Looks purple and gold to me I think purple is a new one lol

LOL😂 the dress is worldwide

That's great, thanks for letting us know


Nice to see that the Platt family is making your day great, hehe And good luck with moving to Spain!

Thanks I need Factor 50 Suncream because it be hot this weekend but I don't care I just go swimming 😄

I will still post links to Newcastle Don't you worry child, that vocal masterclass comment got me very interested in that one

Anyway, here is Let it go from Glasgow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzmSDmRLsLo

And here it is, uploaded 14 minutes ago: Glasgow version of Don't you worry child, I guess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1KjASjzllM
She sounds great, how come she hasn't been signed yet...

How will I know, Glasgow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRv5PqcVwOo

She has finally improved at 2:01 on the word "whenever", I was waiting for that

Hello. I liked Lauren on The X Factor. I thought her voice was brilliant, I was disappointed when she was voted out.

However, I do not think people should be worrying about why she hasn't been signed. Look at Luke from 2013 X Factor. He wasn't signed until this year. Lauren will get signed, but it may not be straight away.

Hi there. I am surprised to hear that, I thought until now that Luke was signed by RCA during his x factor tour. Thanks for stopping by and saying that, you gave me a lot more hope that she will sign a contract for sure sooner or later even if she doesn't get signed before the end of March

Unless I have it wrong, but I only read about Luke being signed last month on this website. Lauren came fourth, so was still a popular act and has a big fan base. I am sure she will be signed, so I hope nobody gives up hope.

Great job lol!


I'm definitely not losing hope now. I predict she will make an announcement in May, but I'm still hoping to see it in March just like probably the rest of her fans.

I loved her voice during that part you pointed out.


We must be patient, this will happen soon. And that was in my opinion a really good vocal performance.


Do you think that just might be her best version of that song so far?

My birthday is may 30th

If that day arsenal can win the fa cup and Lauren is signed then it will be one of my best birthdays ever

I am not sure if that version is her best or not, but that part I mentioned certainly is in my opinion, these 3 or 4 days off seemed to be very useful for her


I wouldn't mind seeing an announcement on April 30th (my birthday), if it doesn't happen earlier.

My Birthday is the 30th May too.

That would be funny if all that happened in one day.

I just found How will I know from Newcastle I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPkmqde00HU , in comparison the one I linked earlier is a bit better Tomorrow I will link today's Glasgow videos if I can find any.

Lauren is just perfect

I love the name lauren because of her

If I ever have a daughter Id like to call her Lauren although Lauren Whippy. Not sure it goes haha. The joy of having a stupid surname

Hehe, it is an interesting surname (word weeping comes to mind every time).
In my case the name Lauren would fit well with my very rare surname (it is apparently very common in some other country, but only a few people in my country have it). Unfortunately, as long as I live in this country, I couldn't afford to name my daughter Lauren if I will ever even have a kid (I don't like kids), many people would mispronounce that name here.

I don't mind kids for about an hour.

If I ever did have a Daughter though I don't know if I would call her Lauren to be honest, I don't hate the name it just doesn't standout too much for me personally.

Anyway I'm gonna share a little information about the series to the fellow Platters (and anybody else looking in) yes I probably need more of a life, but here it goes.

Ben Haenow - He was ranging between 4th and 3rd in the first 3 live shows, he comes out in the Leather in live show 4, and he tops the vote and never looked back.

Fleur East - Fleur I think was some of the female audience is initial target to eliminate of the girls in the series, but a loyal fanbase on top of Simon's hype managed to send her from someone that was gonna probably come 5th or 6th, to someone that bagged 2nd without touching a bottom two, but giving her all that hype was still enough to build up an anti vote to stop Fleur from winning.

Andrea Faustini - Topped the first 3 live shows, comes out in gold in live show 4 and he kept falling back, plus him being Italian and not muscle toned seemed to be an issue for him when it came to the top 7 onwards.

Lauren Platt - Lauren always had connection issues with the Housewife demographic, despite Simon playing her down in the first 3 live shows, despite the connection issues though she still bagged 2nd place in all of them, then in live show 4 Lauren gets given a bad VT, bad dancing, and even worse was not being played down at all, she was dressed in a really overly sexualised way which antagonised a lot of the female demographics, and it sent Lauren from 2nd place from the first 3 live shows to 4th place, she did pick up to 3rd place for most of the series after that, but you could just tell that certain demographics was never willing to give her a chance (hitting the bottom two after Don't You Worry Child proved that point)

Stereo Kicks - Boybands tend to never win anyway because a lot demographics tend to find them quite cheesy and dull, but what made Stereo Kicks struggle more hence 3 bottom two trips, was that there was too many of them, and not enough of them was fancied enough to sustain their votes, it took for them to have rebounds and good nights to actually poll high in the voting, which we all saw when their vote leak was so erratic.

Stevi Ritchie - He did the usual joke act thing really, there's not really much to comment on here.

Only The Young - Now these are interesting to evaluate, despite being incredibly popular on the Forums they never quite hit it off with the general public, I feel that a lot of the general public never really got to know OTY personally enough, I bet if you asked them to name any of them in the group the general public wouldn't know any of the names, and some of the male and female demographics did the usual and got jealous of their own gender I think so being a mixed group they had it hard from the off in the voting, being 13th in the live show 1, being 11th in live show 3, and even with Monster Mash in live show 4 they only came 5th in the votes despite it being one of the 3 best performances of the night and it being their rebound night, and was in the bottom three in the voting up until they left after live show 4.

Jay James - He had a loyal Housewife demographic voting for him, hence why he was in the middle in most of the votes except for live show 2 where he came 5th out of 14, which you could argue was elevated because he had the pimp slot on the night, but the ultimate things that was hurting Jay James was that I didn't know of a single male viewer that even liked him, and then he wasn't even uniting the female demographic as most of them all went to Ben.

Paul Akister - He starts off great, he comes 3rd in both live show 1 and live show 2, however once his hype dies down he comes 4th in live show 3, however Simon really threw him under a Bus when he questioned Paul's attitude in live show 4 which saw Paul drop another place to 5th, but the damage really was done by the time live show 5 came around and knocked him to 9th out of 9 and despite beating Jay James in every other vote, they decided to take it to deadlock to eliminate Paul.

Lola Saunders - When styled like an Adele wannabe she bags 6th place in the first two live shows, in live show 3 & 4 where she has her hair down she comes 9th out of 12, and 10th out of 11.

Jack Walton - To be fair even though I liked him, I feel that the public was completely fair with Jack's performances as Mel B was killing him at the lives with the song choices that she was giving him.

Jake Quickenden - He lost a lot of his votes to Ben, and he just wasn't treated seriously at all by Simon.

Chloe Jasmine - Alternative acts always tend to struggle at the lives, plus I think her personality was off putting to people so Simon exploited that and got her eliminated very early.

Steph Nala - She got to live show 2 so we all knew who got her there.

Overload Generation - They just wasn't good enough, and them being picked over groups that had actually made the Judges Houses probably made the public be against them immediately.

Blonde Electra - Not very talented on top of no home territory killed them off from the very start I feel.

But I made this just to show to anyone that I've ever debated this with on here, and on other Forums is that Simon really does pull a lot of strings on how the public feels, and also that people do care about looks a hell of a lot more than they like to claim.

I don't think simon manipulated us as much as we all think but he definitely did with andrea Paul and especially lauren,

He isn't even good at it anymore. He's too obvious these days

All the ones you mentioned beat all of his Overs in the first live show, he didn't have to manipulate as much with anybody else as they had no chance at winning.

Simon was my worst judge in that last series, he was dire in series 7 as well for keep saving Katie Waissel, but the rigging in this last series for the whole of his Overs category was appalling in my opinion, and sadly the public are still enthralled by anything that Simon says.

I just think the way he treated a 17 year old girl and a 20 year old Italian boy in a strange country for him is unnacceptible

Totally agree but would say that less and less people are enthralled by anything Simon says hence the declining viewing figures which I suspect are going to take a big hit next season. Hopefully!

Oh I agree with you that Simon is losing pull over the majority of the British public, but a lot of the ones still watching still buy into his rubbish sadly.

That was a fun read, thanks for taking your time to write this. At least the voters got the top 3 right in the first 2 shows in my opinion.


That Dark horse VT really helped with the votes drop and a loss of some fans.


I wonder if the producers tell the judges to take these joke acts to the live shows. And I am still surprised he managed to get more public votes than Andrea.


For me even the best song choices wouldn't have changed how I feel about him. I don't mind hearing that noise when a any singer takes a breath, but I kind of hated him because he was able to take those breathing noises to the next level and make them sound as annoying as possible, he almost sounded like a pig to me every time he took a breath.



People don't always listen to him, but they apparently did this year, though. I wonder where in the top 8 Ben and Fleur would have finished if Simon wasn't their mentor.