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Gary threatens to quit unless the show improves?
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s103/...-x-factor.html Quote:
Barlow will attend a presentation at the end of the week with ITV and production companies Syco and Talkback before committing to a third year on the panel, The People reports. Miserable Barlow wants to strip away the fun, something it's been lacking in anyway..
"He knows what he wants to see so he will fly back from Los Angeles at the end of the week for a presentation. "He wants to know that they're going to stop poking fun at the show, he wants serious singers and to know who will be on the judging panel. "It's crunch time at the end of the week and you just can't call what it he is going to do. If he doesn't sign the deal it could leave Simon and his team with a huge problem." |
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The door is open, he can leave whenever he wants to..............
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He's threatened to quit loads of times ......
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Haha and IMO he makes the show worse
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In other words, the tail wants to wag the dog.
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Catch-22 situation here...
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Hmmm bittersweet either way.
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Let him go. He is incredibly boring anyway and his overriding need to stamp down on anything remotely interesting is bringing it down.
The show seems to have a fascination with ballads (or ballids, for Tulisa) that is stupid. Adele is an exception but the majority of big selling artists nowadays aren't relying on ballads. There is no reason an uptempo song can't display the same vocal ability as a ballad. |
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The problem is I think barlows just a bit too serious for this show, would be much better suited to the voice, at the end of the day he might not appreciate the joke acts, but it can't be denied that the likes of rylan and jedward have faired a lot better than the majority of acts on the show , and that's without me starting on barlows very own joke act that he chose himself frankie cocozza
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Threatens to quit if deadlock drama happens again
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ens-again.html Threatens to quit if Geri Halliwell Returns http://metro.co.uk/2012/09/15/gary-b...eturns-576444/ Threatens to quit show http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...-X-Factor.html Denies threatening to quit show http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...K-version.html He makes empty threats, or rather, the X Factor PR machine churns out empty threats on his behalf. |
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He won't quit. If he leaves the show it'll be because he's been dropped. He's not going to willngly walk away from Cowell's pay cheque and the exposure that the show gives him personally.
This is probably just all PR stuff for the show that he's going along with. |
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Thank god, his voice draaaaags like this soooo much , and if he leaves that would be absolutely fantastic! (Imagine that in his voice haha) No as a song writer and artist I think he's great, but judge? He's boring, I'd love someone like Michael bulble!
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Please quit! You won't be missed!
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If Syco have any sense they'll tell him that they're going to add more joke acts this year and try and chase him out the door. It seems ITV are determined to keep him for some bizzare reason.
The story may well be rubbish, but the mere idea that Barlow is in any position to dictate the direction of the show or give ultimatums is utterly ridiculous. And yet ITV pander to him. |
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didnt he threaten to quit if louie came back last year
he just wants bigger pay cheque he isnt going anywhere |
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Is it a threat or a promise? arrogant, self-important idiot. He is totally dispensible, what makes him think he has the power to sway the show his way?
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I wish he would quit.
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Hope he doesn't quit as we want to see the show back to how it was at the start...serious acts auditioning and operforming to gain some credibuility/recognition!!
Stand your grouind Gary...mthe time for joke acts is over, especially if they anything like Rylan!!! Jedward was ok as was Wagner!! |
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Please quit Gary.
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And $imon Cowell's PR department goes into overdrive again.
Gary Barlow is spouting the lines fed to him by XF Central, that is all. |
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If Syco have any sense they'll tell him that they're going to add more joke acts this year and try and chase him out the door. It seems ITV are determined to keep him for some bizzare reason.
The story may well be rubbish, but the mere idea that Barlow is in any position to dictate the direction of the show or give ultimatums is utterly ridiculous. And yet ITV pander to him. |
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If Syco have any sense they'll tell him that they're going to add more joke acts this year and try and chase him out the door. It seems ITV are determined to keep him for some bizzare reason.
The story may well be rubbish, but the mere idea that Barlow is in any position to dictate the direction of the show or give ultimatums is utterly ridiculous. And yet ITV pander to him. |
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I genuinely think it's because they can't find anyone else suitable. Someone the viewer will easily recognise, who has authority as 'head judge', has a sizeable fan club and is fairly risk-free.
A high risk candidate is better than someone 99% sure to put in a 2/10 performance for the third year in a row. In 2001 Simon Cowell was entirely unknown to the public, sitting beside one of the most famous music producers in the country and something of a risk given his rather unusual character. And yet it worked. |
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I genuinely think it's because they can't find anyone else suitable. Someone the viewer will easily recognise, who has authority as 'head judge', has a sizeable fan club and is fairly risk-free.
Besides - Mel B is the glaringly obvious choice. Imagine Louis Walsh outnumbered on the panel by women - it'd be great! |
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I purposely put inverted commas around 'head judge', but he has that role on the panel. I know that doesn't mean much. I've said myself on other threads that Simon was an unknown but that was way back and I think ITV need a face the public know today. A Barlow or a Buble or a Keating. They wouldn't take a risk on a British version of LA Reid, which I would prefer.
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A high risk candidate is better than someone 99% sure to put in a 2/10 performance for the third year in a row.