{"id":7983,"date":"2014-12-08T14:11:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/195.21.21.161\/epop\/?p=7983"},"modified":"2019-03-21T15:55:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:55:57","slug":"ho-ho-ho-its-the-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2014\/12\/ho-ho-ho-its-the-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Ho Ho Ho …It’s the X Factor Semi Final!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CHRISTMAS<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, it was the X Factor semi final and being the month of December, there was a decidedly festive flavour to proceedings. But who was going to be safe and who was going home for Christmas? Read on to find out……<\/p>\n

For the first round, all of the contestants sang Christmas songs. I didn’t feel that any of them sparkled with their first performances.<\/p>\n

Fleur East with ‘All I Want for Christmas’, while she looked fabulous, I didn’t feel delivered. Her rendition just didn’t compare with the original.<\/p>\n

Lauren was as wishy washy as ever with ‘Stay Another Day’. Even the judges – in between throwing snowballs at each other- were quite critical of her – Always the kiss of death at this late stage.<\/p>\n

Ben looked very tasty as always but I didn’t like the choice of song.<\/p>\n

And as for Andrea’s rendition of ‘Oh Holy Night’ – All I can say is Oh, holy crap! did he have to warble so much. I always feel that less is more when it comes to this song.<\/p>\n