The X Factor Australia Eliminations: Week Three

This is the third in a series reviewing The X Factor results shows. Week one can be read here and week two here. Please note that no contestant or judge/mentor was harmed in the writing of this blog. The RRSPXFCJ (Right Royal Society for the Protection of X Factor Contestants and Judges) was in attendance, this time in the ‘person’ of Angel (featured top right) with claws at the ready (the scratches will heal eventually).

For the first time in a results show this season, the outcome was not unexpected. It was ‘third time is a curse, dammit’ for three-time, Bottom Two contestant, Blonde Piece. Mel B had saved her the week before and had justified her decision then by saying, “Hair pieces, extensions and wigs are far more versatile than a single hair colour when it comes down to it”.

This week Mel’s fellow judges out-voted her attempt to save Blonde for a third time and the likeable Piece accepted their decision tearfully but resolutely. In their remarks, judges praised her personality but were critical of hair extension placement saying that it was “too uneven”. Judge Ronan Keating’s comments that “At this level of competition, curls have to be perfect but too many of yours are just flat, really just too flat” were echoed in heavily sympathetic tones by Natalie Bassingwaighte and Guy Sebastian. Former Spice Girl Mel B countered by saying that she couldn’t understand what the other judges were thinking because, in her opinion, Blonde’s positioning of hair extensions was “near-perfect”.

In her Sunrise interview, Blonde thanked her supporters and promised them that this would not be the last they would see of hair pieces, extensions, wigs and blondes on Australian tv. She added that she was looking forward to a reunion that evening with X Factor ex room mate and fellow ex contestant, Clairol “Flaming Red” Hairdye, at the well-known Sydney venue, combination hair salon and eatery Curl Up and Dye. She also hinted at a possible collaboration on a future project tentatively titled: Blonde and Red in the P!nk. We wish her luck.