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The X Factor is coming to an end. It s time to look back on 100 years of this talent show, and to celebrate its landmark moments.
1921: The very first X Factor opens at the Hammersmith Palais de Danse. Under its original title The Xylophone Factor, it features 50 different xylophonists performing popular numbers of the day.
The winner is the morbidly obese Mandy Lifeboat, with her rendition of I m Forever Blowing Bubbles.
1926: Novelist Virginia Woolf joins top comic Charlie Chaplin and leading American entrepreneur Al Capone on the panel of the X Factor
Interviewed just before she takes to the stage, she reveals that she has just suffered a bout of hay fever, she wants to follow her dream, her nan has just been run over and her beloved budgerigar has a sore left foot.