Dermot is back with the results of the first public vote of the series. This week there will be a double elimination. The finalists perform together live on stage. Pharrell Williams and Taylor Swift perform live on stage. Blonde Electra, Stephanie and Overload Generation are revealed as being in the bottom three. Dermot then reveals that Blonde Electra have come bottom of the public vote and are the first act to be eliminated from the competition. Overload Generation and Stephanie perform once again and after the judges are unable to agree on who should be sent home the result goes to deadlock. Dermot then reveals that Overload Generation have less public votes and are eliminated from the competition.
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.