So X Factor 07 has again come to a close. Who cares - I hear you ask? well it’s good to keep atop any sneaky chart potentials - which X Factor and the £1million recording contract lend itself to.

Watching the finals on Saturday evening, I had overcome my initial revoltion of Whelsh singer Rhydian, and appreciated that he did in fact have talent - and, along with half the nation watching who clearly also left voting up to the teens, assumed him to be the winner.

I was relieved to see the bunny boiler and her *cough incest* brother came third – Simon’s been telling them all through the series they were the weakest singers. Extremely comfortable on stage and if I were planning a panto I’d snap them up in a second.

Then it came to the sing off and Leon and Rhydian performed their version of ‘When you believe’ and nerves were a-rattle as Dermot read out the winner of X Factor 2008. And to everyone’s surprise - from their faces even Rhydian and Leon were perplexed - 19 year old Leon was crowned king of pop and that was that.

He’d been called the ‘dark horse’ and the ‘Ace up Danni’s sleeve’, but at the end of the day I believe they booted out the proper singers earlier in the show. So who should have won, if what we believe the X Factor is all about? Or is it important to remember that it is all a game, and at the end of it, the greater audience picks the person they’d most like to listen to?

Will Leon Jackson top the charts? Will he cry either way? We can only imagine. On the up side, seeing the loose approach to talent I’ve decided to enter into next year’s competition. Get your autographs now.

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