X Factor shock as rejected singers return to the stage in groups category
Simon Cowell is faced with a new contestant as the Six Chair Challenge continues.
X Factor fans – and judges – will get a surprise on Saturday night when previously booted contestants return to the stage.
As Simon Cowell takes to the chair to judge the groups category in the next round of the Six Chair Challenge, he will be faced with an unexpected new band.
The all-female and aptly named New Girl Band appear on stage just hours after coming together, following each member’s rejection earlier in the ITV competition, to perform Hey Mama by David Guetta and Nicki Minaj.
Cowell greets returning hopefuls Kelsey, Imagen, Lydia, Sky and Charlie with a grin and says: “Well, this is interesting.”
Next up is girl-group Beau Road with their a capella version of Straight Up, by Paula Abdul, but Cowell warns them against sounding “amateurish” by simply singing at the same time rather than harmonising.
Other entries in the first part of the show will include six-piece singers Lemonade, who have already made it through several levels of the competition since forming just three weeks before their first audition, and all-male Rak-Su with another original song, Change Your Mind.
Unimpressed with Jack and Joel’s first offering of Christina Aguilera’s Ain’t No Other Man, he demands an alternative, allowing the London duo to show off their singing and beatboxing skills with their second piece, Bang Bang by Jessie J.
Teenage brothers and songwriters Sean and Conor Price, from Blessington in Ireland, get the same treatment as Cowell calls for them to halt their heartfelt performance of original song Something In The Way and they present instead their track, Time.
Suave Danny Lambo is the first to claim the stage, bringing a bouquet of white roses and a gift for his mentor with whom he jokes that a “romance has been developing”.
Viewers will only see Scherzinger get through her first chunk of entries, including Montenegro singer with the signature plait, Slavko Kalezic, as well as Dutch national Berget Lewis, 71-year-old retired bus driver Glenroy Grant and Loverine Fermino.
X Factor continues on ITV at 8.15pm.
