If  you thought the UK version of the X Factor couldn’t get any more bonkers this year, it has. For, following the wholly necessary axing of controversial contestant Frankie Cocozza this week, it was announced moments ago that one act will be voted back in on Saturday night’s show. 

Full press release after the jump…

Via ITV:

PUBLIC VOTE FOR FOUR ACTS IN CHANCE TO RETURN TO THE X FACTOR

The four X Factor contestants who have never faced the public vote after being eliminated by the Judges in the first Live Show have been given the chance to return to the competition this Saturday (12 November). With a place in the show up for grabs following Frankie Cocozza’s departure, the public will be able to decide via a phone vote which one will re-join the competition.

The four contestants, one from each category: James Michael (Boys); Amelia Lily (Girls); 2 Shoes (Groups); and Jonjo Kerr (Over 25s) went out of the competition when the Judges decided their other three acts should stay.

The act with the most votes will re-enter The X Factor and perform live on Saturday night’s show alongside the six remaining acts left in the competition.

An X Factor spokesperson says: “The four acts have never been in a public vote so, with Frankie leaving the competition, this is an opportunity for the public to decide who comes back to  the show.”

To find out who will be returning, tune in at 8.15pm on Saturday night on ITV1 as one of them performs either a Queen classic or Lady Gaga hit on the famous X Factor stage. Only one will get a second chance.

Though the show is almost becoming a bad mockery of the fresh concept it once was, this is one twist we somewhat welcome. That is, of course, as long as Ameilia
Lily wins the comeback vote.

Whatever the case, there are clearly many a lesson for the show’s producers to learn from this instalment of the show. None more apparent than the fact the average viewer is tiring of the pointless twists and turns which weed out the talented and keep in the wackness so as to generate press.

At this rate, the producers are practically handing the The Voice UK an audience. An audience all too eager for a show which focuses on the talent and not the theatrics.