The X Factor Admits To Lip Syncing

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By Nads | Friday, November 4, 2011 | 12:30 pm | 5 Comments
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Fox admitted that they is lip syncing on The X Factor. They said that all the survival songs are live, but the group performances are pre-recorded. I get it, but they’re not on Glee, they’re on a singing competition!

They said, “For the group ensemble performance, the vocals are pre-recorded to allow acts to concentrate on preparing for their own live competitive performances on Wednesdays — this is also no different to what other competition shows do for ensemble performances.”

I bet they would have never come clean if someone didn’t catch them…

Here’s Leroy Bell singing without the mic to his mouth.

Now we know where their standards are–no autotune (that’s good), but lip syncing–totally okay because it’s still their voice. Sheesh.

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

5 Comments

  1. 1
    itchy
    Posted November 4, 2011 at 1:05 pm

    I’m voting for Milli Vanilli!

  2. 2
    NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted November 4, 2011 at 1:26 pm

    You couldn’t even LIP SYNC properly? Nice goin’ Leroy. Way to fuck it up for everyone else.

  3. 3
    zerocool
    Posted November 4, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    I love his live voice so it’s to his credit that he’s not experienced enough with faking it to make it look good. And they’ve been doing this on American Idol for years, so nothing new. But in theory I agree it needs to be all live.

  4. 4
    Margo
    Posted November 4, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    I love your scoops and news, but I just want to say this doesn’t bother me. Glad you revealed it, but it doesn’t seem like it has any consequence to who wins this contest in the end. I’m not a big fan of any of these shows, either. Just not real disturbed by this. Thanks though for your work. It’s appreciated by this reader.

  5. 5
    themiki
    Posted November 6, 2011 at 9:39 am

    It bugs me only because WTF is the point of the group songs if the contestants aren’t going to sing them? Those things are always cheesy and lame anyway. Plus, despite their insistance that everyone does it, I would be genuinely shocked if I found out the big opening numbers on The Sing Off were anything but live. Then again, everyone on The Sing Off is actually wicked talented, so it’s probably easier to get them all to sing on-key at the same time.

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