Four Filipino X-Factor contestants: Loverine Fermino and the three-member JBK band faced the latest Six Chair Challenge. Did they manage to steal spots and raise the Pinoy pride?
Loverine Fermino, who fought for a seat with a rendition of ‘And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going’, initially managed to snatch the spot originally given to fan-favorite Talia Dean.
”There’s a phrase that people say: sing for your life. And my goodness, you did,” X-Factor judge Sharon Osbourne told the 31-year-old Filipina.
But just as viewers thought she had already defied the odds, Nicole Scherzinger ended up booting out Fermino later during the round.
JBK went through a similar drama-filled fight.
“We flew all the way from the other side of the world–from the Philippines–so getting to the Six Chair Challenge…we are literally living our dream,” JBK member Bryan del Rosario said during the pre-interview.
The boy band performed Boyz II Men’s I’ll Make Love to You, eliciting cheers from the audience and the judges.
“JBK, I’m so proud of you. My Filipino brothers up there, I’m proud that you flew all the way from the Philippines, because you are not flying back home,” Scherzinger, whose father is of Filipino descent, told the boys.
Mentor Simon Cowell initially gave them Afro-Swagg’s seat.
However, Cowell later created a new girl group from the rejected hopefuls in the girls category and needed a spot to put them in.
To decide whom to kick out for their spot, JBK and Lemonade were forced into a sing-off, and the Filipino boy band lost.
Scherzinger was not best pleased after Cowell made his final choice. She got up, grabbed her coat and walked out of the arena.
“Don’t talk to me,” the singer told Cowell as she passed by him.
