Sharon even crying during her performance.

Ultimately in each category they will simply pimp the one person and throw the others under the bus.

They know that Shelly will be up again next week, so just leaves Sam for Sharon. That's the overs sorted

yeah, it probably wasn't that much of a secret to her

If Shelly is up against other contestants than she'll be out

So the public put Lorna above Shelley last night, but it's Lorna who goes tonight! Why bother voting if the Judges are going to change it?

I said she'll be the 1st one out before the live shows started

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This.

It's always been between the bottom two acts, though.

^ Yeah but we didn't used to know which of the two had pulled in the least votes, apart from in deadlock situations. It would be better for the judges to keep in the one who's more popular with the voters.

10 minutes isn't that much of an influence on popularity... I assume it was VERY close between the majority of acts.