Rebecca Ferguson: 'X Factor needs entertainment acts'
Published Oct 18 2012, 11:06 BST | By Lewis Corner and Amie Parker-Williams
Rebecca Ferguson has said that The X Factor needs entertainment acts.The singer - who came second in the 2010 series of the show - insisted that the programme would become "too serious" if there weren't any fun performers in the live finals.
"I remember at the time I was on the show, people gave Wagner a really hard time," Ferguson told Digital Spy. "I just loved him - he didn't bother me at all.
"People were like, 'It's about the music', and I was just like, 'He's having a ball!' He's up there dancing away and has all kinds of gorgeous girls around him and I was just like, 'He's having fun'.
"At the time when I was on the show, it didn't bother me at all," she added. "When you're watching The X Factor it's nice to have that entertainment factor.
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"It's a Saturday night entertainment programme and it could get too serious if we didn't have bits of fun in it."
Ferguson also revealed that Jahmene Douglas, Lucy Spraggan and Ella Henderson are her early favourites, adding that Spraggan's original song 'Tea and Toast' made her cry.
Ferguson's repackaged edition of her debut album Heaven is out now and features her new single 'Backtrack'.
Watch the music video for Rebecca Ferguson's new single 'Backtrack' below:
Isn't that why BGT is on so on this show the proper singers get as much of a chance as possible.
October 19th 2012 at 9:44pm
Rebecca Ferguson: "The X Factor needs fun"
But not when it's depriving genuinely talented singers of their moment to shine
October 19th 2012 at 1:55pm(+1 like)
Says the person who played the 'poor single mum doing it for my children' all the time. But yes it does need entertainment, how about the lowest voted contestants play Russian Roulette live on stage. Might need to reschedule to later in the evening.
October 19th 2012 at 11:17am
Cut it out, Ferguson. You wouldn't know fun if it crawled up inside your colon to host a candle lit musical soiree.
October 19th 2012 at 9:42am(+1 like)
Only talentless people can be entertaining, people who can actually sing and care about their music are boring - another fact X-Factor brainwashed into peoples mind over the years.
October 19th 2012 at 7:51am