Dermot returns with the results of tonight's viewer vote. Dermot announces which four acts have the most amount of votes and have made it through to next week. Ruth learns that she has finished in fifth place and is out of 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.