X Factor fans – and a very impressed Simon Cowell – seem to think they have found this year’s winner already in the shape of Simon Lynch.
The hopeful belted out Beyonce’s If I Were A Boy to huge cheers and applause, nailing those difficult to reach high notes and leaving the judges and audience in awe.
Commenting that his namesake had reminded him what music was all about, Simon gave what he described a no-brainer – the fourth of the judges’ yeses.
This is the moment he came onto that stage and made it his own: