The more experienced you get at the reality show analysis game (and it is a game), the more you realise that when it comes to judges, they've either got it or they haven't. Sharon's got it, no doubt about that. But, pretty as she is in a sort of synthetic-hair, symmetrical-faced, if-you-like-that-kind-of-thing sort of way, Dannii's not even close. So she has a nerve, I think, to say that filming the new series of The X Factor without Shaz has been "a dream". Dannii told The Sun that judging alongside Mrs O had been uncomfortable, but things are better now. She said: "It's just a dream. It's a very different set. No more eyes down during commercial breaks trying not to look tense. It wasn't the sort of environment I wanted to be in." Hopefully this doesn't mean Cole hasn't got it either.

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