This week's auditions come from Sheffield, Glasgow and Birmingham as more hopefuls good and bad try to impress the judges. Kimberly manages to irritate Simon with her personality but still manages to impress the rest of the judges with her voice. Golden oldies Dorothy and Eric meet in the holding area and decide to go on a date after the auditions and both end up impressing the judges and making it through to boot camp.
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.