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X Factor's Marcus Collins and Little Mix set for final Little Mix crowned X Factor winners
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X Factor finalists Marcus Collins and Little Mix are set to go head to head to be crowned the victor of the singing competition later. Little Mix have been crowned this year's X Factor winners - the first group to win the singing contest.
The two acts will battle it out in the second part of the show's final, after fellow contestant Amelia Lily was voted out of the show on Saturday. The band, made up of Jade Thirlwall, 18, Perrie Edwards, also 18, Jesy Nelson, 20, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock, 19, beat Marcus Collins to take the title.
Little Mix - the first girl group to ever make it to the final - are the bookmakers favourite to win the show. After being announced the winners of the ITV1 show, Nelson said: "This is never going to sink in."
The winner will be announced on the live show on ITV1 from 19:30 GMT. Their first single, a cover of Damien Rice's Cannonball, will be released in shops on Monday.
Saturday's show saw the three finalists duet with their mentors in front of a 10,000-strong audience at London's Wembley Arena. The two acts battled it out in the second part of the show's final, after fellow contestant Amelia Lily was voted out on Saturday.
Collins, 23, sang Billy Joel's She's Always A Woman with Gary Barlow and dedicated the performance to his mother. The programme saw the finalists sing their favourite song from the series so far, a Christmas song and their versions of the winner's single in front of a 10,000-strong audience at London's Wembley Arena.
Saturday's show saw the three finalists duet with their mentors with Collins, 23, singing Billy Joel's She's Always A Woman with Gary Barlow and dedicated the performance to his mother.
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Little Mix, made up of Jade Thirlwall, 18, Perrie Edwards, also 18, Jesy Nelson, 20, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock, 19 - performed an Alicia Keys medley with Tulisa Contostavlos. Little Mix performed an Alicia Keys medley with Tulisa Contostavlos while Amelia Lily sang Ike and Tina Turner's River Deep - Mountain High with Kelly Rowland.
Amelia Lily sang Ike and Tina Turner's River Deep - Mountain High with Kelly Rowland. The performance was not enough to keep the 17-year-old from Middlesbrough in the competition as she received the fewest votes from the public.
The performance was not enough to keep the 17 year old from Middlesbrough, however, and the singer received the fewest votes from the public to remain in the competition.
Speaking via Skype on The Xtra Factor after the first instalment of the final, Simon Cowell - who left the judging panel this year to front a US version - called the show "absolutely amazing - one of the best finals I've ever seen".Speaking via Skype on The Xtra Factor after the first instalment of the final, Simon Cowell - who left the judging panel this year to front a US version - called the show "absolutely amazing - one of the best finals I've ever seen".
When asked who he thought would win the competition, Cowell replied: "Without a doubt, Little Mix won the night.When asked who he thought would win the competition, Cowell replied: "Without a doubt, Little Mix won the night.
"[They are] a revelation and if a girl group was to win this show it kind of makes history and maybe something special is going to happen," he added. "[They are] a revelation and if a girl group was to win this show it kind of makes history and maybe something special is going to happen."