 1 hit wonder as personally I don't listen to her back-catalogue as it isn't relevent to me. Commander is the only solo hit I know of in recent years. Without the X Factor she'll be lucky if her next single reaches the top 10.

Wrong.

Do you know how many singles Beyonce has thrown out there, that have failed to chart or majorly underperformed? Lots. It's a strategy that works for several American acts....throw a single out there, wait for the reaction, and if the reaction isn't great, don't waste any energy promoting it. Then move quickly onto the next one. It's literally a case of experimenting to see what sticks.

Kelly's is now pretty much following Beyonce's strategy, and it's going to be hit and miss by it's very nature. She'll literally chuck out a single, and if it gets a weak response, won't bother promoting it, and just make a new video for a new song. And like Beyonce, she'll target certain songs to certain markets. So while some singles might end up on UK i-tunes, they were never meant for a proper release here.

Bloody hell...2008 was only 3 years ago, not 30

And she was having top 4 UK hits then, before Commander. Her record, recent or otherwise, is fine. No need to over-egg the pudding

I concur with the above poster. I believe Gary will regret it the most and I think it's highly unlikely he will return next year. Or I hope for his sake that he won't return next year,

He admitted to lying about Frankie the previous week and then this week he couldn't hide his joy when Frankie had got through.

I'm actually saddened that he has possibly compromised his integrity for the X-Factor.

Why would either Kelly or Gary regret doing the show this thread is just silly. The fact that both now have raised there profiles even higher, are making mega bucks and either one of them are likely to win with one of there acts. I do not see where regret comes into it. We are at Week 4 and neither have behaved in a way that has dented their reputations unlike Tulisa and as per usual Louis.

Reality shows can make a career or tarnish it. Cheryl Cole has had a bit of both. Depends how sensitive you are. As I say Gary seems to be thriving on it, Kelly and her American 'positiveness' might be regreting it.

Who knows? I guess she'll keep everyone guessing until well into next year, but Simon would - I think - love to bring Cheryl back.

I love posting on this forum, but I really detest the way that the word "housewife" is bandied around so often as a derogatory term.

I was accused of being a "housewife" on here a few years ago and the poster was so insulting that he or she could have changed the word to "leper" and it wouldn't have sounded any more horrible.

I'm a Take That fan, I'm over 40, and I don't work. I'm not actually a housewife because I have other reasons for not being able to work, but people like me do still have a brain and are entitled to like any music that we damn well please.

Rant over.

So then it's not wrong..

Impossible to talk any sense in Kelly fanboy/girls like yourself.

I am appalled how - particularly - voters are categerized as 'the granny vote', 'the gay vote', 'the tweeny vote' and as you (nearly) say, 'the housewife vote'.

A vote, like an opinion, is all of the same worth, no more or less valid than any other.

Not sure why some people still want to keep pushing the claim that Kelly is a mess and nothing is working out for her. The tabloid press are going over the top regarding the ratings when they have not even been that bad. Sunday doing very well and the only period when they are low is when they share airtime with Strictly. Not sure what her chart positions have to do with anything. She has sold ten times the number of singles and albums as Danni and Cheryl put together, so not sure what that has to do with anything. Kelly remains a fair judge and the best mentor with all her acts still in and getting the right songs.

Thank you, I agree. It's no more OK than saying "the black vote" or "the asian vote", as if every black person, asian person, gay person, granny, 12 year old etc. has exactly the same taste in music. Grrr......

Are you watching the same show as me...? For G Barlow to sit on the panel has seriously dented his Integrity!