Finally, the most competitive category; The Girls were told that they would be whisked off to Cannes, and were overjoyed to learn that their mentor would be new judge, Cheryl Cole, assisted by fellow Girls Aloud member and best friend Kimberley Walsh.

The groups were next to hear where they were heading off to and who their mentor would be.

And so to the Over 25s who were thrilled to hear that they would be going to St. Tropez.

Storms, tears, nerves, forgotten lyrics and weird outfits; you guessed it, it's the Judges' homes stage of The X Factor 5. And tonight's show didn't fail to deliver the drama that the show thrives upon.

Newly formed all girl band Bad Lashes are Emily McNamee, aged 19, Sophie Wilson, 23, from Hartlepool, and Samantha (Sam) Bennett, 21, and Stacey-Lacey Lincoln, 20, both from Durham.

Scott Bruton has hung up his Pontin's Bluecoat to concentrate on his X Factor dream. Possibly a wise move seeing as he is now through to the Judges' Homes stage.

Last night's bootcamp show had Simon wondering, despite how good he was, if 16-year-old Eoghan Quigg could do with another year or so.

One surprise to emerge from X Factor's bootcamp this year has been Suzie Furlonger.

Another familiar face in this series of X factor is that of 22-year-old Austin Drage who has recently been busy updating his facebook account with photographs of his muscles and tattoos in stark contrast to the tearful earnest face seen recently in the bootcamp shows! Very different too from those seen in last year's bootcamp or with Black Mountain, the Record Label, Music Publishing, and Management he appears to be currently signed with.

After an amazing performance, almost blowing the judges away in last night's show, Joelle Moses progressed to the second round of bootcamp, aired earlier on tonight. However, unfortunately for Joelle and shockingly for the audience, her vocals didn't hold up during tonight's painful performance, resulting in her exit from the competition and her dreams of making it to the judges' homes crushed.