A WIDNES singer and her girl group won a standing ovation from X Factor judge Simon Cowell - but were gutted to be sent home after the six chair challenge turned into a fiasco on Sunday.

The girls performed One Direction’s Drag Me Down and the audience and judges loved them!

Simon said: “You girls have talent, to throw you out would be crazy. You’ve got to keep these girls in Louis.”

Nicole Scherzinger said: “You look beautiful and sound great. You have something really strong.”

But mentor Louis Walsh kept changing his mind about which groups to take to the judges’ houses and left the girls on a ‘rollercoaster of emotions’.

Presenter Dermott O’Leary said: “Poor Girl Next Door – they’re in, out, in, out.”

Britani Humphries, of Kingsbury Road, said: “Everyone loved us.

“Even Simon Cowell was on his feet shouting to bring us back.

“Everyone went absolutely crazy.

“It was a rollercoaster of emotions.”

The 17-year-old Cronton Sixth Form College music student said despite the disappointment, the girls determined to succeed.

“We know it was the best we have ever performed,” she said.

“There were 5,000 people watching us live and they all wanted us back.

“We want a public wild card.

“Simon loves us and that is an achievement. We’d love him to sign us for a record deal.”

With her group – Katie Hammond, 17, Saskia Rosimus, 19, and Annabelle Pike, 17 – they’re already planning live gigs.

The girls will be performing at the British Musical Firework Championships in Southport on Friday.

“Our dream is still alive,” added Britani, whose group was formed in 2015 by music mogul Nigel Martin-Smith.

“We all write our own material. We’re going to get out there and gig as much as we can.

“We are recording our own music video.

“Hopefully someone will spot us. We’re not going to give up.

“If Simon Cowell wants to ring us up that would be great.”