Cannnes, St Tropez, Barbados and Ireland

A lovely country to visit but why doesn't he ever take his category any further?

Looks like it was Easyjet too.

Coz he is a cheap Irish ****. Talk about making no effort for his acts.

*tumbleweed*

Why don’t they just do it in the UK, what is the point in flying around its pretty pointless.

Funnily enough, I don't think Louis actually pays for them.

Good thing Danni was in St.Tropez Rachel wouldn't be let in America...

yeah louis needs to expand to other places, bit obvious to the groups who they had

is it cos of her drugs issues ?

Because otherwise they might be spotted, and then the public would know who's through. Some of us do anyway but the producers try to keep it under wraps.

I agree, think how un green this must be also why waste so much money on this when it could be spent elsewhere?

Because it would be a bit dull and underwhelming having Cheryl take her groups to her parents house in Newcastle? It adds grandeur to the show and makes it bigger and creates a dramatic setting.

In series 1, they did keep it local. Louis still went to Dublin, but Sharon just took hers to the Osbournes estate in Birmingham and Simon had them at his London mansion. But they have been trying to make these stages bigger and more dramatic for years as Simon mentioned in a recent interview.

its always ireland-the look on their faces said it all really

Lol I was just thinking that! I would be well miffed off if I had to go to Ireland when everyone else got Barbados and St Tropez!

Louis is such a cheap skate. Why Ireland? Sharon used to take hers to Hollywood and last one year Simon took his to Miami.

I laughed so loud when I saw their faces upon opening the letter that said Ireland!!!

But actually out of all the places on todays show, I think I would have most like to have sung in that castle. Not nice singing in hot weather. I would have melted.

LOL, their reactions were so funny. I laughed out loud.

C14E is right, they do it for grandeur.

They need to send them to a country that is "associated" in some way with the judge - Ireland is the obvious choice for Louis.

And he must like it - I mean if he insisted on taking his acts somewhere else, I'm sure - given he's been a judge for the full 5 series - ITV would allow him to do so.

lol it was funny, long silence pause...very unimpressed contestants lol

It was a cheap laugh when compared to the other destinations and it's obvious who is going to be their mentor
if they want a real dud destination they should tell them they are going to Peckham*

*apologies to all peckham residents haha

They're more likely to be thankful that they're in the final 24.

They should be happy to go to Baghdad should it be needed.

Now is not the time to get pretentious.

Fair point but Baghdad?!?!?

You honestly think the judges(aside from Simon) pay for any of this? It's not his fault.

Didn't Sharon take her group to the Dorchester one year or did I just dream that one up?

Did it have something to do with her home in LA being damaged by fire?

I've probably got this all wrong ...lol

Just done a bit of googling and I didn't dream it .... 2006 they went to the Dorchester

http://xfactorblog.co.uk/2006/10/06/...x-factor-2006/

Wasn't that because Sharon's house had a fire?

That's what I thought (see my original post above)

and I seem to remember that they did their singing bit in some old looking shabby theatre ...lol

.. or was that just the Dorchester needing a bit of refurbishment?