Rhydian Roberts

With neither Take That nor Same Difference quite singing live, Rhydian gave the live performance of the night. And Rachel's luck finally ran out.

According to today's Sun, Andrew Lloyd Webber says X Factor's Rhydian Roberts is unlikely to be his new Phantom Of The Opera.

X Factor runner-up, Rhydian Roberts, has finally got his date with Simon Cowell's make-up artist, Julia Carta, who is 12 years older than him.

The X Factor smashed its audience record on Saturday evening during this year's final.

Leon's victory over Rhydian Roberts opens up a new battle for Simon Cowell.

The second show of the evening - firstly it was time to decide who the viewers had voted into third place – this, surprisingly, turned out to be Same Difference.

The songs for this year's X Factor final have been revealed:

The rumours were true - Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins will duet with Rhydian Roberts in one of the songs in this Saturday's X Factor final.

After a performance from this week's guest, Michael Bublé, it was down to the serious business of the night after a pretty poor semi-final.

Tonight the contestants were fighting for a place in the final and with none of them having been in the bottom two before it was anybody's game.