Unlike Strictly Come Dancing, which features vaguely famous people from years gone by, X Factor always introduces us to annoying singing types who’ll no doubt plague us for months until they retreat to a Butlins holiday camp.

It’s the X Factor final on Saturday and even though everyone knows that the carbon copy of Leona Lewis will win, we thought we’d just recap it for you anyway. You know, just in case everyone is proved wrong by the funny named weeping leprechaun who’ll flood the studio if he wins.

Here’s the X Factor profile for JLS.

Despite dyslexically naming themselves after high street furniture store DFS, JLS have done the impossible and emerged as a credible group-based act which has made it to the X Factor final. Last year we all winced at the incesty-looking group Same Difference who, quite frankly, still give us nightmares with their creepy smiles.

In the past, boybands from this sort of manufactured competition haven’t done so well. Remember One True Voice from Popstars: The Rivals? They were created in a laboratory around the same time as Girls Aloud but divebombed after one single. Chances are your local binman was once in this horrific group. Ask him the next time he’s peeling that rotten banana skin from the outside of a binbag.

It could have been quite easy for one member of JLS to fluff his lines and arse things up for everyone, but to their credit they have steadied the ship well. So far it is impossible to determine which member will come out as gay, which one has an overwhelming appetite for Twix bars and which one will compare a terrorist attack to the plight of elephants.

But will they win? Based on the fact that only teenage girls will vote for them, probably not. Come Saturday night, their mobile phone credit will have been maxed out from texting “OMG have you seen JLS they are like so totally fit” to each other all week. Looks like there may be some competition for those binmen jobs.

Tomorrow, the X Factor final countdown recap for Eoghan Quigg.