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"It&amp;#039;s been a bit of a whirlwind on The X Factor&amp;#039;s second season, and a lucky 24 acts have made it through to this year&amp;#039;s Judges&amp;#039; Houses stage of the competition. However, while six acts per category have given it their all, only four from each can move on to the live shows. Judges Simon Cowell, Britney Spears, Demi Lovato and LA Reid have heard the hopefuls give it one last shot, but who will they choose to bring forward? Join Digital Spy live from 8/7c to find out!  21:52Well... we could go further, but, well, actually we can&amp;#039;t because Fox has suddenly put on The Mindy Project and informed us that the baseball game is going to resume in 15 minutes and this episode of The X Factor will be shown in its entirety on Tuesday (October 23). So until then, we&amp;#039;ll sign off... See you Tuesday! 21:42For some reason, Demi doesn&amp;#039;t seem to have air conditioning at her &amp;quot;apartment&amp;quot; and instead there are giant fans blowing and the windows are open. What kinda crap is that? Anyway, next up is Willie Jones and his box top. He&amp;#039;s pretty precious. He&amp;#039;ll never be a superstar, but bless him - he&amp;#039;ll get through, I&amp;#039;m sure. Demi thinks he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;completely unique&amp;quot; and has a lot going for him, but it&amp;#039;s difficult for her because of his &amp;quot;inner battle&amp;quot; between country and R&amp;amp;B. Oh, come off it. He&amp;#039;s through.  [Demi Lovato tells Willie Jones that he&amp;#039;s made the &amp;#039;X Factor&amp;#039; USA live shows] 21:39Demi says that she has an incredible voice but she has a few concerns - she feels Jennel is really insecure with her performance, which she needs to get over. Uh, were we watching two different performances? I guess she has to think of something to say to make this seem surprising. Jennel is through to the live shows. 21:37Back to LA to Demi&amp;#039;s house - she&amp;#039;s got to make some serious decisions here. If you guys hadn&amp;#039;t noticed, Jillian Jensen and Jennel Garcia are pretty close - that&amp;#039;s because they grew up together and Jillian&amp;#039;s mom was Jennel&amp;#039;s vocal coach. How&amp;#039;s that for some trivia? Speaking of Jennel, though, she&amp;#039;s the first to talk to Demi and find out her fate.  [Jennel Garcia finds out from Demi Lovato that she will be singing in the live shows] 21:32Right, so that&amp;#039;s LA&amp;#039;s team completed: Jason Brock, Vino Alan, Tate Stevens and David Correy. All men! 21:30Also, hello! Vino is awesome - totally unconventional but totally great. He&amp;#039;s like a giant teddy bear that you just want to hug. I love him! LA wonders if Tara fares against the competition (she doesn&amp;#039;t), and he finds Vino&amp;#039;s voice to be &amp;quot;gut-wrenching and special&amp;quot;, though he wonders sometimes how it works. There&amp;#039;s justice! Tara&amp;#039;s going home and Vino&amp;#039;s through. Yay!   [[L] Vino Alan; [R] Tara Simon] 21:26It&amp;#039;s between Tara Simon and Vino Alan for the last spot, and if there&amp;#039;s any justice in this world, Tara will be on the next flight back to Delusionville (though it seems as if she never left). 21:25There are only two spots left now, but who will they go to? Will Tate Stevens, the country singer, be one? Hint: yes, he will be. LA notices that people automatically want to pull for him, but also that he doesn&amp;#039;t have much confidence, which is necessary to be a star. Well, most of them are faking it, but I feel you, LA. He&amp;#039;s made his decision, though - as I said, Tate&amp;#039;s through. 21:18Jason Brock is talking to LA next. I love Jason! Who doesn&amp;#039;t love Jason? Dummies, that&amp;#039;s who. He&amp;#039;s absolutely brilliant, has a great personality and is just a lot of fun. LA has some questions about Jason despite his great voice, but who cares about the questions? He&amp;#039;s through! Yay!  [LA Reid tells Jason Brock that he has made &amp;#039;The X Factor&amp;#039; USA&amp;#039;s Top 16] 21:16Daryl Black is anxious to hear whether he&amp;#039;s made it. LA says he&amp;#039;s reminded of himself while looking at Daryl, and he&amp;#039;s truly talented. However, he struggles since Daryl doesn&amp;#039;t have &amp;quot;the fire&amp;quot; or potential for stardom, really. It&amp;#039;s not good news for Daryl - he&amp;#039;s headed home. Sorry, dude. &amp;quot;That was tough,&amp;quot; LA says as he walks off, in a tone that says &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t really care either way.&amp;quot; 21:13The first person to talk to LA is David Correy, who&amp;#039;s like a non-drug-addled Travie McCoy, as I&amp;#039;ve often said. LA likes &amp;quot;so many things&amp;quot; about him, particularly his voice and his energy. However, it concerns him sometimes whether David can go be a top selling artist in the current musical landscape. Luckily for David, it&amp;#039;s not enough of a hesitation, because he&amp;#039;s through to the live shows. Good for him! 21:11Next up, we&amp;#039;re at LA&amp;#039;s house in... LA... for him to pick his four contestants for the live shows from the Over 25s. He starts chuntering on about how it&amp;#039;s no secret that it&amp;#039;s not his favourite category, blah blah. LA&amp;#039;s kind of a jerk, guys. I don&amp;#039;t care who goes through here, so long as Tara Simon&amp;#039;s not one of them. If there is a God, hear my cry retroactively, since this was filmed ages ago. 21:05So, that&amp;#039;s Britney&amp;#039;s team - Beatrice Miller, Carly Rose Sonenclar, Arin Ray and Diamond White. Good picks, Brit. 21:03There&amp;#039;s only Beatrice Miller and Reed Deming left to choose from, and only one of them can go through. In an excellent display of dramatics, Reed claims that this is the pinacle of his life, and about what a &amp;quot;heavy burden&amp;quot; it would be to go home now. Get a grip, kid. He&amp;#039;s a mini Justin Bieber, and one Justin Bieber is one more than we need. Sorry, bro. Britney notices his lack of vocal training and says that he needs &amp;quot;more strength in that area&amp;quot; and to learn how to use his breath correctly. As for Beatrice, Britney rambles off the same string of how there&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;lots of good things&amp;quot; about her performance, but she&amp;#039;s worried if Beatrice can handle the pressure. Yes, she can, so she&amp;#039;s through and Reed is going home. Sayonara, Reed!  [Beatrice Miller performing for Britney Spears and will.i.am at Judges&amp;#039; Houses] 20:59Remember James Tanner, the annoying child rapper? Newsflash: he&amp;#039;s going home! Oh, pretend you didn&amp;#039;t hear that. Britney tells him - sans &amp;quot;sweetie&amp;quot; treatment - that he has a &amp;quot;cool&amp;quot; personality that he knows how to use to his advantage. Still, she doesn&amp;#039;t know if he&amp;#039;s where he&amp;#039;s supposed to be at this point. You mean, in the competition? He&amp;#039;s got technical things to work on with his voice. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve made my decision... and you&amp;#039;re going home, sweetie!&amp;quot; she tells him with not even an ounce of remorse. This is so hilariously bad. James himself also seems nonplussed at first and doesn&amp;#039;t really get that he&amp;#039;s going home for a few seconds, when it finally registers. 20:55There are four more contestants, but only two of them can go through. The next to talk to Britney is Chris Brown redux, Arin Ray, who was part of a group last year. He&amp;#039;s sure his performance last year was good enough to get him through. Britney&amp;#039;s in &amp;quot;sweetie&amp;quot; mode again as she tells him that there was a lot about his performance yesterday that was amazing - he was charming and had charisma. He&amp;#039;s good, but is he good enough to stand out on stage? Apparently so - he&amp;#039;s through to the live shows. 20:50Next up, Carly Rose Sonenclar. We all know how great she is, so there&amp;#039;s no way she&amp;#039;s not through. Britney keeps calling her &amp;quot;sweetie&amp;quot; and says that she had a lot of &amp;quot;stunning&amp;quot; things about her performance yesterday, especially the control she was able to show at such a young age. Still, it&amp;#039;s not just about a beautiful voice, Britney is looking for the whole package. Oh, whatever, just let her through. Yep, she&amp;#039;s through. (Spoiler: I already knew that. Shh!)  [Diamond White performing at Judges&amp;#039; Houses] 20:47Diamond White is the first to talk to Britney. I like Diamond a lot, and she&amp;#039;s happy with her performance from yesterday - but will Britney be? Britney says that she really won her over yesterday and brought a lot of light and energy. However, she noticed that Diamond was nervous (uh, who wouldn&amp;#039;t be?) Still, that was her only negative. Britney&amp;#039;s taking her through! There was absolutely zero tension built up before that reveal, but good for Diamond. 20:45First up, we&amp;#039;re at Britney&amp;#039;s house in Malibu. This isn&amp;#039;t really her house, right? I just don&amp;#039;t believe she&amp;#039;d put it on TV like that! Britney has apparently turned into My Little Pony, as someone has put some pink and blue highlights in the bottom of her hair. They didn&amp;#039;t do a very good job of it, mind - maybe it was her young sons. 20:42Sports are the worst, am I right? Because of baseball, we&amp;#039;re getting started 40 minutes late. I suppose it could be worse and we should concentrate on the positive - tonight, we find out who&amp;#039;s through! Because of my line of work, unfortunately, I&amp;#039;m spoiled on a few of the contestants who made it to live shows, but others will be a total surprise. Let&amp;#039;s find out! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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