At the 2005 British Comedy Awards, The X Factor beat Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway to take the award for Best Comedy Entertainment Programme, prompting Cowell to remark "We're not a comedy programme, we're a serious factual drama". Walsh: Paije Richardson – gave no reason, though he stated on. He also revealed that he was in the dark about whom Cowell had the intentions of bringing onto the panel. [4] Cole missed the Manchester auditions and bootcamp due to having malaria, so Scherzinger returned as a guest judge for bootcamp. [140] The rules of The X Factor strictly forbid record deals while a contestant is on the show. [13] It was changed back to Over 25s for series 8,[14] before reverting to Over 28s in series 9. 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Get the IMDb App. [77] The following day, Osbourne's return to the show and appointment as Tulisa's replacement for series 10 was announced, along with confirmation of returning judges Walsh, Barlow and Scherzinger. Heated disagreements, usually involving judges defending their contestants against criticism, are a regular feature of the show. Each night, the results are announced at the end of the show, one act with the fewest votes is eliminated followed by the winning contestant thereafter. [9] Pop Idol's first series was massively successful, and while the second series was also successful, the viewing figures for its finale dropped. [136] In April 2011, Ofcom ruled that there had been no breach of guidelines over the performances, and highlighted that "approximately 2,000" of the complaints were received after the routines were covered by the Daily Mail, and said the newspaper's report featured a number of stills that were "significantly more graphic and close-up" than material broadcast, and that were "taken from a different angle to the television cameras". Owing to the addition of the wildcard contestants, two acts were eliminated from the series' second results show. [125] At the 2015 National Television Awards, The X Factor won Best Talent Show for the first time in three years, beating Strictly Come Dancing, Britain's Got Talent and The Voice UK.[126]. The show's official website also stated that the result would be decided by the public vote, and Walsh confirmed that on a radio show earlier in the week. 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