It was a good opportunity in that he may have improved, he may have picked up some helpful tips along the way. I don't think he would have made a credible pop star, but other people may have thought differently.

Being discussed for being a knob isn't the best publicity.

well said
spot on

I think that more or less sums up Frankie's 'journey'

Hes shite if you are above 13 and don't have a vagina

That can't be right, I'm 52 and I've definitely never had a vagina. Face it, music is just one of those fields where, as Howard Devoto observed years ago, some will pay for what others pay to avoid.

You mean we got the last laugh because he won't be on our TV screens again!

Frankie reminds me of Peter Brame from Fame Academy 2. He couldn't sing either and thought he was the dog's bollocks, too. I remember seeing him "perform" in a club in Birmingham a few weeks after FA ended. He came on late, drunk as a skunk and part way through his first song, he tried to jump off the stage and crowd surf. Unfortunately for him, the crowd were having none of it and everyone just steeped out the way. He went flat on his face and had to be dragged off by the bouncers!

That's Frankie's future. He'll get a few bookings off the back of the X Factor exposure. But once the show is over and everyone returns to normality, organisers will quickly realise nobody likes him and he's not worth booking. By the time next year's X Factor rolls around, he'll be consigned to history.

I'm pretty sure we can bet that Frankie will blow any earnings he does get, too. So once the events dry up, he'll be straight back to square one. Then good luck to him trying to find a regular job where you have to work for a living.

If he has any hope of earning a future living, we might see him turning up on Celebrity Big Brother or I'm a Celebrity... but then after his behaviour already got him kicked off one TV show, would they want him? He's a liability most show's wouldn't want.

I doubt very much he is charging £3k a gig as it's probably a fee set by Industry Music.

They often sign-up X-Factor contestants once they've left the show and the client list reflects it.

We'll see ..

That amount of publicity won't go to loss.

Nobody will remember him in 6 months time he is one of those "I'm a nobody but you have seen me on last"