Tara's the most entertaining, the most engaging, the most exciting, and her performances are the most moving. For me she's the only one with star quality.

Shaun's got a great face for radio, and is simply boring. Clearly when he was Barry in EastEnders he was typecast.

Tricia - trailer trash, too competitive, too aggressive, tried to do the dirty on Colin to vote off a strong competitor (stronger than Angellica anyway). Sure, Tara tried to vote Colin off too, but that's because she and Colin hate each other.

Ray is a good guy of limited singing ability, but I agree with Richard that last night's performance was perhaps the best by anyone in the competition. I think he'd be embarrassed to win outright though.

Colin is a likable guy who tries hard, but I don't see him winning the whole thing. In fact, I don't see him surviving tonight.

5th - Colin
4th - Ray
3rd - Tricia
Runner-up - Shaun
Winner - Tara
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Totally disagree. Tara is shambolic and needy as she is is all the celeb shows she appears in. Cant understand why people fall for the "vulnerability" nonsense.
Typical spoilt brat who can buy her way through life. As all the "problems and troubles" she has "battled with" in her life most ordinary people have to face far greater trials with far less support and they just get on and deal with it without all the attention seeking nonsense.
Sorry rant over but I do not find her at all entertaining. Give me Ray and Colin - who cant sing - for watchability any day.

Sorry - I totally disagree.

I just don't get the appeal of Tara. She is a rich young woman with every privilege; I don't find her endearing I find her childishness grating and embarrassing. She is manipulative (the way she cries all the time - it's a reality show not a torture chamber FFS).

Her performances are terrible - she cannot sing at all - she's by far the worst.

I appreciate she's had addiction problems but I cannot bear her.

I only dip in and out of this programme and the reason I do is to see how Tara is getting on, I would love her to win.

Agreed. She's all surface, and the whole business about her parents was ridiculous. It's just a charity talent show; at least the rest of them are having fun with it.

She can win this - posted this on another thread:



Show another side to yourself, Tara.

I like that suggestion.

I love it .... wish it could happen ...

I agree I cant really understand how or why Tara is so popular. Her performances are ok.... but despite the fact that the judges tend to say nice things about her.... she is often in the last few.

She seems so immature and attention seeking... always in the papers with her latest failed romance or project. Shes a serial reality show performer/presenter. Has shedloads of cash and has had a priveledged life few of us could dream of ..... why are we all so sorry for her?

She is complicated, I like that about her. I love the songs she has chosen to sing, she is great

Don't forget peeps she is perfoming the songs how she is directed to by the coaches and Kevin is not always right.

Tara sings with emotion and expression of the song if left to her own devices and sometimes she gets muddled because she has to concentrate on the moves Kevin wants which go against her instincts and this leads to her dropping concentration on the singing.

Sorry but this label really gets my goat. She can't help her upbring no more than an underpriveledged person can coming from some slums or other.

Nobody should be judged because of their background or money or lack of.

Tara has had to struggle to be accepted because of her background just as much , if not more , than some from less fortunate ones just because of peoples prejudices.

I was never a fan in the past but liking her the best out of this lot. At least she is showing real human vulnerability which doesn't look staged to me.

I think her imperfections are what makes a lot of people connect with her and she's shown quite a lot of those during the show.

I literally hold my breath every night that she is on, egging her on not to make a disaster out of it.

But it is those moments that I also find her very endearing and fragile. Some of the songs she's sung have been the most emotional out of all the contestants...and have brought a wee tear to my eye.

Me neither, I couldn`t abide her on the side show of IACGMO with her manic ways.

Now I see a completely different side to her and liking her very much

Hi Tissy Have you noticed the amount of people who have become Tara converts since this series started? Quite a few I think

Especially the ones who watch "live streaming" I might add.

I think your right. Most people who never liked her in the past and haven't watched any of the livefeed, haven't really changed their opinion of her and are still judging her as a spoilt rich kid.

I don't think it's her fault what background she was born into, but I do think she wants to be accepted as a person who has made mistakes and wants to learn from them. At least that is how she is coming across to me.

I agree she is so funny in the house and i don't think she realises it I know she's a bit crazy but in a good way, Considering her posh,spoilt background i think she's really down to earth and does'nt treat anyone no matter there background any different[well what i've seen of her in various programmes,interviews]TARA TO WIN

Well Fred MacAulay picked up on Tara's appeal. In his interview on BBC3 after being expelled he was raving about her, describing her as the star of the show. The other "students" range from nice guy Ray to not very nice Tricia, and from a very good singing voice (Tricia and Shaun) to not so good voice (Colin and Ray). But Tara offers so much more. She's extrovert, exciting, fun-loving, flighty, moody, a talented musician, and also totally unpredictable, and all these qualities are what make people listen to and watch her performances. She's the only one with star quality, with the X-factor, whatever you want to call it. Maybe she has these qualities as a result of her unique upbringing, but that's not her fault - that's just the way she is.

I'm the opposite. I kind of liked her before but now I'm realising just how priveleged her background is and, as a consequence, how spoilt she is: she's got a few character traits that are unappealing. The overblown praise is also annoying but, no, that's not really her fault.

Tara is pure entertainment on the live show and also on the streaming the best thing about this years Fa Tara to win

Oh poor poor Tara, if only I had had all the chances she did ...

And without necessarily having a good voice, anyone that can play a musical instrument reasonably well ought to have a basic ability to hold a note.

It just goes to show that if you can get yourself in the papers often enough you can be a star without actually doing anything. She might be more refined and so on, but she's no more use than Jade Goody, or a chocolate fireguard...

Her performance is the only one that really moves me - whatever her background & baggage - and that is why I vote for her every day.

I'm looking forward to her duet with Colin tonight.

Yeah I agree with most of what you say, especially about Tara and I do like Colin, I like/respect someone who can stand up for themselves but unfortunately I think you,re right and he will go tonight, should be Ray Stubbs, but think he is going for (and will get) the sympathy vote.

Oh boo-hoo at poor old Tara 'struggling to be accepted'. I shall reserve my sympathies for people with little or no money who struggle to make ends meet every day, not some spolit little Madam who spent untold amounts on Colombian marching powder and who has not shown any talent in anything.