/ Eliot Pollak / 16 February 2011 / Leave a Comment 
Ta-ra, Kerry. Your time has come
"Newton’s 3rd law of Reality Television states that Action and Reaction are opposite and equal. It is therefore inevitable that having survived unfairly this time around, the producers will sate the public’s clamour for justice, and dispense of the Pete Best of Atomic Kitten this time around (she is [1.78] to go on Sunday night.)"
'Fix' talk has filled the air since last week's skate-off and the public may take their anger out on la Katona, says Eliot Pollak
Whilst much of the world rages about trivial matters such as cruel dictatorships, or flagrant abuses of political power, the PR gurus here in the UK know their public. Our squalid, childish minds are too fixed on the real issues of the day, to worry about epoch-defining revolutions.
If the X Factor taught us anything (and that in itself is open to debate), it taught us that the British public are suckers for a judging controversy - nothing is more guaranteed to have the tabloids a-gushing, and that certainly includes overthrows of naughty dictators. Such scandals may get the public annoyed - there may even be a day of rage who knows. But the free publicity in the papers will certainly compensate for the one or two viewers who switch off in disgust, and write letters to the Daily Mail.
In short, it has been a week of MASSIVE CONTROVERSY. First up, the old women who phone up to cast their votes on these kinds of shows are livid that Kerry Katona survived the weekend's skate off and fix talk is in the air.
However, Newton's 3rd law of Reality Television states that Action and Reaction are opposite and equal. It is therefore inevitable that having survived unfairly this time around, the producers will sate the public's clamour for justice, and dispense of the Pete Best of Atomic Kitten this time around (she is [1.78] to go on Sunday night.) As Tahrir Sqaure showed, the public can only be pushed so far.
The bigger scandal in terms of impacting on the eventual result however, could be what we are already calling Attwater-Gate (see what we did there.) Hot favourite Sam Attwater, hitherto a shoe-in, has admitted that his romance with a certain dance partner was all just for show. Who'd have guessed. Pure publicity. Their 'romps' were made up - he'd never so much as slightly smashed it, let alone hung out the front or even back.
Attwater remains the man to beat; [1.3] to top-score this week, and [1.78] to win outright. Were there to be a backlash from the more romantically-inclined voters however, a gentlemanly figure could emerge triumphant in his place. Johnson Beharry, currently at 16 outright and 6.2 to be top male, certainly fits that bill.
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