Offstage: Inside The X Factor

5. It’s Always the Money

The X Factor finalists have to make financial and legal decisions, but are they out of their depth? Chi Chi considers how The X Factor makes money even though it is no longer on TV. And how well did the contestants understand the business side of show business? 
Join Chi Chi Izundu as she looks back on the world of The X Factor, where contestants perform in front of celebrity judges to realise their dream of becoming household names. It’s a world of glamour and excitement, but also of hard truths, hard words and hard work. 
Offstage: Inside The X Factor captures the emotion, the excitement and the drama of the show and features some of the captivating characters that led to its enduring success. But it also looks beyond the glitz and glamour revealing how contestants and staff felt, the toll it took on some of them and what they say happened behind the scenes.  
 
Presenter: Chi Chi Izundu 
Producers: Rob Brown, Jo Adnitt, Lucy Burns, Joe Kent 
Editor: Clare Fordham 
Production Co-ordinator: Gemma AshmanArchive:
The X Factor series 4, 10 (Fremantle/Syco/ITV) 
Youtube/WhatsOnTV (2008) 
So Graham Norton (2002, So Productions/Channel 4)

The fame, fortune and fallout - Chi Chi Izundu looks back at one of Britain's biggest TV shows. The X Factor promised to turn ordinary people into superstars, but at what cost?Inside The X Factor captures the emotion, the excitement and the drama of the show and features some of the captivating characters that led to its enduring success. But it also looks beyond the glitz and glamour revealing how contestants felt, the toll it took on some of them and what really happened behind the scenes.