Plans for live Judges’ Houses scrapped amid logistical issues

According to a report in The Sun, the show’s bosses have had to ditch plans to shoot a live version of the Judges’ Houses section after it became too complicated.

The idea was that the acts who survived bootcamp and the subsequent six chair challenge would join their mentors in an exotic location, where their final performances would be broadcast love to the nation for the first time.

Yep, despite bigging it up as this year’s big twist, it seems those plans to broadcast judges’ houses live have been well and truly axed.

“This is a fairly humiliating moment for the X Factor”, they explained.

That meant the ITV competition would be filming live from four locations around the world simultaneously – but the ambitious dream has allegedly proved to hard to turn into reality.

Instead, they’ll be told LIVE at Wembley in October, weeks after they perform in front of their potential mentor and celebrity helper.

“They have been talking about the live Judges’ Houses stage for months and now they are having to admit defeat”. But too many things could’ve gone wrong and, if it all would’ve gone to pot on live TV, it would’ve been disastrous’.

The only live element will come back in Wembley when the contestants will be told whether they have made it through to the show finals.

Insiders say the live element of judges houses has now been dropped, so Cheryl, Simon Cowell, Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw will be filmed and edited as usual.

(Picture: ITV)According to The Mirror: ‘All the judges and singers will then be filmed live at a London studio that weekend, where the 12 finalists will then be chosen live’.

Simon Cowell has confessed he thinks it adds to the “fun” of “The X Factor” when the live shows go wrong.

‘For the rest of the show we are going to pre-record the contestants performing on location, as logistically and technically this will give us the best show for viewers’.

The source even claims producers had hoped live judges houses would save the series plummeting ratings.