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X Factor judge Demi Lovato cried her way through Monday night’s show while a visibly nervous Britney Spears gave short, recurring answers and fluffed her lines on the auto cue.
Because it was Thanksgiving, all the contestants dedicated their song to a person who has helped them all the way through their lives.
The emotional back-stories that range from a mother who died on Christmas Eve (Paige Thomas) to a sister, who died from Cerebral Palsy (CeCe Frey) Disney actress Lovato can’t stop crying.
Temporarily, Britney Spears appeared anxious and restlessly looked around the room between songs.
When it was her turn to make a comment, she smiled uneasily and muddled her auto cue as she introduced the last act of the night - Carly Rose Sonenclar.
'Now get ready to be amazed all over again,' Britney reading the script, Britney read the script.
'This is Arin Ray…errr no it’s not Arin Ray… it’s Carly Rose,' she blundered.
The pressure for the contestants seems to be rising as they face another double elimination tomorrow.
The first guy who sang was Tate Stevens, who performs a rendition of I'm Already There, which he devoted to his father.
'Your performances are always so special and so touching,' said Britney, who sported a royal blue cropped dress with chainmail top - to reveal her washboard stomach.
But Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato were not as impress as Britney.
'I feel as if maybe this wasn’t your best performance, but it was still incredible,' said Lovato, who was dressed in a sleeveless metallic dress.
'Your voice was breaking in parts, it wasn’t as strong as it has been,' said Cowell.
Adding: 'But that does that mean that you’re going home tomorrow? Not a cat in hell’s chance.'
Diamond White sang Celine Dion’s ‘Because You Loved Me’ for her mother.
'I cannot imagine even carrying on without my mom,” said the teenager tearfully.
'She has always been my everything.'
Her ballad got a standing ovation from the judges. With Demi Lovato even breaking down in tears.
'You’ve never had a moment like that baby. Unless I’m dead wrong we’re gonna be hearing your name for many, many years. You are the truth ' said music executive and producer La Reid, 56.
'You literally gave me chills. You’re mum is hysterically crying in the crowd there, and you made Demi cry,' exclaimed host Khloé Kardashian-Odom, who was being watched from the audience by her entire family and her sister’s boyfriend Kanye West.
'What an emotional night,' said Kardashian’s co-host Mario Lopez.
Next was Cowell’s boy-band Emblem3 who sang the One Republic hit Secrets for their youth club leaders.
'For me your performance lacked emotion,' said Reid.
'I thought it was very emotional,' breathed Lovato.
'I thought it was a great change of pace with more emotion,' disagreed Cowell.
'Don’t listen to the Grinch on my right,' said Cowell.
'I want to thank you guys for being such a pleasure to work with,' added the music mogul.
Britney’s protégée Arin Ray didn’t impress the judges when he sang Hero by Enrique Iglesias for his older brother.
'It was a great song choice, but I feel like it was too big for you,' said Reid.
'There’s a $5 million price at the end of this, and I don’t feel like you gave me a $5million performance,' he added.
Lovato was even harsher as she said: 'If I owned a record label I wouldn’t have signed you; I was just so bored.'
CeCe Frey was till crying when she dedicated her performance to her sister Kelsey, who died at age 7 after she died because of Cerebral Palsy.
'I always feel that Kelsey is watching over me and that she is my guardian angel,' said the singer who channeled old-fashioned Hollywood glamour to sing Bette Midler’s Wind Beneath My Wings.
'I felt every word of this song,' praised Reid.
'You poured your heart and soul into that. I thought you were amazing,' said Spears.
'I like you and I hope the public keep you in this competition,' said Cowell, and as CeCe sobbed from the emotion of the song Lovato didn’t look at her.
'I can’t look at you because I’ll start crying again,' sniffed the Disney actress and pop star, 20.
Religious girl band Fifth Harmony devoted their to God.
'We love God,' they chimed before performing their own version of The Pretenders song I’ll Stand By You.
Britney’s teen sensation Beatrice Miller sang Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol dedicated to her two adopted sisters, who are suffering from learning disabilities.
Sporting multi-coloured hair and an abundance of oversize jewellery the 13-year old choked as she was singing the heartfelt ballad.
'You are so adorable,' said Reid.
From La Reid’s team heavily-tattooed Vino Alan dedicated their song for the troops in the US military.
'From the moment they get up to the moment they sleep their lives are always in danger for us,' he said.
Patriotic Lee Greenwood song God Bless the U.S.A.
'I think on the back of this we could be seeing you at number one tomorrow,' he added.
Paige Thomas sang Everytime by Britney Spears.
She dedicated her song to Colleen, the woman who cared for Paige after her mother was killed in a car accident on Christmas eve.
The last one who performed was last week’s favourites, Carly Rose Sonenclar.
Despite having her intro mixed-up by Britney Spears Carly, 13, gave her all for the classic song Somewhere Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz.
She managed to get a standing ovation from all the four judges.
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