This year’s series of the X Factor has been dogged by fix rumours for some time now - and they aren’t going away anytime soon.

Just a few weeks ago, Olly Murs announced the deadlock results before being handed the top secret’ envelope.

Following an intense sing-off between contestants Monica Michael and Anton Stephans, the X Factor judges failed to come to a decision on who should stay in the show.

As a result, the vote then went to ‘deadlock’ meaning that the public had the final say.

But before revealing that the vote had gone to deadlock, Olly shocked fans by announcing that singer Monica Michael was leaving the competition.

This led fans to accuse the show of having a fixed result — and Monica herself did nothing to dampen those rumours.

"I don't know if it's fixed. Everyone has their own opinions about the show. If it's fixed or not we'll never know," she told Daily Star Online.

"I just knew in my heart I was going home."

Former X Factor flop Kitty Brucknell has also hinted at a fix, claiming that Mason Noixe and Simon Cowell’s epic on-stage argument was also planned by producers.

Writing in her column for the Mirror, Kitty said: “He’s an amazing performer and artist. I can actually see him selling out arenas, which makes me wonder what possessed him to behave in that way.

“All I can say is that something else must have happened backstage that we didn’t see. Rumours can fly around on this show and things do get leaked…”

And, of course, there was that infamous audition from The First Kings, which saw one member of the band throw his jumper in to the crowd mid-way through the set…

Before magically finishing with it back around his waist.

As you do.

Now viewers have spotted ANOTHER strange incident in this weekend’s episode of The X Factor - leading them to speculate once again that the show has been fixed in favour of Louisa.

Before Lauren had to take on the sing-off challenge alongside Che, she found out that Louisa, also under Rita Ora's wing had made it through ahead of her.

More than a few fans are of the opinion that she mouthed "It's Louisa" before Louisa's name was even called, leading viewers to believe that she had some prior knowledge of what was about to go down.

One furious viewer tweeted: “It's blatantly clear @TheXFactor is fixed for Louisa to win #fixfactor”

Hmm.

Do you think the show is a fix - or do you think Lauren’s fans are just upset that she didn’t make it through to the finals?

Let us know via Facebook or Twitter (@CloserOnline) now.