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X Factor was the Flemish version of the British show The X Factor , created by Simon Cowell. The new X Factor series was a successor to Idool which features contestants & jury members from both seasons.
In each season, each judge is allocated a category to mentor and chooses three acts to progress to the live shows. This table shows, for each season, which category each judge was allocated and which acts he or she put through to the live shows.
Key:
| Season | Jean Blaute | Kris Wauters | Liliane Saint-Pierre |
|---|---|---|---|
| One | Groups The Cappaert Sisters Patrick & Carina Three Cats Rm'Ny | Over 25s Udo Mechels Helena Fontyn Robin Daneels Véronique Flamand | 16-24s Ivann Paco Garcia Alexander Chiafele Davy Lakomy |
| Season | Maurice Engelen | Kris Wauters | Do |
| Two | 16-24s Tom Eeckhout Karim Lequenne Stefanie Schaekers Rodwan Balkaïd | Over 25s Dirk De Smet Elien Roosen Jurgen De Jaegher Andy De Koker | Groups Lester & Abdou Mathieu & Guillaume Engels Lady-Like Miss Behave |
"Under 25 boys" category
"Under 25 girls" category
"16-24s" category
"Over 25s" category
"Groups" category
| Season | Air date | Winner | Runner-up | Third place | Host(s) | Judges | Winning mentor |
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| One | 2005 | Udo Mechels | The Cappaert Sisters | Ivann | Koen Wauters | Jean Blaute Kris Wauters Liliane Saint-Pierre | Kris Wauters |
| Two | 2008 | Dirk De Smet | Tom Eeckhout | Lester & Abdou | Hadise | Kris Wauters Do Maurice Engelen | |
The first Belgian edition of X Factor started screening in late 2005 on vtm. The judges were Kris Wauters, Jean Blaute and Liliane Saint-Pierre; the show was hosted by Koen Wauters.
The winner of season one was Udo Mechels from Nossegem and the runner up was The Cappaert Sisters (Annelies & Sarah Cappaert) from Tongeren. Contestant Robin Danneels had to quit the show due to being hospitalized for his back pain. Therefore, Ivann could return to sing in the contest.
| Name | Category | Date of birth | Originating from | Eliminated on/Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Udo Mechels | 25+ | 10 May 1976 | Nossegem | Winner |
| Sarah and Annelies Cappaert (as The Cappaert Sisters) | Groups | 24 July 1987 (Sarah) 10 September 1979 (Annelies) | Zedelgem | Finals |
| Ivann (Ivan Vermeer) | 16-24 | 16 June 1981 | Wilrijk | Semi-finals |
| Paco Garcia | 16-24 | 23 March 1982 | Heusden | 9th live show |
| Patrick & Carina | Groups | Tongeren | 8th live show | |
| Helena Fontyn | 25+ | 23 September 1974 | Hemiksem | 7th live show |
| Alexander Chiafele | 16-24 | 8 April 1982 | Turnhout | 6th live show |
| Robin Daneels | 25+ | 29 November 1978 | Bruges | 5th live show |
| Davy Lakomy | 16-24 | 13 December 1987 | As | 4th live show |
| Three Cats | Groups | 3rd live show | ||
| Véronique Flamand | 25+ | 25 December 1972 | Herentals | 2nd live show |
| Rm'Ny | Groups | 1st live show |
Key:
| Category (mentor) | Acts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Over 25s (Kris Wauters) | Robin Daneels | Véronique Flamand | Helena Fontyn | Udo Mechels |
| Groups (Jean Blaute) | Patrick & Carina | Rm'Ny | The Cappaert Sisters | Three Cats |
| Under 25s (Liliane Saint-Pierre) | Alexander Chiafele | Paco Garcia | Ivann | Davy Lakomy |
Contestants' colour key:
| – Kris Wauter's contestants (over 25s) |
| – Liliane Saint-Pierre's contestants (16–24s) |
| – Jean Blaute's contestants (groups) |
| – Bottom two |
| – Safe |
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Udo Mechels | 3rd | 5th | 6th | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | Winner (Week 11) | |
| The Cappaert Sisters | 1st | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | 2nd | Runner-up (Week 11) | |
| Ivann | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 3rd | Eliminated (Week 10) | |
| Paco Garcia | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 4th | Eliminated (Week 9) | ||
| Patrick & Carina | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Bottom two | Bottom two | Bottom two | Bottom two | Eliminated (Week 8) | |||
| Helena Fontyn | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (Week 7) | ||||
| Alexander Chiafele | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (Week 6) | |||||
| Robin Daneels | 4th | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | Withdrew (Week 5) | ||||||
| Davy Lakomy | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (Week 4) | |||||||
| Three Cats | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (Week 3) | ||||||||
| Véronique Flamand | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (Week 2) | |||||||||
| Rm'Ny | Bottom two | Eliminated (Week 1) | ||||||||||
| Withdrew | None | Robin Daneels | None | |||||||||
| Bottom two | Helena Fontyn, Rm'Ny | Alexander Chiafele, Véronique Flamand | Patrick & Carina, Three Cats | Davy Lakomy, Helena Fontyn | Ivann, Patrick & Carina | Alexander Chiafele, Patrick & Carina | Helena Fontyn, Patrick & Carina | Patrick & Carina, The Cappaert Sisters | - | - | - | |
| Blaute's vote to eliminate | Helena Fontyn | Véronique Flamand | - | Davy Lakomy | Ivann | Alexander Chiafele | Helena Fontyn | - | - | - | - | |
| Saint-Pierre's vote to eliminate | Rm'Ny | Véronique Flamand | Three Cats | - | Patrick & Carina | Patrick & Carina | Helena Fontyn | Patrick & Carina | ||||
| Wauters' vote to eliminate | Rm'Ny | Alexander Chiafele | Three Cats | Davy Lakomy | Ivann | Alexander Chiafele | Patrick & Carina | Patrick & Carina | ||||
| Eliminated | Rm'Ny 2 of 3 votes | Véronique Flamand 2 of 3 votes | Three Cats 2 of 2 votes | Davy Lakomy 2 of 2 votes | Ivann 2 of 3 votes | Alexander Chiafele 2 of 3 votes | Helena Fontyn 2 of 3 votes | Patrick & Carina 2 of 2 votes | Paco Garcia Bottom | Ivann Bottom | The Cappaert Sisters Runner-up | |
| Udo Mechels Winner | ||||||||||||
The second and final season aired in 2008. Dirk De Smet in the "Over 25" category and mentored by Kris Wauters won the title. Tom Dice who competed under his real name Tom Eeckhout was runner-up. The show was hosted by Hadise.
Key:
| Category (mentor) | Acts | |||
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| Over 25s (Kris Wauters) | Jurgen De Jaegher | Andy De Koker | Dirk De Smet | Elien Rossen |
| Groups (Do) | Lady-Like | Lester & Abdou | Mathieu & Guillaume Engels | Miss Behave |
| Under 25s (Maurice Engelen) | Rodwan Balkaïd | Tom Eeckhout | Karim Lequenne | Stefanie Schaekers |
Contestants' colour key:
| – Kris Wauter's contestants (over 25s) |
| – Maurice Engelen's contestants (16–24s) |
| – Do's contestants (groups) |
| – Bottom two |
| – Safe |
| – Eliminated (no bottom two) |
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | ||
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| Dirk De Smet | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | Winner (Week 11) | |
| Tom Eeckhout | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | Runner-up (Week 11) | |
| Lester & Abdou | 12th | 8th | 6th | 9th | 5th | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | Eliminated (Week 10) | |
| Mathieu & Guillaume Engels | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 5th | 6th | 3rd | 4th | Eliminated (Week 9) | ||
| Karim Lequenne | 4th | 5th | 10th | 5th | 4th | 2nd | 2nd | 4th | Eliminated (Week 8) | |||
| Elien Roosen | 6th | 7th | 4th | 6th | 7th | 6th | 5th | Eliminated (Week 7) | ||||
| Lady-Like | 5th | 4th | 5th | 4th | 6th | 7th | Eliminated (Week 6) | |||||
| Jurgen De Jaegher | 7th | 6th | 7th | 7th | 8th | Eliminated (Week 5) | ||||||
| Stefanie Schaekers | 9th | 10th | 8th | 8th | Eliminated (Week 4) | |||||||
| Rodwan Balkaïd | 8th | 9th | 9th | Eliminated (Week 3) | ||||||||
| Miss Behave | 10th | 11th | Eliminated (Week 2) | |||||||||
| Andy De Koker | 11th | Eliminated (Week 1) | ||||||||||
| Bottom two | Andy De Kocker, Lester & Abdou | Miss Behave, Stefanie Schaekers | Karim Lequenne, Rodwan Balkaïd | Lester & Abdou, Stephanie Schaekers | Elien Roosen, Jurgen De Jaegher | Elien Roosen, Lady-Like | Elien Roosen, Mathieu & Guillaume Engels | Karim Lequenne, Lester & Abdou | - | - | - | |
| Do's vote to eliminate | Andy De Koker | Stefanie Schaekers | Karim Lequenne | Stefanie Schaekers | Elien Roosen | Elien Roosen | Elien Roosen | Karim Lequenne | - | - | - | |
| Engelen's vote to eliminate | Andy De Koker | Miss Behave | Rodwan Balkaïd | Lester & Abou | Jurgen De Jaegher | Lady-Like | Elien Roosen | Lester & Abou | ||||
| Wauters' vote to eliminate | Lester & Abdou | Miss Behave | Rodwan Balkaïd | Stefanie Schaekers | Jurgen De Jaegher | Lady-Like | Mathieu & Guillaume Engels | Karim Lequenne | ||||
| Eliminated | Andy De Koker 2 of 3 votes | Miss Behave 2 of 3 votes | Rodwan Balkaïd 2 of 3 votes | Stefanie Schaekers 2 of 3 votes | Jurgen De Jaegher 2 of 3 votes | Lady-Like 2 of 3 votes | Elien Roosen 2 of 3 votes | Karim Lequenne 2 of 3 votes | Mathieu & Guillaume Engels Bottom | Lester & Abdou Bottom | Tom Eeckhout Runner-up | |
| Dirk De Smet Winner | ||||||||||||
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miss Behave | 1 | "Toxic" | Safe |
| Rodwan Balkaïd | 2 | "If Tomorrow Never Comes" | Safe |
| Tom Eeckhout | 3 | "Bleeding Love" | Safe |
| Andy De Koker | 4 | "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" | Eliminated |
| Elien Roosen | 5 | "Love Song" | Safe |
| Jurgen De Jaegher | 6 | "Ik Ga Dood Aan Jou" | Safe |
| Lester & Abdou | 7 | "Valerie" | Bottom two |
| Dirk De Smet | 8 | "You Give Me Something" | Safe |
| Lady-Like | 9 | "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" | Safe |
| Stefanie Schaekers | 10 | "Because of You" | Safe |
| Mathieu & Guillaume Engels | 11 | "Ik Heb Je Lief" | Safe |
| Karim Lequenne | 12 | "One" | Safe |
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dirk De Smet | 1 | "Another Day" | Safe |
| Lady-Like | 2 | "Don't Let Go (Love)" | Safe |
| Karim Lequenne | 3 | "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" | Safe |
| Jurgen De Jaegher | 4 | "Ik Leef Voor Jou" | Safe |
| Stefanie Schaekers | 5 | "Unwritten" | Bottom two |
| Lester & Abdou | 6 | "Closer" | Safe |
| Tom Eeckhout | 7 | "Clocks" | Safe |
| Miss Behave | 8 | "Sway" | Eliminated |
| Elien Roosen | 9 | "All the Times I Cried" | Safe |
| Mathieu & Guillaume Engels | 10 | "Poolijs" | Safe |
| Rodwan Balkaïd | 11 | "Black and Gold" | Safe |
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lester & Abdou | 1 | "What Goes Around... Comes Around" | Safe |
| Rodwan Balkaïd | 2 | "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" | Eliminated |
| Jurgen De Jaegher | 3 | "Zij" | Safe |
| Mathieu & Guillaume Engels | 4 | "Zuster" | Safe |
| Stefanie Schaekers | 5 | "Dance with My Father" | Safe |
| Elien Roosen | 6 | "You Keep Me Hangin' On" | Safe |
| Lady-Like | 7 | "Bridge over Troubled Water" | Safe |
| Karim Lequenne | 8 | "Sick and Tired" | Bottom two |
| Tom Eeckhout | 9 | "The Long and Winding Road" | Safe |
| Dirk De Smet | 10 | "Don't Look Back" | Safe |
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Eeckhout | 1 | "I Don't Want to Be" | Safe |
| Lester & Abdou | 2 | "It Wasn't Me" | Bottom two |
| Dirk De Smet | 3 | "Still Crazy After All These Years" | Safe |
| Mathieu & Guillaume Engels | 4 | "J'te mentirais" | Safe |
| Karim Lequenne | 5 | "Somebody to Love" | Safe |
| Elien Roosen | 6 | "Warwick Avenue" | Safe |
| Lady-Like | 7 | "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" | Safe |
| Jurgen De Jaegher | 8 | "Kom wat dichterbij" | Safe |
| Stefanie Schaekers | 9 | "I Kissed a Girl" | Eliminated |
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jurgen De Jaegher | 1 | "Geen Toeval" | Eliminated |
| Lady-Like | 2 | "Mercy" | Safe |
| Karim Lequenne | 3 | "Ordinary People" | Safe |
| Elien Roosen | 4 | "That's Alright" | Bottom two |
| Lester & Abdou | 5 | "Lost Without U" | Safe |
| Tom Eeckhout | 6 | "Don't Stop the Music" | Safe |
| Dirk De Smet | 7 | "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" | Safe |
| Mathieu & Guillaume Engels | 8 | "Van God Los" | Safe |
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathieu & Guillaume Engels | 1 | "Hallelujah" | Safe |
| Tom Eeckhout | 2 | "Wonderwall" | Safe |
| Lester & Abdou | 3 | "Pop" | Safe |
| Elien Roosen | 4 | "Wicked Game" | Bottom two |
| Karim Lequenne | 5 | "Purple Rain" | Safe |
| Dirk De Smet | 6 | "I Wonder Why" | Safe |
| Lady-Like | 7 | "Stop!" | Eliminated |
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