Just when you thought X Factor was over, it reappears like that case of genital herpes you’ve been struggling with since you came back from that long weekend in Bognor. You disgust us.
Coincidentally ‘you disgust us’ was the reaction had by more than 1000 viewers of Saturday’s X Factor Final. But ‘Angry from Guildford’ isn’t calling up OFCOM to complain about the binning of Tesco Value Mary, or to ask just how the hell Katie Weasel was every allowed out of the womb, let alone onto TV.
Nor were they complaining about Matt ‘everyman blokey bloke better-decorator-than-singer’ Cardle winning the whole damn thing and promptly becoming wildly uninteresting.
No, they say there was too much RAUNCHINESS.? Too many SCANTILY clad women.? Too many gyrating PELVISES. Too much of EVERYTHING! This is 7pm on a Saturday, not one of those late night pornographically German skin movies or what ever they are.
Considering the final scored a massive 17.2 million viewers we can only assume that the complaints are from people who were, until Saturday unaware of Christina Aguilera and Rihanna.? They aren’t exactly known for singing ‘Kumbaya’ while dressed tastefully in gingham dresses.? Heck, Rihanna made an umbrella look alluring enough to curdle the loins.
A fella from OFCOM said
“we are assessing the complaints but are not currently investigating the show.”
He may have well have said ‘we’ve taken the phone of the hook so no more mentalists can call up and say the words ‘it wasn’t like this in my day”
We’re pretty conflicted here.? We love being outraged, it gets you reading us.? But we just can’t get upset about this.? We can’t stand on or internet orange box and shout “cover up those ankle you brazen hussy!” Nor can we deliver a good slagging to an impossibly small percentage of those who watched the show.
We tried to figure out the percentage, something like 0.0058% of people who watched the damn show were upset by it.? That’s probably a similar percentage of how many people watching were likely to have lizard tongues that they can catch flies with.
The real story on this is, why the hell are we writing about it?
We disgust us.
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Braille.Bree says
These kind of shows can be either successful or not. I consider them just fine, a great opportunity for those, who have talent and are not discovered yet. I happen to know someone whose life changes radically thanks to this show.