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28/07/2012 09:45 | By Lucy Mapstone, editor, MSN Celebrity
Have the X Factor mentors and categories been revealed?
Sources say that Gary Barlow has been given the Over-25s!
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Gary Barlow reportedly has to find a winner from the Over-25s in this year's X Factor
It's always been a bit of a joke, Louis Walsh getting lumbered with the Over-25s category every time the X Factor comes around.
But now it seems that 'joke' is being played on somebody else: Gary Barlow.
According to The Sun, the categories for each judge has been decided already, and the loveable Gary has a bit of a challenge ahead as Simon Cowell has given him the difficult job of plucking a winner from a group that is largely filled with novelty acts. Remember Wagner? Of course you do.
The only success that has ever come from the Overs category was Steve Brookstein back on the first series in 2004.
An X Factor insider told The Sun's TV Biz: "Gary is preparing himself for an uphill battle."
"Gary doesn't like joke acts and the Overs category is often full of novelty acts.
"In the past, when Louis has mentored them, the public got used to jokey acts like Wagner Carrilho and Johnny Robinson," the source added.
It has also been rumoured that Louis has been given the Groups (will he ever get the Girls or the Boys? Not likely), Nicole Scherzinger has been given the Boys (how lucky for them!) and Tulisa has been given the Girls.
Can Tulisa work her magic for the second year running with the girls? And will the Boys be able to focus on singing and performing with a mentor like Nicole?
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38Comments
28/07/2012 18:45
The show's on the downhill and needs a major revamp to get it back to where it was a few years ago, novelty acts, constant squabbling, lower standards of singer and bad press/inexperienced judges have made it almost poor recently.
I wish the writer wouldn't overate Nicole, personally she's getting on a bit and looking a bit haggered !
28/07/2012 17:28
Whatever you may think of Louis Walsh his acts are always the most memorable and most interesting. He has an instinct for what the public will like whereas some of the other judges (past and present) I believe have 'bought' their acts' success. Am I the only one to notice that when the public do pick a winner that Simon doesn't like there is very little marketing done for them and they are not given good songs. Whereas when they like a particular artist that the public dont vote for they go to town to give them a good single and bombard us with marketing. I hate being taken for an idiot. It was the same with Pop Idol, the public loved Will Young and Simon liked Gareth Gates and he did everything in his power to get Gareth to win but luckily Will won out in the end.
29/07/2012 08:07
Does anyone really care???
28/07/2012 10:47
X factor,Bore factor who cares they get poaid more than i earn in ten tears.Get joe bloggs to sit on the panel.\its not hard to spot someone with talent.Pay me a feb bob and sit me on the panel ENDOF
29/07/2012 04:02
x-factor is sell by date,i used to like now i can't stand!
28/07/2012 12:40
no need to watch it now then till live ~ shows we know who is mentoring who now
28/07/2012 12:16
lets take this news with a pinch of salt shall we. theres always rumours floating about this time of year (x-factor time). lets wait and see
29/07/2012 12:35
when are people going to see through this 'bulls*it'..... its all fake and orcastrated to death, mr cowel needs to get a job in the real world
28/07/2012 20:17
Why did it have to get leaked?! Why cant they just keep things a secret. It was meant to be a suprise!
28/07/2012 16:55
I think Tulisa would like to take the boys in hand!
28/07/2012 16:24
another group of also rans to be paraded as rock gods and have their lives ruined -
simon cowell must be so proud
28/07/2012 17:23
mart cardle came from the over, not just brookstein
29/07/2012 10:06
who cares fed up with it already and the series hasn't started yet. we need something new bright cheerful new presenters the works x factor is tired and boring and big turn off
28/07/2012 14:51
The only sucess from the overs was Steve Brookstein-are you kidding?
28/07/2012 13:22
Serves him right for whinging & wining after the last series that he was definitely not coming back!!
29/07/2012 14:13
Let's be fair Louis is a good manager, look at Jedward they were really hated and had online camaigns targeting them. They didn't make it to fourth place let alone the final and look at them now they have had their own tv shows, had two albums am I right? Louis was the one mentoring them.
28/07/2012 15:25
Barlow had to have the over 25's. After all, he's WELL over 25 himself, isn't he? But if Boring Barlow, the man with the amazing ability to be seriously patronising while simultaneously speaking soooooo sloooowleeeee that the programme has to be extended, along with Louis Walsh, purveyor of lunatics, misfits and weirdos (of any age), and Tulisa Contostalvos, who, lets face it should be at home doing her school homework, but still there anyway spouting her usual drivel, are all coming back, then the show is not going to be worth watching. They've managed to land one decent judge, Nicole Scherzinger, but that's not enough to persuade me to watch. Then there's all the clips that double the length of the show of all the backstage bickering, tears and tantrums they always ram down our throats for some reason - maybe they think we're INTERESTED???
29/07/2012 18:48
Although Gary has done a lot this year he needs to reel it in and not an arrogant **** like he was last year... He needs to get over himself and become more level headed...Tulisa sex tape has either promoted her status or deflated it... Time will tell... Simon and Louis will end up as the older men on the panel unless someone else even better than them takes over... Nicole, well I have great respect for her but do's she have what it takes to overcome the British non culture and just britishment... I was hoping that Kylie Manogue may have been a judge... She is a miniature OZ/BRIT prodigy..
31/07/2012 07:48
No success for the overs? Andy Abraham was a worthy runner up in season 2
30/07/2012 19:04
@ Zoe. I did laugh when you said Barlow needs to reel in his arrogance...You can't polish a t#rd, he is what he is.....although he is admittedly more level headed than he used to be, as you can clearly see his head through his thinning hair now!
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