Yes that's right, it's being recorded sunday afternoon. I don't know if there is a thread on this or if its even worth mentioning.

So that's both Ed and 1D pre-recorded 9 (the boys will be in the US)....but Little Mix will be performing live!

It's because he has a strenuous dance routine to perform at the same time...

He sounds exactly the same live anyway. So it makes no odds

I think when they mean pre recorded he is singing live in the studio at another time and then the video is shown on the night

I love Ed. I think he's amazing

At least the audience will get into the studio sooner!

They always prerecord guest acts. They usually do the song/dance twice before the show starts, though sometimes they are recorded on a different day.

They don't 'always' pre-record.. remember when Whitney's dress started to fall off?

Actually I've never thought about this...you must be slightly disappointed if you go to a results show where the majority, if not all the guest artists are pre-recorded, you're literally just seeing a group performance and then the results then.

A question for anyone who's been or knows - do they play the pre-recorded guest performance out for those in the studio to watch?

Not really. There's gonna be a different audience!


At BGT the VTs were played on the screen on the stage so I guess it would be the same at X Factor, although there's random production people setting up the stage at the same time!

so only Little Mix LIVE on Sunday then

I think that kinda makes sense, this is the first time so far this year they put 3 guests on the same show, was wondering if they were gonna scrape the group performance.

OK, so I just went to Ed Sheerans official site and I still have no idea who he is.....

I hate Ed Sheeran's music. Since when did he dance around on stage? I thought he stood with a guitar and sang songs about baby bumps. Shudder.

Wasn't Taylor Swift recorded the day before she appeared on the results show a couple of weeks back?

What`s that got to do with him performing on the show?

If you were to hear one of his songs maybe you`d recognise him, if not where have you been the past year Lolz i`d say (the a team, lego house, & drunk) were his biggest songs this past year, Lego house still being my fave

It pathetic that they cannot be bothered to perform live

I assume it`s their schedules clashing with other appearances etc... not that they simply can not be bothered to show up and do it "live"

When you see acts playing "live" on shows like Graham Norton and Jonathan Ross they're often miming playing the instruments to a recording they made earlier that day in the same studio - but the singing is live. No idea why they do it this way, I assume it's the programme makers that want it.

That reminds me, there was talk many weeks ago of a special pre-recorded performance taking place. Most people thought that it would be Adele performing the Skyfall theme song. As this hasn't happened, do we know what it was in the end?

it was taylor swift in the end.

she came to london to promote her album and perform at the teen choice awards. x factor also recorded a performance and it was shown on the results show the next sunday.

X factor twitter says one direction will be performing Saturday

Because someone said he had to be pre-recorded because he was moving around a lot - but whenever I've seen him he just stands there.