X factor

I saw this last night (at gun point) and sadly it's got even worse than it was last series... Yes I know thats hard to believe.
The show was padded so much it was boring, I mean do we really need to see the stupid contestants going out and just dropping into Hamleys toy shop?, like that wasn't planned six months ago!
No the bit that really gets to me is the poor bloody contestants, they think they are in a proper competition to see who has the X factor.
Now every week Simon Scowl says this is a singing competition, yet every week they still have the joke act who can't sing or dance. and the really sad part is he stays and people with singing talent get sent home.
Even the panel members who have said he's rubbish in the past still kept him in when they had the chance to get rid of him.  So why we ask, well it's obvious really, the longer they keep a controversial act in the more mug punters will pay by phoning in to vote for the acts they actually want to stay.
Frankly I'm surprised that ofcom or somebody hasn't stepped in and put a stop to it.
They are building these poor people up week after week, telling then how great they are then a man with as much talent as a spoon stays while they get sent home, thats really going to hurt some of these young people.