X Factor 2010: Results Show (The Beatles)
Nov 21st
19.51: Here we go for another attempt at ABNQ-Live Blogging.* I’m blogging from a friend’s house tonight. And if that doesn’t show you dedication I don’t know what will, Literary Agent Flatmate (APPROACH ME TO WRITE BOOKS).
19.52: Fingers crossed that my one vote for Katie Waissal counts. Read the rest of this entry »
X Factor 2010: Week Seven Live Show (The Beatles)
Nov 21st
I have just one hour, people, one hour in which I must Blog before I dart off to see the new Harry Potter. So let’s cut to the chase.
I HAVE JUST VOTED FOR KATIE WAISSEL.
Yes, that’s right people, I HAVE JUST VOTED FOR KATIE WAISSEL. And that’s not the end of it either: I quite want to vote again. If I see The Boyfriend’s phone lying around I may vote on his phone too. I am Katie Waissel’s biggest fan.
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X Factor 2010: Week Six Results Show (Elton John)
Nov 14th
19.41: I wasn’t prepared for this. I thought I had 19 more minutes left of The Cube.
19.42: I am excited by Take That and Robbie’s impending performance. Their documentary last night was fascinating: most interesting was that Take That practising “The Flood” in a room sounds a bit like my friends at karaoke (we are quite good). Read the rest of this entry »
X Factor 2010: Week Six Live Show (Elton John)
Nov 13th
Elton John recently branded TV talent shows “boring, arse-paralysingly brain crippling”, so it makes perfect sense for this week’s theme to be “Elton John”. I fear the X Factor is trying to be subversive, when really they should leave self-referential irony in the capable hands of “sod it” Katie Waissel. There’ll be more on self-referential irony later…
What we all really need to be focusing on tonight is whichever contestant sings “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word”. As Leona Lewis and Joe McElderry can attest to, whoever sings this song will definitely win. It’s this level of insight that demonstrates to my Literary Agent Flatmate that she needs to get a bloody move on and approach me to write (as yet unspecified but definitely commercially viable) books on popular culture.
The Apprentice: Week Four? Five?
Nov 10th
Oh, it’s Week Six. I was wrong. Time flies.
21.04: these early-morning, oh-I-just-happen-to-be-waking-as-a-BBC-camera-crew-drifts-past-my-face shots never cease to amaze me. How? Why? When? Read the rest of this entry »
X Factor: Week Five (Results). American Anthems.
Nov 7th
20.00: So here I am, simultaneously trying to eat tuna pasta, solve a Twitter crisis and Live Blog. The Boyfriend is looking at his laptop nervously as I try to hide the bits of pasta jammed between the keys. Read the rest of this entry »
X Factor 2010: Week Five (Live Show). American Anthems.
Nov 7th
Excitingly, I went out last night. This means that the Blog embarrassingly stumbles in with a post about 24 hours late, a bit like Chloe at Bootcamp. Incidentally, does everyone remember Chloe? Forget Gamu, just *think* how amazing Chloe would be on the live shows right now.
The problem is, I’ve found an episode of Come Dine With Me on More4 and one of the people on it is currently wearing a guitar on her head, which makes for pretty compulsive viewing by anyone’s standards. So this is a short post, cobbled quickly together by cutting and posting the thoughts I had on Twitter as I watched the show a couple of hours ago. Read the rest of this entry »
X Factor 2010: Week Four (Results Show). Halloween.
Oct 31st
19.45: Whilst we wait with anticipation for week four’s X Factor Result’s Show, let us all take this time to marvel at the pumpkin I carved earlier. In X Factor terms, I feel it’s closer to a Cher “Stay” (from now on the marker of something amazing) than a Belle Amie “Stand By Me” (less good). My equivalent of Simon Cowell (The Boyfriend) deemed it “good”, whereas my friends and family (my mum) texted “that’s amazing! wow” when I sent her the picture message. Read the rest of this entry »
X Factor 2010: week…what week are we on now? Oh yes, week four. Halloween.
Oct 30th
19.30: And we’re back for another session of ABNQ Live Blogging.* Today, I have been truly living and breathing the X Factor, spending most of my day giving 110% to the new X Factor wii game. It’s given me an enormous empathy with the contestants. Personally, I had an awful week four, attempting an ill-advised ropey performance of Mariah’s “Always Be My Baby”. Simon went as far as to say it was a disaster. But fear not contestants, I got through, dyed my hair blonde and came back in week five with a world class interpretation of Blondie’s “Call Me”. So there’s hope for you all.
19.33: Except for maybe you, Belle Amie. Sorry.
The Apprentice 2010: Week Four
Oct 27th
After last week’s storming success (no comments; not many hits; Ginger-Ex-Flatmate still thinks it was written by someone else entirely), we’re back with another super-awesome installment of ABNQ-Liveblogging. Would-be entrepreneurs of Britain, give it your best 120%.
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