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Frederika Whitehead

Matt Cardle wins X factor 2010

X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
27-year-old painter and decorator Matt Cardle celebrates winning the X factor 2010. He is surrounded by contestants that were knocked out over the 10-weeks Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
Matt Cardle performing live in the X Factor final on ITV1 Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
Rebecca Ferguson narrowly lost out to winner Matt Cardle. The 24-year-old Liverpudlian single mother performed a duet with Christina Aguilera on the show. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
Sadly for F.Y.D - full name Follow Your Destiny - their destiny was to be eliminated in week one Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
37-year-old Edinburgh-born Storm Lee was the second contestant to lose the popular vote after his lacklustre rendition of Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run. He told host Dermot O'Leary "You have not seen the best of me yet." Unfortunately for passengers on an Air New Zealand flight from LA this week they saw the worst of him when he got in a fight with a male air hostess who criticised his performance during a flight back to the UK where he was to attend the show's finale. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
Diva Fever - Craig Saggers and Josef al-Smadi - were the third act to be ousted and the second of the acts mentored by Simon Cowell to get the chop. They blamed Cowell for his choice of song for them to sing, telling breakfast television hosts Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles, "We kind of knew, with the song that we had, that it would get lost. We were worried all week." Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
29-year-old careworker John Adeleye previously had a music career under the stage name of J'Nay. When he lost out to Treyc Cohen allegations of tit-for-tat voting flew between the judges. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
Belle Amie - Esther Campbell, Geneva Lane, Rebecca Creighton and Sophia Wardman - were the next to go. Could the voters have been punishing them for the ill-treatment of the dancers who appear to be suffering somewhat at their feet? Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
Treyc Cohen lasted one more week and then lost out to Katie Waissel. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
Early on in the competition Aiden Grimshaw was a bookies favourite to go all the way, which he did, until he was knocked out by Katie Waissel in week six. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
Paije Richardson lost out to Cher Lloyd in week seven Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
Katie Waissel was eliminated in week eight. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
Brazilian comedy act Wagner Carrilho shocked and horrified the judges week after week and astounded everyone by lasting until week eight. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
50-year-old Tesco cashier Mary Byrne made it to week nine. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
Cher Lloyd came fourth Photograph: Ken McKay/Ken McKay/Rex Features
X factor 2010 contestants: X factor 2010 contestants
One Direction - Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zain Malik - came third Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
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