Alexandra Burke Wins Simon Cowell’s X Factor

I haven’t been following X Factor, Simon Cowell’s popular reality competition talent show in Britain. The finale was tonight, crowning the winner, Alexandra Burke.

Upon hearing the news, Alexandra nearly begins hyperventilating, almost completely losing her sh*t. You must watch:

She wins a recording contract, and her winning single, Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”, will be available (across the pond) for download tonight, and in stores next week.

Simon Cowell can’t get enough of “Hallelujah”. His operatic boyband Il Divo just released their version, and now the winner of X Factor will release it as a “Christmas Single” (I’m thinking Cohen didn’t exactly have the holidays, or even religion in mind when he wrote it, but whatever).

Watch what a giant gospel choir and a pile of over-the-top runs adds to “Hallelujah” (Me: Nothing) after the jump…

ETA: By request, I added Aleandra’s duet with Beyonce…

Duet with Beyonce

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