Bring your family to work week! Fleur East and Lauren Platt ace X Factor performances with relatives on stage

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Bring your family to work week! Fleur East and Lauren Platt ace X Factor performances with relatives on stage

It's Whitney Houston vs. Elton John on this week of The X Factor, but it seemed to also be 'Bring your family to work' day.

Lauren Platt opened the show with How Do I Know by Whitney, and her brother Lewis was in the backing dancing group during the performance.

Later, Fleur East invited her mother and sister onstage to perform as she covered Whitney's version of Chaka Khan's hit I'm Every Woman.

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Sibling support: Lauren Platt's brother Lewis was among her back-up dancers, all of which were wearing clothing from hot fashion brand Jaded London, on The X Factor

Lauren Platt belts out Whitney Houston's 'How Will I Know'

Lauren started her performance, like usual, by slowing it down to more of a ballad than a party song.

She had a tricky time with her dance move(s) in a previous show but she seemed to fare better with just a bit of coordinated walking with her backing dancers including her younger brother.

Mel B and Cheryl Fernandez-Versini gave her standing ovation before Louis Walsh said: 'We know you can sing but now we know you can dance.'

'I think this is your best performance, you gave us your personality,' said Mel.

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Picked up: Lauren earned praise for her performance of Whitney's How Do I Know?

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stage for the performance.

Cheryl et al. loved Fleur East's version of 'I'm Every Woman'

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Tamed: Fleur East went for more relaxed curls for her performance of I'm Every Woman

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Family affair: Fleur's mother (R) and sister (L) joined her on stage

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Loving it: Cheryl gets her groove on during the song

'Wowzer, Simon you are so lucky to have her,' Mel enthused, 'You are every woman girl!'

'It would be an absolute disaster if you weren't in the final,' Cheryl continued in the judges praise for Fleur.

'I absolutely love you' said Simon, 'That's a tough song and I love that you had your family on there.

'I want to see you in the final.'

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Eighties: The singer certainly looked like she stepped out of a retro Whitney music video

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A lot to prove: Ben Haenow performed Whitney's version of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You

Ben Haenow felt out of his comfort zone last week with a big band, but he's feeling even more pressure with performing Whitney's version of I Will Always Love You.

I love that you took a risk, it paid off,' Louis said.

'For me taking on this particular song, you didn't give me enough light and shade. You just sang it like a rock song. I didn't think that song should be sung like that,' Mel criticised.

'At this point in the competition to take a risk like that it's crazy, that song didn't do anything for me tonight,' Cheryl said agreeing with Mel.

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Mixed reviews: Cheryl and Mel didn't think he lived up to the expectations of the song

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Big song: Andrea Faustini gave a stand out performance of Whitney Houston's I Have Nothing

Simon stuck by his artist of course saying that he was more than happy with his performance and the risk taken.

Only The Young returned this week with the first Elton John song, performing a party version of Something About The Way You Look Tonight.

'I want to join their group! I loved it,' Mel enthused to the band.

This week's one of those themes where it could hinder you but I think you did a great versions of Elton,' Cheryl said.

Simon didn't agree and thought after their performance they were not safe in the competition - though he did urge people to vote.

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Still not happy: Despite a flawless vocal, Simon said Andrea still wasn't 'perfe

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