Pop stars hoping they have X Factor
Aspiring pop stars from the West Midlands are hoping they have the X Factor as they get a chance to wow judges on tonight's TV show.
Viewers of this week's programme, the second in the new series, get to see the Birmingham round of auditions for the talent show.
And among those set to star on the screen are local girl bands Sinergie and Belle Sorelle.
Sinergie, who are pictured with X Factor host Dermot O'Leary, are made up of four girls from Kidderminster, Bewdley and Birmingham.
The singers were in the auditions at Birmingham's ICC earlier this year - and were joined by dozens of supportive friends and family from Kidderminster and Birmingham. They are Tamsin Collings, aged 24, from Bewdley, Sadie Owen, 24, from Kidderminster, Helen Petrou, 21, and Carrie-Anne McNalley, 24, both from Birmingham. The group played their first gig in The Station Pub, in Kidderminster, who held an X Factor party marking the start of the show's run last Saturday.
"We obviously told family and a few friends we were going to be on the X Factor," Tamsin said. But this just showballed because when we turned up on the day, loads more people were there with banners, cheering for us."
Tamsin said, after years of watching the programme on TV and battling through the initial pre-audition stages, it was "surreal" to be up in front of the famous foursome.
"It was amazing to see them line-up in front of us and of course its different this year with the live audience," Tamsin said. Cheryl Cole just sparkles and is very beautiful as is Dannii Minogue. Simon Cowell is just his normal self like on the TV." Fellow girl band Belle Sorelle, who hail from Kinver and Stourbridge, made it through to boot camp.
Viewers of tonight's show will also see Daryl Markham, aged 40 from East Sussex who missed out on last year's X Factor because of a family tragedy, finally get a chance to wow the judges.
