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"John &amp;amp; Edward have become the seventh act to be voted off The X Factor. The twins found themselves in the bottom two alongside Olly Murs in the public vote. Both acts then had to perform a song of their choice to persuade the judges to keep them in the competition. John &amp;amp; Edward were first to perform, and decided to sing Boyzone&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;No Matter What&amp;#039;. Murs followed with a rendition of &amp;#039;Wonderful Tonight&amp;#039; by Eric Clapton. After their performances, the judges had to decide who to send home. Simon Cowell was first to vote and sent home John &amp;amp; Edward to save his own act, Olly Murs. However, he added that he would &amp;quot;miss&amp;quot; the twins if they went home. Cheryl Cole was next and, with tears in her eyes, said: &amp;quot;Boys, I&amp;#039;ve really loved you over the last few weeks, kisses, I&amp;#039;m sad to see you go, but the act I have to send home tonight is John &amp;amp; Edward.&amp;quot; Louis Walsh followed and explained: &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t believe Olly is in the bottom two and Lloyd&amp;#039;s still here. It&amp;#039;s unbelievable. But I&amp;#039;m sticking with my act and sending home Olly.&amp;quot; Dannii Minogue had the final vote and asked the rest of the judges whether they were voting on a singing competition. &amp;quot;I need to know the answer,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;OK. I&amp;#039;m going to have to judge it how I&amp;#039;ve judged it the whole time. We will miss you guys, but on the premise it&amp;#039;s a singing competition, I have to send home John &amp;amp; Edward.&amp;quot; After making the decision, the judges gave the brothers a standing ovation. Meanwhile, the twins said that Murs deserved to go through to the next round and added that they were backing him and Stacey Solomon. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been the greatest experience of our life here,&amp;quot; they said. &amp;quot;Every single weekend being on live TV and having the time of our lives. It&amp;#039;s the coolest place to be in the world.&amp;quot; Their mentor Louis Walsh said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve had the best time working with these boys. I feel young again and we&amp;#039;ve had an amazing time. I&amp;#039;m so glad I put them through and I&amp;#039;d like to thank the other judges for helping me.&amp;quot; The X Factor continues next Saturday at 8pm on ITV1. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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