Kandy Rain voted off 'The X Factor'

Kandy Rain have become the first act to be voted off The X Factor.

The girlband found themselves in the bottom two with Rachel Adedeji after the first public vote of the series. Both acts then had to perform a song of their choice to win the judges' votes.

Adedeji was the first act to perform and sang 'Nobody Knows' by Pink. Kandy Rain then performed the Christina Aguilera anthem 'Fighter'.

The judges then had to decide who to save. Louis Walsh did not appear on tonight's show following the death of Stephen Gately. However, his vote was transferred to Kandy Rain as he is mentoring them.

Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole decided to send home Kandy Rain, leaving Simon Cowell with the deciding vote. He explained that he wanted to see more of Kandy Rain and decided to send home Adedeji.

As both acts had two judges' votes each, the decision went to deadlock. The act with the least amount of public votes was Kandy Rain, meaning that they were eliminated from the competition.

After hearing the decision, Kandy Rain said: "We couldn't have done any better really. We were really hoping everyone would give us a second chance. Every bit was our favourite bit, we just really enjoyed it."

The X Factor continues next Saturday at 8pm on ITV1.