Actually, I find the judges arguing quite entertaining, and I honestly think people have the intelligence to see past all that and make their own judgements on the artists. I don't really think that it will impact on the results. However, I do hate it when the judges get really nasty because of what I believe is their personal feelings about the judges. (I'm thinking about Sharon's comments to Steve - I love Sharon, really do, but I winced at her comments tonight). Sometimes I wonder how much of their comments are actually based on their assessment of performance and how much is "have a dig at your least favourite judge". I don't always like Simon but I do think he rises above the personal rivalry to a degree and comments on the performance as he sees it. I do feel for the artists though, being in the middle of all this. Sometimes it seems as if nothing an artist 'belonging' to one judge does will please another judge, and that's when I squirm a bit. But, as I say, I think we are all intellogent enough to get past that. What really, really bothers me is when someone is being mis-styled, mis-managed, mis-advised - this after all is probably their last chance (although thinking of Darius I may be wrong!) - and it wasn't their fault they got allocated to Louis. (Ooops, sorry, didn't mean to get personal!!!)