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Is 16 years old too young for X-Factor?

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Is 16 years old too young for X-Factor?

16 year old Luke Lucas from Westgate on Sea would love to be in the finals of X-Factor. Instead he finds himself on the front page of the Sun under the headline EXPLOITED. He seemed to cope rather badly with the pressure of singing in front of Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams at the judges house stage in Los Angeles. Should he have had his parents with him?

Is Gary Barlow right that 16 is too young. All the other boys he put through to the final are actually men - they are 18, 20, 21 and 22.

Kelly Rowland has chosen Janet and Amelia Lily two 16 year old girls for the final and there are three 16 year old boys in Nu Vibe one of Tulisa's groups.

Did you suffer from baby blues? If so, did you get the help you needed?

Thousands of new mums are suffering in silence because their postnatal depression goes untreated, according to a report out today. The study, for the charity 4Children, says 35,000 mothers every year in England and Wales struggle with symptoms and do not get professional help.

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  • Mon 3 Oct 2011 09:00