DO YOU REMEMBER how compellingly cringey it was, the first time you saw a keen, puppyish candidate standing on that plastic star, singing their heart out to the cameras—eyes full of emotion—only to be told they couldn’t sing at all? And then, regardless of whether the wannabe looked like an FHM pin-up or a fugitive from the local hospital, the director would cut to Pete Waterman wincing, and you’d laugh…
And then, do you remember what you said, as you popped open another packet of Maltesers? You said: "Who they could sing?!".
