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[fatboy]

was reading in the paper the other day about how artists performing on the X-factor have to pay for this prime slot. Alexandria's performance cost somthing like £40'000, Bon Jovi was about £35'000 and Diana Ross was a cool million for hers. Pretty high fee's if you ask me, what do you think?

[Original Spies]

Fuck those chancers. They should get petrol money and a bowl of couscous like everyone else.

[fatboy]

Originally Posted by Original Spies

Fuck those chancers. They should get petrol money and a bowl of couscous like everyone else.

no, this is the fee the artists have to pay the company who does X-factor to perform on the show

[Tubthumper]

Probably worth it tbh or else they wouldn't be paying it.

[Original Spies]

Originally Posted by fatboy

no, this is the fee the artists have to pay the company who does X-factor to perform on the show

I misread it, purely because X Factor paying for big name artists to play on their show is what makes the most sense and seems perfectly logical, reflecting the ethics of real life. Paying to play on a show is absolutely barmy. But I guess these stars have got more money than sense, and the amounts paid probably have the tiniest of effects on their bank balances I imagine.

[Woodsinho]

It's a big old advert for the artists who play on the show. They're the ones who stand to benefit from being on tv to hawk their new album/DVD/steaming pile of faeces so it stands to reason that they'd have to pay for the privilege. It's bound to be more effective than putting an ad in the commercial break and they'd have to pay for that too.
The show itself could manage fine without any of these folks bring on - I doubt anyone tuned into the show purely based on the fact that Bon jovi were performing their new single.

[Robert Knight]

They're not paying to perform, they're paying for advertising. Big difference.

[Fish out of water]

Its not new - it goes on all the time. Think about tours; 90% of the time the support isn't picked because the headliner's like them, its because the support bought themselves onto the tour. Helps the headliners costs down.

[jon]

People who pay to go on X-Factor deserve to be stiffed.

In other news, didn't Biffy pay £10,000 or something to get on the Weezer tour a while back?

[bungle]

The X-factor is itself nothing but a giant advert with the sole purpose of sucking money out of the gormless twats and unlucky parents of said gormless twats that buy this shit.

It should really be called xmas number 1-factor, Simon Cowells money making machine. He must be pissing himself at all these idiots that call him nasty Simon Cowell and say they hate him while at the same time pumping his pockets full of cash.