Sami Brookes gets the X Factor boot

Sami Brookes has become the latest X Factor hopeful to have her dreams of stardom dashed as she was booted out of this year’s competition.

The 31-year-old’s exit was decided by her own mentor Louis Walsh as she faced Kitty Brucknell in the sing-off.

Sami, from Rhyl, North Wales, failed to impress with her performance of Cher’s If I Could Turn Back Time on the show’s “rock night”, which was dismissed as karaoke and slammed as “boring” by Gary Barlow.

And after performing the Aretha Franklin hit (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman in a bid to carry on in the contest, she was voted off by Gary Barlow, Kelly Rowland and Walsh.