People (especially the judges) keep throwing that word around as some kind of excuse for Rylan's inclusion in the show, and the way they use this so called justification, undermines the rest of the show - so is the X Factor not entertainment without morons like Wagner, Jedward and Rylan?

Entertainment is Ella hitting that Mariah high note. Entertainment is Union J surprising everyone after working hard all week and winning the audience over with a decent performance. Entertainment is James Arthur sending those shivers down your spine because you know he means every word he is singing.

Britain has moved on from the likes of Rylan. And on that note, we have also moved on from Louis Walsh. Not. Relevant. Anymore.

Talk about stuck in the 90's Louis.

Exactly, entertainment for me is GOOD SINGING.

Sorry but the X factor is a Light ENTERTAINMENT television show.

What part of my post denied that it was a light entertainment show? My point was that the judges keep banging on about Rylan being entertaining as though, the other contestants are not entertaining enough with actual talent.

Your OP illustrates how we all have different opinions on entertainment. James never entertains me, for example.

Shite ENTERTAINMENT.

If you don't like the word entertainment, you'd think you'd avoid an entertainment show . . .

I get what you mean, but surely no one thinks the X Factor is a show purely about who the best potential star is any more?

Yes, because One Direction have not acheived any type of worldwide success at all now have they?

This^ ....the pretence has long gone

I look to real music for good singing, I look to X Factor for a laugh and a bit of faux drama.

Long live RylanStyle.

It is to singing and music what WWF is to sports.

Well its about time this country finally moved on from the joke X Factor acts and Z list celebrities/No Way Is Essex rubbish.

The Olympics proved we are capable of so much more then that.

I am a 24 year old gay male by the way. Lets move on Britain.

what 'entertains' people is completely, completely subjective.

jahmene's incessant giggling totally entertains me, james arthur bores the shite out of me.

everyone will have different aspects of the show that entertains and doesn't entertain them.

/sense

It is a tv entertainment show.

It's annoying because they constantly contradict themselves. They hold Leona as their X Factor baby that everyone should aspire to (as they should), but then when they let someone average through, they fob it off as entertainment. Make your mind up.

that's entertainment!! lolz!!

the more the annoyance... the more the contradiction... the better the ratings...

You sound like a barrel of laughs, wtf does any of this have to do with the Olympics? If the show were full of people like Kye you would be the only one watching.

It irritates me the way the judges are INSISTING that Rylan is entertaining. Obviously the public don't find him that entertaining since he was in the bottom 2 in the first week. It's becoming obvious with every series that goes by that the public are over joke acts. Frankie Cocozza also hit the bottom 2 in the first week of public voting last year. People don't find that crap amusing anymore. It's just cheesy, camp nonsense that is on every channel.

Johnny Robinson was 0.1% away from topping the vote one week so your selective argument falls flat there.

For me I watch the show for the good singers first and foremost. Ok if an act is slightly weaker at singing and compensates with an interesting performance so be it. The problem I have with the joke acts like Rylan is that its all too contrived now.

"Gangnam Style" is a Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with the Gangnam district of Seoul, where people are trendy, hip and exude a certain supposed "class". Ironically Rylan is doing the same, pretending to be an entertaining singer. How that song was love and heartache I dont know.

I generally hate the joke acts but I have to say Rylan is a poor mans Kitty. She actually put effort into her performances and was actually decent in some of them. Rylan is like a big brother 13 contestant going through the motions on the way to his towie "career".