SHIRLEY van driver Ben Haenow has smoothly progressed to the next round of the X Factor.
The 29-year-old didn't have an agonising wait as his name was the second read out by Dermot O'Leary on tonight's results show.
Ben's rendition of Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water clearly did enough to impress the public in week one.
Trendy-looking duo Blonde Electra were the first act for this year's scrapheap.
Stephanie Nala and Overload Generation fought it out in the sing-off for a chance to make the final 14, with the boyband sent home after it went to deadlock.
