I think it's pure pantomime and sometimes we need things to take our minds off all the awful things that are happening in the world. It's all gone over my head, really, as I only tend to watch BBC4 [oh and all the wierd channels I keep finding in the early hours of the morning]. The only time I watched X Factor was when I heard about Susan Boyle so I tuned in to the final having heard her rendition of The Stones 'Wild Horses' [wow!!]. But it has been fascinating to get an 'insiders perspective' over the past few weeks [or, in my case, few days].