Westlife Criticized For Performance That Could Have Had Negative Effects On Suffers Of Epilepsy

You may think there’d be a great lots of reasons to criticize a Westlife performance on The X Factor schmaltz, hypocrisy and over-reliance on standing from a stool after a key change, for instance. Ofcom were more nervous about the physical effect the lasers employed by the show’s lighting dept could have on light-sensitive sufferers of epilepsy. And it seems their fears might’ve been rewarding as the light magnitude of the lasers in that show turned out to be 5 times as intense as they are legally permitted to be.

ITV swiftly analysed the pictures and now agree with the governing, pronouncing : We guaranteed that, for the remainder of The X Factor series, any guest performance that employed lasers as a part of the lighting effects would be predated with a warning. Could we also get a caution about the standard of the talent ITV?