THE NEW X EACTOR JUDGES

There were questions on everyone’s lips before this year’s X Factor. Is it becoming a freak show? Is this the year it will go pear-shaped? But mostly: can the new judges pull it off? Twenty minutes into the first show and Kelly Rowlands’s kindness teamed with Tulisa Contostavlos’s tough street smarts and Gary Barlow‘s new pin-up status confirmed that, yes, it was indeed a case of Simon who? Hot moment: Gary’s tweed Viv Westwood two-piece – a heritage-chic bull’s-eye.