The X Factor UK Twist This Weekend: Quadruple Elimination

Four acts will be eliminated on The X Factor UK this weekend! The X Factor is taking a page from The Voice playbook! Each mentor will be choosing three acts from their category to move on to the Top 12 - meaning 4 acts will be eliminated. There will be no voting.

Here are the Top 16 from The X Factor UK 2011.

From ITV:

Are you sitting comfortably? No, well you might want to take a seat because we're just about to reveal the BIGGEST twist in The X Factor's history!

This weekend FOUR of our 16 Finalists will be going home. Sob, sob, sob!

That's right, you heard it here first. Four of the acts picked at Judges' Houses will leave The X Factor on Sunday night when their mentors must choose three acts from their category they feel have what it takes to go further in the competition.

Don't say we didn't warn you about needing a chair!

All the acts won a place in the Live Shows because their Judges believed in them, you saw it - and so did we. And our amaze panel now want each of them to have the chance to show what they can do live in front of the studio audience and the millions of you watching at home. We'll be cheering!