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Article: I used to love The X Factor. So why do I now feel so disgusted with myself for watching it?(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Byline: by Philip Norman
THIS weekend, vast numbers of v i e w e r s w i l l tune in to The X Factor, to discover if a stunningly untalented pair of singing and dancing twins named John and Edward have been inexplicably voted through to the next round. And, I have to admit, I'll be watching, too.
Some television programmes are termed 'guilty pleasures', but with The X Factor, the sensation I feel comes closer to self-disgust. For the show's current series has plumbed depths of voyeuristic cruelty that make even Channel 4's much-reviled Big Brother seem mild by comparison.
This time around, the chief victim has been Danyl Johnson, a 27-year-old ...