X Factor Six Chair Challenge round-up: Grimmy felt the pressure, Cheryl REALLY wanted to make Slam Dunk happen and Mason Noise made a lot of noise

Six Chair Challenge update: Six Chair Challenge is still going on

Probably best for him to get home anyway, he’ll get awful chilly like that (Picture credit: ITV)

If there is one thing Simon Cowell does not like – apart from new jean-length styling suggestions and Steve Brookstein – it’s being told by a man in a baseball cap that he should have been given an extra one minute, 13 seconds of air time.

Did Mason Noise not know the rules? Did he have no telly guru-based respect? When it comes to weekend TV, Simon can dedicate 45 minutes to Louis Walsh talking about his favourite shampoo if he wants, he can screen an hour’s close-up of him flossing his teeth: that is just how things work.

Sadly though, Mason had not read that rulebook which means that he kicked off, made Simon swear and headed for home to get excited that his Twitter followers have just gone up a lot. I realise Mason Noise probably wasn’t the world’s next musical genius, but this could have turned out so much better: he was different and sparky, which would be welcome in a few weeks in a sea of earnestness and ballads and Big Band Week grins and blonde quiffs.

Essentially, that is all I’m ever looking for in X Factor auditions these days. Someone to wake me up and stir me out of a James Bay-induced semi TV coma, which is why Fourth Power and their lovely bounciness were also a highlight of Sunday’s show. Producers can pretend that there’s a cliffhanger over who stays on their chairs in the groups category (awkward anyway - I realise they want to be literal on the Six Chair Challenge but they could have brought on a few more) until next week but we all know those girls aren’t going anywhere. And that if they don’t want to share dressing rooms in live shows with each other, they can definitely tap up fellow safe-bets Alien.

They should really advertise shampoo for glossy hair just after this lot perform (Picture credit: ITV)

This is about the bleedin’ Slam Dunk gag again isn’t it? (Picture credit: ITV)

Alien: big fans of the floor (Picture credit: ITV)

If we were Cheryl we’d probably say SLAM DUNK (Picture credit: ITV)

Che Chesterman does it to an extent (though I fear sameyness in live weeks), and Josh Daniel has the sing-a-note-give-you-goosebumps effect. But it’s Seann Miley Moore who could wake me out of that X Factor coma even if he came on stage and did a half-hearted version of the hokey cokey, which is why after a process so traumatic it looked by the end like Nick Grimshaw had given birth to six men, rather than choosing them to be in the next round of a talent contest, Seann is still the only one of the boys who seems a certainty for the live shows. You know what Cheryl would say to that don’t you, Seann? SLAM. DUNK.