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" If it&amp;#039;s not Louisa&amp;#039;s shoes, then it&amp;#039;s Olly Murs&amp;#039; deadlock fiasco leading viewers to believe that this year&amp;#039;s (and probably every other)\u00A0X Factor\u00A0is a total fix.\u00A0 And this weekend&amp;#039;s semi-final has also got the cynics back on their bandwagon. After watching Lauren Murray - who narrowly missed out on a place in next weekend&amp;#039;s final - appear to\u00A0mouth &amp;quot;it&amp;#039;s Louisa&amp;quot; just before her teammate was announced to have made it through to the show&amp;#039;s finale at Wembley on Saturday, some viewers believe she was &amp;#039;in the know&amp;#039; about the outcome before it even happened.    They certainly weren&amp;#039;t keeping quiet about it on Twitter, either:      and this is why I haven&amp;#039;t watched the whole series of X factor again, bloody fix&#128530; \u2014 daisy (@DaisyStoyle) December 6, 2015         Even Lauren was like &amp;quot;it&amp;#039;s Louisa&amp;quot; before the reveal. I&amp;#039;m dying &#128514; this fix is too obvious #XFactor \u2014 Jacob&#127775; (@ItsJacob626) December 6, 2015    And in yet more apparent\u00A0evidence that the show is fixed and that\u00A0public votes aren&amp;#039;t\u00A0really being taken into consideration at all,\u00A0is the fact that Chery&amp;#039;s duo Reggie &amp;amp;amp; Bollie made it through to the final.\u00A0  Numerous people took to Twitter to vent about the fact\u00A0that their voices are nowhere near as strong as Lauren&amp;#039;s, insinuating that Simon cash-Cowell must simply have seen dollar signs when he looked at the reggae-pair and kept them in for that reason.      @TheXFactor sorry but now I&amp;#039;m sure X factor is s fix, Lauren should be in the final with Louisa, reggae &amp;amp;amp; co just cannot sing!!! \u2014 sjw (@bowmeow1) December 6, 2015    Oh, it wouldn&amp;#039;t be the\u00A0X Factor\u00A0without some controversy, would it? But one matter-of-fact tweeter has probably hit the nail on the head, when she said:      Don&amp;#039;t know why people are still complaining about the X factor being a fix when we&amp;#039;ve known that for years &#128580; \u2014 Rebecca (@rebecca81_) December 6, 2015    What do you think? Is Simon Cowell making like a puppeteer and pulling all the strings,\u00A0or is that just the way the cookie crumbles? Let us know your thoughts\u00A0with a tweet to @CosmopolitanUK. Follow Cat on Twitter.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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