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Is MBC sabotaging The Five's chances at The X Factor Arabia crown?

Published June 11th, 2015 - 12:49 GMT
The Five performing "While We're Young" on The X Factor Arabia. (YouTube)
The Five performing "While We're Young" on The X Factor Arabia. (YouTube)

Oh. Em. Gee.

The Five will be voted out of The X Factor Arabia if MBC doesn't do something about it, and fast. Like NOW! 

Saturday night saw the boy band move onto next week's finals, but Fivers everywhere were furious with MBC TV, the network that airs the show, after complaining that the voting lines were completely out of reach when they called in to vote for their fave act to stay in the competition.

The band is being mentored by celeb judge Donia Samir Ghanem, who kindly delivered the disappointed fans' frustrations to MBC by retweeting their complaints.

Amongst the dozens of tweets, one tweep named Lina wrote, " please open the lines we want to vote for the five!!! :(."

The Five are definitely one of the favorites to win the singing competition. But now that their chance at claiming the winning title is being jeopardized, will they have as glittering a career as the world's biggest boy band One Direction, who lost out to Matt Cardle in The X Factor UK?

That could well happen, seeing as our boys were compared to the British lads since day one. The new kids on the block auditioned for celebrity judges Elissa, Ragheb Alama and Donia as solo acts, before they teamed them up to form what we now know (and love) as "The 5."

That's exactly how Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson and now ex member Zayn Malik formed 1D, and went on to become the most well-known names in the music biz. In other words, those guys are proof that you don't need to win to make it in showbiz. 

However, surely MBC must explain what is going "wrong" with the voting lines? And if some sort of meddling proves to have been the reason behind The Five's loss, will they be forced to do the voting all over again?

The Five are made up of Egyptian Ahmed Hassan, Moroccan Adel Echibi, Lebanese Kazem Chamas and the Algerian duo Said Karmouz and BMD (Mohamed Bouhezza).

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