Olly Murs is a 25 year old office worker from Essex who, before the X Factor, spent his working time giving people energy advice. After wowing the audience and judges at auditions in London with his performance of ‘Superstition’, expectations were high for his bootcamp performances. Cheryl had loved everything about him and Simon had said it was “the easiest Yes I have ever given”, but his performance in Hammersmith didn’t get such an enthusiastic response.

At bootcamp, Olly Murs chose to sing ‘Your Song’ by Elton John and the crowd loved him again but the judges were a bit less enthusiastic, especially Simon who was frustrated by the fact that the Essex Geezer hadn’t taken more of a risk with his song. Olly said he was “chuffed” with his performance, and it was enough to get him through to Simon’s house in Los Angeles.

The over 25s were looking like the strongest category, so he had his work cut out, but Olly gave great performances which seemed to impress Sinitta. He still wasn’t showing the dynamic side he did in the first audition though, which worried Simon given the competition. “This is like going round a track at Silverstone… you never know what’s around the next corner,” Olly said about his experience in the competition.

The moment of truth came, and usual, Simon dragged the verdict out for dramatic effect. “You’re a risk. But sometimes I need to take risks.” Simon smiled. Olly broke down “I’m gonna give it everything I’ve got,” he told Dermot. Good job, Olly!

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Olly went back to perform his debut peformance from his first audition “Superstition” and it was top draw!

Olly gives 112% with his duet partner Robbie Williams when they sung “Angels” together.

Olly Murs makes the final two!! His final song of the night was “Fools In Love” which was a huge crowd pleaser. So the Murs has got one final hurdle to jump. How’s he going to do? Leave your comments below and tell us what you think.

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Olly Murs sings “You Can Feel It” for his first semi final song.

Olly sings “We Can Work It Out” for his second song in the semi final and reminds everyone of his orginal Stevie Wonder performance from the auditons.

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Ollys first song from Saturday night, “Love aint here anymore”.

Ollys upbeat crowd pleaser second song “Saturday nights alright”.

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Olly Murs got to perform a much more current song than he’s been used to this Saturday. It seemed to go down a blast with the audience but he somehow found himself in the bottom two! Are you guys not voting for the Murs?

How do you think he did? Please leave your comments below

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Olly Murs aka Mr Fahrenheit sings Don’t Stop Me Now at The X Factor on Saturday night.

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Essex boy Olly Murs performs a song out of the 80’s classic Ferris Bueller Day Off for Movie Week on The X Factor.

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It all gets a little hairy for Olly Murs on last nights show!

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Olly Murs performs Bewitched for Big Band week. You can check out how the other contestants did last night here: Stacey Solomon, Danyl Johnson, Lucie Jones and finally little Geordie Joe McElderry.

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Olly Murs performs a Tina Turner track “Fool In Love” for Diva Week.

To see how some of the other contestants did last night click on the following names: Danyl Johnson and Stacey Solomon.

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