Konnie Huq tips One Direction to win X Factor

Konnie Huq tips One Direction to win X Factor
Konnie Huq tips One Direction to win X Factor (Image credit: Ken McKay)

TV presenter Konnie Huq has tipped boy band One Direction to win The X Factor, saying that women of all ages love them. Konnie, who fronts spin-off show The Xtra Factor on ITV2, said it helps that the quintet - the only remaining band in the competition - are a five-piece as there is "someone for everyone" in their line-up. "I just think One Direction will do really well," she said at the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women Of The Year Awards. "Everywhere I go girls come up to me - even when they're not young girls but grown women - and say 'oh my gosh, One Direction are amazing'. "When I'm out and about everyone is 'One Direction this, One Direction that. I like Harry, I like Zain, I like Louis.' There are five of them so if you think about it there's one for everyone." However Konnie also admitted that she thought Cheryl Cole - who is the only judge yet to lose an act - had a good chance of winning the show for the third year in a row. "Cheryl has got the strongest category so maybe she's on track for a hat-trick but I think Simon is really confident," she said. He's down to one act but he says it's quality not quantity."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.