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"X Factor hosts Dermot O&amp;#039;Leary and Caroline Flack have said they are &amp;quot;thrilled&amp;quot; that Christopher Maloney made it to this year&amp;#039;s final.  Speaking to Digital Spy and other journalists, O&amp;#039;Leary accepted that while complaints about Maloney being &amp;quot;dated and cheesy&amp;quot; were not &amp;quot;inaccurate&amp;quot;, he respects the Liverpudlian for knowing the kind of artist he is.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s always really important for the show to evolve and move on,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;So when you get a contestant like Christopher this year... my heart soars, because you know they&amp;#039;re coming to the show with something. &amp;quot;I think when we first started you saw people turn up and say to Simon Cowell, &amp;#039;You tell me who you want to be&amp;#039;, and we don&amp;#039;t get that anymore... now we&amp;#039;ve got people who have an idea about their own marketing, and how they see a proper career path. That for me is a good thing.&amp;quot; Flack, who presents companion show The Xtra Factor, added that Maloney is only performing &amp;quot;songs that he wants to sing, songs that he likes singing&amp;quot;.  O&amp;#039;Leary continued: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t necessarily think it&amp;#039;s inaccurate [that people say he&amp;#039;s dated]... He makes no apology about it and fair play to him.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m thrilled he&amp;#039;s got to the final, because he&amp;#039;s got to the final singing songs that you probably wouldn&amp;#039;t normally sing on X Factor. &amp;quot;You can go on about him being dated and cheesy as much as you like, but at the end of the day he&amp;#039;s not pretending to be anything he&amp;#039;s not. I quite like that about him.&amp;quot;  Asked who they are backing to win The X Factor, O&amp;#039;Leary teased that his &amp;quot;favourites have changed throughout the show&amp;quot;, while Flack said she is happy with all three finalists. &amp;quot;[In] these three final contestants there&amp;#039;s something for everyone,&amp;quot; she argued. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ve got James Arthur for your cool kids, Chris Maloney for your mums and your nans and then Jahmene Douglas for everyone else.&amp;quot; Maloney has told Digital Spy that the music he wants to release after The X Factor will &amp;quot;surprise&amp;quot; viewers. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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