THE X FACTOR WINNER IS…

Well it’s over. The X Factor grand final has come and gone. With special guest perform-ances on tonight’s show from Jamiroquai, James Blunt, INXS (with Suze DeMarchi) and Guy Sebastian (with Eve), as well as a bizarre and unnecessary appearance by actor Jack Black, the final X Factor decision came down to Sally Chatfield and Altiyan Childs, after finalist Andrew Lawson was eliminated from the competition earlier in the show.
(To be completely honest, we still don’t quite know how Andrew managed to scrape through to the final three, and we know there will be a number of people at Sony Music head office who’ll be breathing a sigh of relief.)
But the winner of Australia’s X Factor 2010 is… Altiyan Childs.
He receives a lucrative recording and management contract with Sony and will have his version of the winner’s single ‘Somewhere In The World’ released digitally shortly via BANDITFM.

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