The X Factor recap: Samantha Jade the jewel in the crown

By Ben Pobjie
Updated November 21 2012 - 12:23am, first published 12:00am

The French call it "je ne sais quoi": that ineffable quality some special individuals are simply born with, that sets them apart from the common crowd, the impossible-to-define characteristic that marks out great from good, the quality, for want of a better description, of being the winner of a television talent contest. It is The X Factor, and we are about to find out who, among all the people in this wide brown land, has it, and who is a hopeless failure.

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