X Factor was the Icelandic version of the popular British television show The X Factor. It premiered in Reykjavík on November 17, 2006, with actress Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir hosting the show. The judges were the talent agent and businessman Einar Bárðarson, rock musician Elínborg Halldórsdóttir and pop singer Paul Oscar. Previously, both Einar and Páll Óskar had been judges in Idol stjörnuleit, the Icelandic version of Pop Idol.
In the finals of X Factor held in Vetrargarðinum, Smáralind, a large shopping center in Iceland, singer and hair dresser Jógvan Hansen from Faroe Islands was the winner.
Contestants
Key:
- – Winner
- – Runner-up
- – Third place
Category (mentor) | Acts | |||
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16-24s (Halldórsdóttir) | Sigurbjörg Tinna Gunnarsdóttir | Guðbjörg Hilmarsdóttir | Gylfi Víðisson | Jóhanna M. Wiklund |
Over 25s (Bárðarson) | Jógvan Hansen | Sigurður Ingimarsson | Alan Jones | Inga Sæland |
Groups (Oscar) | Fjórflétta | Gís | Hara | Já |
Results summary
- Colour key
– | Contestant was in the bottom two and had to sing again in the final showdown |
– | Contestant received the fewest public votes and was immediately eliminated (no final showdown) |
– | Contestant received the most public votes |
Contestant | 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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Jógvan Hansen | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner 70% |
Hara | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Runner-up 30% |
Guðbjörg Hilmarsdóttir | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | 3rd | Eliminated (week 10) |
Gís | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Bottom two | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | 4th | Eliminated (week 9) | |
Inga Sæland | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 8) | ||
Gylfi Víðisson | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 7) | |||
Alan Jones | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 6) | ||||
Jóhanna M. Wiklund | Bottom two | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 5) | |||||
Sigurður Ingimarsson | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 4) | ||||||
Fjórflétta | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 3) | |||||||
Já | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 2) | ||||||||
Sigurbjörg Tinna Gunnarsdóttir | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 1) | |||||||||
Final showdown | Jóhanna M. Wiklund, Sigurbjörg Tinna Gunnarsdóttir |
Alan Jones, Já |
Fjórflétta, Jóhanna M. Wiklund |
Gís, Sigurður Ingimarsson |
Gís, Jóhanna M. Wiklund |
Alan Jones, Hara |
Gís, Gylfi Víðisson |
Guðbjörg Hilmarsdóttir, Inga Sæland |
No final showdown or judges' votes; results were based on public votes alone | ||
Bárðarson's vote to eliminate | Já | Fjórflétta | Gís | Jóhanna M. Wiklund | Hara | Gylfi Víðisson | Guðbjörg Hilmarsdóttir | ||||
Halldórsdóttir's vote to eliminate | Já | Fjórflétta | Sigurður Ingimarsson | Gís | Alan Jones | Gís | Inga Sæland | ||||
Oscar's vote to eliminate | Alan Jones | Jóhanna M. Wiklund | Sigurður Ingimarsson | Jóhanna M. Wiklund | Alan Jones | Gylfi Víðisson | Inga Sæland | ||||
Eliminated | Sigurbjörg Tinna Gunnarsdóttir ? of 3 votes Majority |
Já 2 of 3 Votes Majority |
Fjórflétta 2 of 3 votes Majority |
Sigurður Ingimarsson 2 of 3 votes Majority |
Jóhanna M. Wiklund 2 of 3 votes Majority |
Alan Jones 2 of 3 votes Majority |
Gylfi Víðisson 2 of 3 votes Majority |
Inga Sæland 2 of 3 votes Majority |
Gís Public vote to save |
Guðbjörg Hilmarsdóttir Public vote to save |
Hara Public vote to win |
References
- "Jude Law moves on from Sienna with Icelandic X Factor star". Glamour UK. 2007-02-21. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
- "Sjónvarpsefni - Greinar - Ellý í Q4 = Versti dómari í sögu dómara?". Hugi.is. 2006. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
- "Faroese contestant wins Icelandic X-Factor". Iceland Review. 2007-04-10. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
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