Apparently every single person who works in not just the X-Factor but the media as a whole still feels the need to bleat on about Ella being sixteen. Lorraine Kelly did it just now. I mean, what is this all about? WE KNOW!!! YOU DON'T NEED TO KEEP REMINDING US! WE HONESTLY GET IT!!!

It's ludicrous and beyond insulting and just plain weird.

she is JUST 16?? blimey!!

"I Am Sixteen" should be the title of her debut single

What if she's seventeen by the time it comes out?

(I Used To Be) Sixteen

Very good.

Please. We don't need another Adelesque age reference naming.

And she's gone now, perhaps its time to get over it so you can now safely watch the show without ever being told this again. All good things and such.

Brilliant.

Of course Adele never mentions her age. What are her album titles called again?

The title of her first single will be 'Sixteen Going On Seventeen' lol

Really? Only SIXTEEN! I would never have guessed! They were always very secretive about her age, but I never thought she was THAT young! SIXTEEN! SIXteen!

What a depressing 16 year old. She shouldve been an emo.

You never would think she was the same age as Diana Vickers and Amelia Lily when they were on the show..

How about Sweet Sixteen?

they just cant think of another comment so they just keep going "you're only 16"

No other 16 year old has been able to sing before. She's amazing. A freak of nature.

I'll "get over" it when the media does.

FFS this is really getting old now....

It's a shame that though she is only 16, they kept styling her so much older.

How long has she been only 16?

She's actually a fairly typical 16 year old talent show contestant, at the same level as most of the others we have seen.

Where they totally lost the plot was trying to present her as 'a world class singer', 'the new Adele', 'the best female on the show since Leona Lewis' etc......insane over the top hyping from people who know nothing about talent.

16 isn't that old.. it's quite young actually

forgive her for what she has done, because she's young yeah she's young

I see what you did there....did you get some help?

nope.. all by myself