Rhydian Backs Olly..sort of

November 27, 2009 Leave a comment

My not-so-secret sources have revealed another exclusive X Factor story from this week’s upcoming News of the World:

FORMER X Factor star Rhydian Roberts reckons Olly Murs will win the show this year because he is the most popular.

The opera ace - who came second to Leon Jackson in the 2007 series - said:  “Maybe Olly will be this year’s late bloomer; he’s looking the most likely.
“Danyl Johnson has to be my favourite at the moment though because he is the best singer, Joe McElderry second and Stacey Solomon third.
“The only problem with Danyl is that the public don’t seem to like him and I think Olly is probably the most popular.”

This is a bit of a strange story as the ice-haired Welshman backs Olly to win because he’s the most popular – yet he was in the bottom two last week.  Then, he actually doesn’t think he should win – at best he’s ranking him as fourth out of the last five.  Are we supposed to read between the lines here or something? I feel like there’s a hidden message in this article that I can’t quite work out.

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The X Factor Finals: Week 7

November 23, 2009 9 Comments

This week’s theme was George Michael.  Meh.

Saturday

Running Time (including the Xtra Factor): 140 minutes

Time I watched it in: 59 minutes

X Factor Ratio: 42.1%

Lloyd – Faith – The exciting news is that Lloyd has had a bit of a haircut.  The unexciting news is that his singing is as ropey as ever.   It’s not that he’s got a bad voice, as such, he’s just really patchy.  I suppose that you have to remember that he’s only 16.  There’s no George Michael masterclass, so the theme seems a bit OTT.

Louis is wearing a ridiculous bow-tie, and so it really suited him.  The crowd went wild because Simon described the performance as ‘not bad’.  Is this the level that we’ve sunk to?

Stacey – Don’t know – They had her sat down to start the performance whilst wearing a very short dress – quite brave.  The song was really boring, whatever it was.   It would have been quite a good performance but there were one or two dodgy bits in it.  She’s still a lovable gonk though.

The crowd seemed to be suffering from mass hysteria; I wonder what they feed to them before it starts.  Stacey looks really bashful when she gets praise, which is quite endearing.  People will probably think that she was putting it on, though.

John and Edward – I’m Your Man – This was a relatively subdued performance from the twins as they cavorted around on a 20-foot high scaffold.  They were definitely back in the absolutely rubbish category, but at least they aren’t boring.  Simon described them as an “unstoppable machine” – a truly frightening thought.

Danyl – Careless Whisper – I don’t really know what I thought about it.  He’s on a different level to the other acts and so it’s difficult to really judge him.  Cheryl said that parts of it were really flat – she gets in her weekly Danyl dig – good girl.

Olly – Fast Love – Another one of the acts with dodgy bits.  I think I’m going to have to accept that I just don’t like him, even if it’s really unfair.  His stupid dancing was quite subdued, which was a shame.  Overall, I thought it was pretty bad, he seems to be getting worse if anything.  Danni said that there were tuning problems in the first half of the song.  I’m glad it wasn’t just me that thought so.

Joe – Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me – Simon did a great appreciative nod towards the beginning of the song.  Joe’s not really my cup of tea but he’s certainly consistent each week, and that’s more than you can say for the others.

We’ve got to the stage in the competition where Louis loves everybody.  He did manage to to open his rule book and have a go about it being an Elton John song and not a George Michael one.  Simon managed to take credit for the performance, as he always does.

The main show seemed to fly by tonight, so my comments seem to be a lot shorter than usual.  Could The Xtra Factor help me pad it out any?  Well, Joan Collins was in the audience looking like a leopard-skin scarecrow.  It was quite scary so I just focused on Holly and I felt instantly soothed.

Up in the studio with the judges and Cheryl was wearing a ridiculously short dress to be sat on a stool.  The stylists appeared to be going for the upskirt factor.

Someone asked Louis why he has to be childish whenever he’s being criticised, he said ‘because that’s what I’m like.’  Which was a good answer, to be fair.  Someone else slagged off Simon’s song choices for Danyl.  Another guy suggested that Louis has had a face-lift.  Gina phoned up and nastily accused Cheryl of favouring Joe over Lloyd.  God, I love Britain.

Predictions:

Should be in bottom 2: Lloyd + Olly

Will be in bottom 2: Lloyd + Danyl

Sunday

Running Time: 120 minutes

Time I watched it in: 35 minutes

X Factor Ratio: 29.2%

The group song was Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.  Like always, it was hideous.

Skipping through a lot of rubbish (Susan Boyle and Mariah Carey), it boiled down to John & Edward and Olly in the final two.

Jedward sang Boyzone’s No Matter What, the first time in the competition that they’ve actually ‘sung’.  It really showed just how bad they are.

Olly sang a song (I knew what it was but I’ve already forgotten what it was) and was distinctly average.  Sadly, ‘distinctly average’ is too much for Jedward to contend with.

It was pretty obvious who was going to go, but I found myself praying that the twins would survive.  Sadly they didn’t.

In conclusion

It’s quite incredible that Lloyd wasn’t in the bottom two, maybe people are voting because they feel sorry for him.  Jedward are finally gone – they were absolutely rubbish singers, but the show is going to be a lot more boring without them.  There’s no one left that I’m really rooting for – a sorry state of affairs.

My favourite acts:

1. Stacey – Meh.

2. Danyl – Meh.

3. Joe – Meh.

Total Duration: 260 minutes

Total time I spent watching it: 94 minutes

Overall X Factor Ratio: 36.2 %

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Jamie Afro Interview

November 20, 2009 2 Comments

It’s another preview X Factor story from this week’s News of the World:

X FACTOR evictee Jamie Afro reckons he would do it his way if he entered the competition again – and not take advice from Simon Cowell or the show’s producers.

It was “incorrect” song choices made by his mentor Simon, 50, and producers that left a sour taste in his mouth.

The Londoner reckons they regularly picked the wrong tune for him to sing as they struggled to come to terms with what he was – and tried to turn him into something he was not.

Jamie, 34, from London, tells the News of the World: “You saw how well Sex On Fire by the Kings of Leon went down in my audition.

“A lot of people who watch the show might not have known the song, because it’s quite edgy, and modern – but it went down brilliantly.

“THAT was what I am all about, and I performed with a huge smile on my face.

“But they wouldn’t let me do a similar song again.

“I wanted to do Mr Brightside by the Killers in the rock week but they vetoed it, saying nobody would have heard it, in place of Primal Scream’s Get Your Rocks Off.

“But that was the point – I wanted to try something that not everyone would have heard of, rather than going for the safe option.

“I just don’t think they knew what to do with me because there had never been a rock singer on the show before.

“But I wanted to go with Simon’s choice, because let’s face it, he’s the expert.

“And I feared if I hadn’t have gone with what they suggested then I would have got their backs up and been out of the competition earlier on.

“In the end I wasn’t miserable, but I had lost confidence up there.”

It’s almost a cliché for an ex-contestant to blame the song choices, probably because it’s so easy for them to do it.  We really need some kind of alternate-reality predicting computer that can see how he would have done if he had picked his own songs.

 

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The X Factor Finals: Week 6

November 16, 2009 5 Comments

This week was ‘Queen Week’ and I’m totally bored of the themes.  They could only save it by having ‘Indie Week’ in which Joe sings The Stone Roses and Jedward cover The Smiths.  We can but dream.

P.s.

I inexplicably can’t put breaks between paragraphs in Sunday’s bit.

Saturday

Running Time (including the Xtra Factor): 150 minutes.
Time I watched it in: 70 minutes
X Factor Ratio: 46.7%

The show started with a strange serious bit.  After some disparaging comments about the show, Simon challenged Sting to come on to the programme as a mentor.  Well done, Simon, you can’t beat a good celebrity feud for a bit of drama.  He then went on to insist that last week’s decision, not to save Lucie, was definitely not tactics and that he’d never do that.  He also restated the trust that has in the public to decide.  The public, coincidentally, buy records.

Jamie – ‘Radio Ga Ga’ – I think it’s a bit of a weak song but he proved that he’s actually a good singer, and didn’t do too much shouting.  I still thought he was awful though.  Cheryl sat po-faced while she was watching him and then looked bemused after he had finished.  Dannii said that the song didn’t show off his vocal range and Louis said that he’s out of his depth.  Cheryl and Simon were both complimentary about him without really saying anything.  The phrase ‘damning with faint praise’ sprang to mind.

Lloyd – ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ –  It was apparent before he even started singing that this song was too much of a stretch for Lloyd.  I felt like I had been transported to a 1980s Butlins and the Red Coats were putting on a show.  He was better than he has been in the last few weeks, though.   By that, I mean that he looked a bit less like a zombie when he was performing.

Simon described him as: ‘Like a puppy taking part in the Grand National.’  This made no sense whatsoever, but it was pretty funny.  Although, it was only funny because it didn’t really make sense.

Olly – ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ – Olly seems to be a lot of people’s favourite but I’ve never been impressed, so I tried to take a fresh look at him this week.  My instant reaction was ‘Meh?’  I suppose he’s quite good but I can’t help but feel like there’s something wrong with him – and I don’t just mean his epileptic dancing.  Dannii said to him: ‘Your dance moves are incredible.’   I came away with the feeling that maybe this means that I’m an incredible dancer too, because I can writhe around like an idiot just as well as the next man.

Joe – ‘Somebody to Love’ – I’ll just make the same point as I do every week; he’s got a good voice for musicals but he’d make the least convincing pop star since Susan Boyle.  Sadly, he’s probably one of the best singers left on the show.

Louis’ rule book reared its ugly head again, this week he claimed that having a choir was cheating. Cheryl told him to shut up.

John and Edward – ‘Under Pressure\Ice Ice Baby’ – I thought it was inevitable that they were going to speak ‘We Will Rock You’, this week.  So, if the song choice was a surprise, I don’t know how you’d describe the fact that they actually sounded OK on the singing bits (relatively speaking).  Fortunately, the ‘rapping’ (speaking) bits were terrible and so normality was restored.  At one stage a man jumped around on stage with a pineapple on his head.  It was impossible to tell if this was supposed to be part of the act or not.

I suddenly became overcome with a startling vision – Jedward are going to sell millions of records.  It was a sobering thought.

In all fairness, they were actually pretty good this week and not just ‘so bad that they’re good’.  You definitely couldn’t accuse them of being ‘karaoke’.  Obviously I say this with my X Factor head on;  I’m fully aware that in the real world they’re shit.

Louis’ rule book stayed suspiciously closed.

Stacey – ‘Who Wants to Live Forever’ – If I was in a sarcastic mood I would answer: ‘Not me.’  Anyway, for the girl always accused of doing no performance they pick one the most plodding songs ever and she’s required to walk about 4 steps.  On the other hand,though, she was much better vocally than she has been recently and was easily one of the best on the night.  The judges bigged her up to the Nth degree – was she really that good or are they just scared of losing the only girl left?

Danyl – ‘We Are the Champions’ – It was a tough week for Danyl as he was given maybe one of the worst songs of all time. The first part of the performance felt like he was reining himself in too much, and so it seemed a bit strange.  He picked it up for the second half and proved that he’s still the best singer in the competition, by far.  Simon made a really good point in saying that Danyl sang the song like he meant it – it’s such a cheesey song that it’s hard to take it seriously – but Danyl managed to pull it off.

And that was all the acts done and dusted and it just remained to flick over to The Xtra Factor.  Holly revealed that  it was Calvin Harris that jumped on stage with Jedward (with a pineapple on his head), and that he had been booted out of the studio.  At least we now know that it wasn’t part of the act.

I found it pretty easy to make my predictions pretty this week:

Should be in bottom 2: Lloyd + Jamie

Will be in bottom 2: Lloyd + Jamie

Sunday

Running Time: 120 minutes
Time I watched it in: 46 minutes
X Factor Ratio: 38.3%
The group song was Bohemian Rhapsody, and, while it wasn’t quite as cringe-worthy as previous efforts, it was all pretty gang show.  Brian May and Roger Taylor joined in with them.  I don’t know whether that’s a good thing or not.
Next up was the charity single.  I think it’s actually quite good that they do this – it uses the massive popularity of the programme to raise money for a good cause – and it also gives some of the unsuccessful acts the chance to at least have one hit single.  Sadly, the song is Michael Jackson’s ‘You Are Not Alone’, one of the most depressing songs ever.
The final two were Jamie and Lloyd – Good god, my predictions were 100% right!  I claim no skill in this, I had to get it right eventually due to the law of averages.
Jamie – The Show Must Go On – Another Queen song?? Over the last couple of nights I’ve realised that I actually quite like his voice, but the problem is that he does absolutely nothing for me as a performer.  I was totally bored and fast forwarded through the second half of the song.
Lloyd – No idea (not the name of the song, I just don’t know what it was) – Lloyd is one of those singers that has a nice tone to his voice but still somehow sounds awful.  There’s not much to choose between these two – they both deserved to go.
Simon and Cheryl understandably chose to save their own acts.  Louis sent home Jamie as he thinks that Lloyd has more potential and appeal.  This meant that the final decision came to Dannii and she chose to send home Lloyd.  She did qualify this by saying that she was actively choosing to save Jamie rather than passively taking it to deadlock.  Yet again we were relying on the public vote and Jamie went home.  Simon looked like he was shocked, but how could he be?
On the Xtra Factor Simon was asked whether he used tactics by choosing the themes to suit Jamie?  His answer: ‘Obviously not.’

In Conclusion

It’s a pity that Lloyd couldn’t have gone as well as Jamie, but then we’ve already established that I don’t really like any of the acts.  Jedward survive another week which is continuing to prove that Louis was somehow right to pick them in the first place.

My favourite acts:

1. Danyl – the best singer.

2. Stacey – better than last week.

3. Jedward – they’re not boring.

Total Duration:  270 minutes

Total time I spent watching it: 116  minutes

Overall X Factor Ratio: 43.0%

 

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Post Recycling – November 2008

November 11, 2009 Leave a comment

Over on The World of Sherby57 I have a monthly feature called Post From The Past. In it I take a look back at all the blog posts that I made in that month in the previous year, in the form of a pop-charts style countdown. I’m the first to admit that this is a cheap ploy in order to try and get some hits on my older posts. In fact, I even go as far as to put the following disclaimer on each entry (when I remember to do it):

This is an extremely self-indulgent feature and is a cynical attempt to recycle stuff that I have written in the past in the vain hope that someone will actually read them. Please feel free to slag off “Post From The Past” to your hearts content.

I’ve always assumed that I wouldn’t do a similar thing on PSGOM, but, as we approach its first birthday, I’ve changed my mind (hence this post). I believe that it’s the duty of every blogger to shamelessly plug their blog in any way that they can, and advertising old posts seems like a great way to do that. Welcome to Post Recycling.

I’m going to try and do more than just a ‘top 10′ countdown of the posts and try to comment a bit on why I wrote them and what I think about them now. I really am a fascinating man. The first post of the month, and the first ever, was Why I Is Here, from the 29th November. It’s basically a quick explanation of why I started the blog, which I will summarize for you: I like writing, I want to get better at it, I started a new blog. I did already have Sherby57 on the go, but, since it is basically just a stream of consciousness, it wasn’t really improving my writing skills.

It’s (perhaps) worth noting that this is not the original location of PSGOM. Sherby57 has always lived on WordPress.com and I’d always been happy with it, but I’d seen a lot of other popular blogs using Blogger, so I thought I’d give it a try. It’s fair to say that I didn’t like it from the beginning – the biggest problem being the lack of any stats – but I gave it a go anyway. Being obsessed by stats makes me sound like a control freak, but there is a simple reason why I like them: I want to know that I’ve had some visitors, even if it was only one a day. Blogger was just a complete black hole – although I probably wasn’t actually getting any hits. For those that are interested (that would be me), the original PSGOM still exists here.

The thing that I really notice about the post is how much I’d like to rewrite it. Even the first line contains an obvious mistake:

So, I should probably start with the age old question, ‘Why are you starting blog?’

It sounds like I’m trying to talk like a caveman. Weirdly, the original post on Blogger contains the omitted ‘this’, so it’s a mystery as to how it disappeared (my theory is mischievous blog fairies). I actually did re-write the post to a large extent on my About Gravy page, but I even want to re-write that again now. I’m just such a perfectionist….no sniggering at the back, please.

I luckily started the blog towards the end of the month, which means that I have only one more post to cover. Fittingly, it is about my favourite blogging topic, The X Factor. The post, called X-Rated, gives some of the reasons why I like the programme and has a few thoughts on last year’s competition. I actually quite like the post and it’s all, generally, still valid; I would just like to go back and punctuate it a little better (and I know my punctuation isn’t perfect now).

On a more important note, one of the reasons I gave for watching the show was:

3) Cheryl Cole. Quite simply, I’m in love

But this year the words ‘Cheryl Cole’ have to be replaced with the words, ‘Holly Willoughby’. People that know me are shocked to learn that Cheryl has fallen from the number one slot on my favourite celebrity chart. It’s a position she held for many years and looked completely unassailable – I’d almost say that she was getting a little complacent. It’s all credit to Holly for accomplishing the seemingly impossible; she should get some kind of special badge. Cheryl must be feeling like a runner who has just had their long-standing world record smashed – absolutely gutted.

The post also contains my first mention of how quickly I managed to watch it all in. It took me 93 minutes to watch 255 minutes of programming. Using new-fangled scientific techniques, this equates to an X Factor ratio of 39.6%. No need to thank me, stats fans.

Anyway, that’s it for this month’s Post Recycling, see you next time. Unless I decide that this was rubbish and I don’t do it again.

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The X Factor Finals: Week 5

November 9, 2009 2 Comments

It was ‘Movies Week’ on the X Factor this week, but this was essentially just free rein for them to pick whichever songs they wanted (virtually every popular song has appeared in one film or other).  On a personal note, my post might be a bit shorter\rubbisher this week due to blogging fatigue and a technical failure.

Saturday

Running Time (including the Xtra Factor): 155 minutes
Time I watched it in: 61 minutes

X Factor Ratio: 39.4%

Stacey – ‘Son of a Preacher Man’ from Pulp Fiction –  Stacey had a few ‘sexy’ dance moves to perform this week but it looked a bit like she’d had a stroke.  I usually quite like Stacey, but, although the vocal was technically pretty good, the performance felt really flat.  Simon got his digs in early this week with ‘it was a lazy song choice’ and ‘you could be vulnerable’.   To be fair, she could have been vulnerable as it wasn’t great.

Olly – ‘Twist and Shout’ from ???? –  I’m never really blown away by Olly and I’m starting to think it’s because he seems to give the same performance every week.  Plus, he always sings old fashioned songs.  Simon went ‘woo’ after the performance, so I guess he liked it.  Louis said:  ‘Why the silly song?’ and Dannii also had a go at him.  The judges were really on top form.  Cheryl said that he always sings retro songs; great minds think alike.

Lloyd – ‘Stand by Me’ from the film…Stand by Me? – I don’t really know what I thought of it, but if I had to guess I’d say pretty bad.  The judges are being really harsh tonight, I wonder if something was said before the show.  Lloyd, deservedly, got really bad comments so the screaming young girl vote might need to kick back in to save him.

Jamie – ‘Crying’ from ???? –  Simon pulled a funny face at the beginning of the song and it made me wonder if the rumours are true that him and Jamie don’t get along.  I thought the song was really bad, but I’m struggling to explain exactly why.  I seem to feel the same about a lot of the acts.

Apparently the song was from the film was Gummo.  Louis then claimed that Simon was cheating because he’d never heard of it.  Cheryl and Simon then had another lovers’ tiff.

Lucie – I’ve no idea what the song was, never mind the film –  While not being completely convinced, Lucie was certainly one of the better acts this week.  For the first time, I could actually imagine her being a pop star and she made the song her own, whatever it was.  She also had the best judges comments up to that point.

Danyl – ‘Purple Rain’ from Purple Rain – In a shock move, to silence his critics, Danyl had a new hair cut.  He still didn’t seem back to 100% but he was a welcome relief because he gave a good performance that left me with no mixed feelings.  Let’s hope that all the bullshit around him is done and dusted and he can just get on with him singing.  It seemed pretty obvious that Simon’s glowing praise was intended to boost his confidence.

John and Edward – ‘Ghostbusters’ from Ghostbusters – There were plenty of boos in the studio, which seemed totally unfair until they started.

Fuck.  Me.

It was perhaps the most horrific thing that I’ve ever seen as they did a panto recreation of Ghostbusters.  They even had the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man show up.   It was jaw-droppingly bad and there were plenty more boos for the twins when they had finished.  To be honest, it’s all getting a bit awkward.  Incredibly, Simon said it was ‘sort of good’ – you can take this as a sign that the end of the world is nigh.  I couldn’t decide whether he was being nice to make sure they got voted off, or if he was hedging his bets in case they win.

Joe – ‘Circle of Life’ from some Disney shite – Joe should very clearly be working in musicals, but, as much as it pains me to say so, he’s still miles better than lots of the others.

Over on The Xtra Factor I was pleased to see the judges were upstairs again.  Simon gamely picked ‘Simon’s unfair’ and the caller questioned Simon’s commitment to Jamie with Paxmanesqe determination.  Not to be outdone, Cheryl picked ‘Cheryl can’t pick songs’, which was just an excuse for someone to have a go at her.  It’s all so refreshingly honest.

I usually give my predictions for the bottom two, but I hadn’t written my notes up before the results show and so I’d feel like I was cheating if I were to do it now.

Sunday

Running Time: 120 minutes
Time I watched it in: 33 minutes

X Factor Ratio: 27.5%

Well, inexplicably, there was no sound on my recording of the results show.  Some people might consider that to be a blessing, but it does mean that I can’t give any details other than what I could guess.  Jedward were finally in the bottom two but, somewhat surprisingly, so was Lucie, who was one of the best acts this week.

I’ve no idea what the sing-off was like, or what they sang, but I’ll take a wild guess that Lucie sang better.

Bizarrely, Simon took the vote to deadlock and Lucie went home.  I can only assume that Simon must be playing some tactical game to take it to deadlock.  On the Xtra Factor everyone seemed a bit gutted.  The feeling was summed up best by Maz from Fife as she asked Simon what on earth he was playing at.

In Conclusion

Well, just as I was getting to like Lucie she went home.  I might keep my trap shut from now on.

I’ve realised that I don’t seem to like any of the acts, so I’m going to force myself to pick my top three.  These are just my personal picks and not who I think will win.  I would have included Lucie if she hadn’t gone.

1. Danyl – It doesn’t really matter if he has the ‘likeability factor’ or not, he’s easily the best singer.

2. Stacey – Incredibly, I’m really struggling to pick someone other than Danyl.  I’ve plumped for Stacey because I liked her in the early weeks.  I think she’s been pretty bad for the last two weeks.

3.  Joe – There is no rational explanation for me to pick Joe because I’ve consistently given him a slating.  In my head, I know I should pick Olly, but I just found myself picking Joe.  It’s not a good sign for the series as a whole that it was such a struggle for me to pick.

And that’s the end of this week’s rather lacklustre report.  You can tell that I wasn’t really in the mood because I’ve sworn at least 3 times during the course of the post and I’m such a good boy that I don’t usually use naughty words.  I’ll see you next week for whatever bogus theme they think up.

Total Duration:  275 minutes

Total time I spent watching it: 94  minutes

Overall X Factor Ratio: 34.2%

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Sinitta Criticises Cole Over Danyl Comments

November 6, 2009 Leave a comment

As last week, I have a preview X Factor story from this upcoming Sunday’s News of The World:

EXCLUSIVE

SIMON Cowell’s closest adviser has warned Cheryl Cole to stop “destroying” Danyl Johnson or risk driving him to a breakdown just like Susan Boyle.

Pop star Sinitta – who is by Simon’s side every moment backstage at The X Factor – told how the controversial contestant hasn’t been able to cope with the storm of criticism about his personality.

And she raged about the popular judge: “It’s outrageous for Cheryl to target him personally. It’s out of order and just mean.

“There is NOTHING to justify these comments that he’s not likeable, that he’s not a nice person, that he’s a horrible guy.

“Not everyone can turn you on and be your favourite, but to show your personal distaste just because you don’t like the person they are is quite hideous. It’s not fair.”

Sinitta, 40, told how Danyl finally cracked after facing more criticism from the Girls Aloud star and some viewers last week.

“What people saw as arrogance was actually Danyl putting on a massively brave face,” she explained.

“People couldn’t handle the fact he was going to tough it out and get through it no matter what.

“But it was all too tough for him in the end. He was overwhelmed and nearly exploded.”

She added: “He had all the Susan Boyle-type hype and people were going crazy about him.

“Then he’s had to put up with being vilified and told he’s more hated than Hitler.”

So, the whole Danyl ‘he’s horrible – no he’s not – yes he is’ saga rumbles on for yet another week.  I did pick up on Cheryl’s comments to Danyl in my round-up for last week’s shows, and I did put it down to her being tactical.  I always thought that was the whole point of the show though!

There is a chance that, even as people defend Danyl, the public are just going to get sick of it all and vote him out anyway.  Does anybody else think that he could be in danger this week?

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