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"Aiden Grimshaw has become the eighth act to be voted out of The X Factor after a shock defeat to Katie Waissel. The 18-year-old student performed his chosen survival song of Crowded House&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t Dream It&amp;#039;s Over&amp;#039; in an attempt to win the judges&amp;#039; vote over Cheryl Cole&amp;#039;s controversial act, who found herself in the bottom two for the fourth time.  After the performances, host Dermot O&amp;#039;Leary approached Simon Cowell, who paused for an extremely long time as he deliberated which act to vote out of the competition. Eventually, the 51-year-old declared that he liked both acts and opted to save Waissel.  Next, Cheryl Cole announced that both acts had &amp;quot;been fantastic contenders throughout this competition&amp;quot;, before stating, &amp;quot;My loyalty is to Katie.&amp;quot; Dannii Minogue also backed her own act, Aiden Grimshaw, handing Louis Walsh the deciding vote yet again. The Irish judge branded the choice as &amp;quot;a really difficult one&amp;quot;, before opting to save Grimshaw and send the vote to deadlock. O&amp;#039;Leary then revealed that Grimshaw had in fact received the fewest amount of public votes, much to the surprise of a visibly-stunned Waissel and an angered studio audience, who booed as the two acts hugged.  When asked about what O&amp;#039;Leary described as a &amp;quot;shock&amp;quot; elimination, Grimshaw simply stated, &amp;quot;You win some you lose some&amp;quot;, and added that he was now most looking forward to having a beer. After losing her second act, Grimshaw&amp;#039;s mentor Dannii Minogue commented: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s so hard because nobody wants to leave the competition. They do their best every week, [it&amp;#039;s just] the people at home aren&amp;#039;t voting.&amp;quot;  The X Factor continues next Saturday at 8pm on ITV1. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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