 Walsh appeared to struggle with the decision, at first declaring that he wanted to save Poole, but when pressed by presenter Dermot O'Leary to name who he wanted to eliminate, he then said he wanted to send the result to deadlock by voting to eliminate Poole, which resulted in boos from the studio audience and anger expressed by online viewers.Former contestant Frankie Cocozza criticised the show on Twitter, writing that ""The X Factor" just showed the whole country how set up it is, not that we didn't know that anyway.The producers fucked it."