Buttom line: Kim was the first girl to get kicked out of the X-Factor.

Yes, we've had a bit of our fun. A bit of Leona singi...erm, sweating like a whore in a church. Simon was Simon thus an aging old fart wearing a black, tight condom and spreading disgusting spirit all over the place. Danny Minogue celebrated her birthday by slaughtering the Beatles 'Can't buy me love' through Leon, one of her trainees, and generally looked like she's lost in her own thoughts - even though we all know she haven't got any. Other than that the freaky twins still danced around with each other in what looked like a police invistigation waiting to happen, and Rhydian was absolutely being bashed by everyone on the planet of earth for daring to be actually good.

Oh, and again - Kim got kicked out.

It really shouldn't have been a headline unless Kim was actually a pretty decent singer. True, looking like a blow-up doll of Christina Aguilera didn't really help her chances - but at least she knows how to sing. Something I can't really say about 'Hope', the girl-band who sang the song 'Umbrella', ironically leaving their coats and clothes back at their brothel. The boy-band was just as bad, quite frankly, but the 'oh-my-god-like-where-the-hell-am-i' award goes to our 14 year old friend, Emily, who spent most of her time on stage mumbling and letting the recorded backsingers do the job for her.
True, she is young and sensitive - but so are our ears.

And so far it doesn't look too good for the 'X-Factor'. There's something a bit dry, a bit 'We've already seen it' in the air. The programme which once promised us to find the next big singer of Britain now acknowledges the fact that...well...people who win 'The X-Factor' just don't get that big. or big at all, for that matter. It kind of takes the sting out of it, but X-Factor is undoubtly still a great fun to watch.

On this very early stage in the competition it's still OK to kick one of our favourite girls out there, but X-Factor shouldn't push it with the viewers just in order to be politically correct. We won't lose another Alicia to save Emily from a few tears and a big Ben & Jerry's.

And besides, 'Ben & Jerry's' is not such a bad idea, when you finally discover you haven't got the voice for it...