The finalists perform live for the first time hoping to impress both the judges and the viewers at home. This week's theme is the 80's. The judges give their verdicts after each act has performed. Nicholas, Sam, Tamera and Rough Copy really impress on a night that everybody gives a good performance. At the end of the show the phone lines are frozen just ten minutes after they are opened and Dermot reveals that Shelley has the lowest amount of public votes and will have to perform again in tomorrow's Final Showdown. The phone lines are then reopened.
Each X Factor judge is in charge of a different section of singers on the show. The judges do not know what section of the competition they will be in charge of until the audition process has finished. Each judge then has to pick four acts to take forward to the live section of the show. Each week the two acts with the lowest amount of public votes have to sing again in a final showdown after which the judges decide who should be eliminated. Once there are only five acts left remaining it becomes left to the public to decide who should go.