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Teen tears as What About Tonight leaves The X Factor

There were more teen tears at The X Factor as popular boyband What About Tonight was eliminated in a shock result.

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There was high drama and more teen tears last night at The X Factor as popular boyband What About Tonight was eliminated from the show.

Girls in the front row couldn’t hold back their tears as the five were sent packing after a deadlock vote with singer Nathaniel Willemse.

While Guy Sebastian (in absentia) and Natalie Bassingthwaighte voted to cut the boyband, Ronan Keating and Mel B voted for Willemse to go. Mel B said she was choosing the soul singer in order to let the public choose from earlier votes.

In just a few short weeks What About Tonight has garnered a fervent band of followers called the ‘Tonighters’ but Keating said not enough had actively voted.

“We just want to thanks the fans, and we want them to know they haven’t seen the last of us,” the group said.

Keating added “This is not the end of these guys, and I am going to help them anyway I can.”

The shock result saw both What About Tonight and Nathaniel trending worldwide on Twitter.

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  1. Sending WAT and Nathaniel to deadlock was the right move on the judges parts. WAT were the act with the least votes. For mine I am so glad that screaming young tweens don’t get to decide the winner of XFactor. I also agree that it was ridiculous for Ronan to put through three boy bands. I think at the very least he should have chosen a female act as well.

  3. Glad to hear this result.

    They were trying to be one direction.

    As many gave said, the screaming girls was annoying.

    I think Mel is the most honest judge on the panel.

  5. Being a little cynical here but I don’t think that Simon would like to see the Boy band vote fractured considering a clear favorite has emerged and those were the original instructions “Simon Cowell pledges to find new One Direction on The X Factor”.
    With possible legal implication looming regarding the forming of “What About Tonight” Seems to all be going to plan.

  8. What did Ronan expect when he put through not one, not two, but three boy bands filled with four-five members? He split the voting demographic against himself.

    Anyway WAT weren’t that bad, they were more genuine and less manufactured than The Collective. I really don’t get the hype behind those guys and am hoping they get the boot next.

  9. This was so funny. The screaming and then sobbing girls. Though its great that Guy is going to be on Letterman. It’ll be on Friday our time or to be exact early hours of Saturday morning.

  10. I haven’t been watching The X Factor,but in regards to What About Tonight not getting enough votes,it’s that old thing where people think they are popular enough so plenty of others will vote for them and end up not voting themselves.

  11. This was a very clever ploy by the X factor producers.

    Last week there were claims that this boy band was a ‘fake’ and that they did not all team up online before the auditions as they claimed. Some guy who ‘discovered’ them was threatening legal action against the producers.

    WAT obviously has a strong fan base and what better way to stop any further controversy than by getting rid of them via ‘deadlock’.

    The group is gone, any possible legal action averted and best of all – the screaming teen fans have been warned that they must vote to keep their favourites in the competition – much like what happened when Ricky Lee Coulter was eliminated in the early stages of Australian Idol 6 years ago.

    And WAT fans shouldn’t worry. I’m sure some record label will sign them up.

    You don’t really need talent to be successful nowadays – One Direction and Britney Spears have proven that.

  12. Not disappointed but very surprised, they have been trending every night for the last 4 months. They have a have a strong fan base in the voting demographic why didn’t they vote?

  15. They shouldn’t have even been in the top 12. I think alot of their fans probably jumped ship to The Collective after last week. Their performances were annoying to watch because you couldn’t hear anything over the screaming girls.

  16. Their singing, at times, was very poor, their choreography was abysmal ( Mel nailed this in her comments on Tues) and so quite rightly they were out……good tv viewing though

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