I don't watch it either, and I have banned my mrs from watching it as well
Besides, the kids now know what channel diseny cinemagic is on so whenever there is a threat to watch it, I simply tell the kids that dumbo or cars or the sword in the stone or thr aristocats or whatever else is showing that week is on and they e force the ban
It really does show just what a genius that bloke is, not o ly does he sell the program to the tv company, he then hand picks who's going to win and gets a big fat slice if their earnings too plus all the phone vote cash etc, no wonder he's minted

and then people go out and buy the singles of the blokes winning artist and all of a sudden they all knew they were going to win. Rage against the machine for Xmas number one again