The last Filipino act in the X Factor UK has fallen at judges' house.
Unfortunately, Alisah Bonaobra's X Factor UK has ended last night after mentor Sharon Osbourne did not pick her to advance to the live show.
Last seen as one of the finalists in here season in The Voice Philippines, Alisah sang in front of her mentor and Jack and Kelley Osbourne with Sam Smith hit "Lay Me Down". Here is the video of the performance as posted in the show's YouTube channel:
Sharon's concern in Alisah is really her being dated and not current, which was also raised during the 6 chair challenge. But with Alisah singing Bang Bang in the sing off and a Sam Smith hit now convince her that she deserves to get to the next round? Apparently not.
Sadly, no Filipino acts advances to the live show - after all the other acts were eliminated - JBK, Loverine Fermino, Elysa V and Gaga Lord.
Filipino boyband JBK almost made it to the judges home, but lost their seat in the final sing off and just missed the cut.
JBK actually started strong by singing the Boyz II Men classic "I'll Make Love To You" and most of the judges even said that they had the best vocals among the groups tonight. After their performance, mentor Simon Cowell gave them Chair number 1.
At the end of the challenge, Simon decided to give the New Girl Band a seat and ordered a sing off between JBK and Lemonade. Here is what happened:
All of the other judges thinks JBK needed to stay, but Simon thinks otherwise. He sent JBK home and gave the last seat to Lemonade. This upsets Nicole and she walks out and tells Simon not to talk to her.
I think this is bound to happen since JBK was rarely seen in the boot camp edits. They did not even show any performance of the group at bootcamp. Simon might be concerned on how to market JBK to the UK audience since they are always singing classics and old songs. I think they should have sang a more current song in the sing off - just what Alisah Bonaobra did last week to prove that they are new and current and can be related to by the audience.
This ends JBK's X Factor Uk journey but I really hope they bring back the Judges's wildcard from last season where a judge chooses a wildcard for another judge to join them at judges' home. I really hope Nicole chooses for Simon and she chooses JBK.
With that Alisah is the only Filipino act in the competition - oh wait, there is really another Filipina in the overs category!
Sorry for missing her out but apparently, Loverine Fermino is in the six chair challenge in theovers category of Nicole! She was the winner of Birit Queen before of Eat Bulaga! Here is her performance during the round where she sang Jennifer Holliday's "I Am Telling You":
She gets a seat from Nicole and let's wait tomorrow if she gets to stay in the seat and into the judges' homes round.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, Nicole decided to send home Loverine as well, leaving Alisah as the only Filipino act in the competition.
