James does have a fair point though - he's hardly featured at all throughout the series, yet he got to the last six of his category... meanwhile Daniel, who was of pretty much a similar standard to James (i.e. they're both good karaoke singers, and not a lot more), got plenty of coverage throughout, mainly due to his bad fortune with his wife dying. Perhaps unfortunate that the two big sob stories were in his category.
I dare say that Louise and Suzie would also agree, they too hardly had any airtime, certainly compared to the two sob stories of Daniel and Rachel, although Ruth also got a good share of airtime...