The favorite to win The X Factor, Joe McElderry, will go head-to-head in the final with Olly Murs.

This evening, the pair will now battle it out for the title and the chance to win a recording contract and, in all likelihood, the Christmas number one.

After show-stopping performances of Dance With My Father, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word, and Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me in a duet with George Michael, Joe, the Geordie 18-year-old went through last night.

“I can’t believe it. I feel numb. It feels amazing,” Joe, the firm favorite to win the show, said while looked thrilled after a tense evening.

But it was Olly Murs, from Essex, and his mentor Simon Cowell who looked truly stunned after he beat single mother Stacey Solomon to the final.

He said, “It’s so great but Stacey was amazing.”

(article and photo source: Mail Online)