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The best X Factor finalists – ranked!

With the TV talent show’s final taking place this weekend, we have crunched the numbers and counted the votes to put the 45 best top-three finishers in order

By series 10 in 2013, the once star-making talent show had started to eat itself, with man-child Nicholas McDonald being primed as the next Olly Murs. His earnest, screw-faced mugging on the show was followed by his woeful debut single, Answerphone, in which a prospective date correctly ignores the call.

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