The Voice, series four, week four – and this time there’s none other than a 1D relative and the Saturdays’ equivalent of Pete Best on show.

By this stage judges are settling into their groove, quietly calculating and scheming over who’s on their teams and who they might just still need to win the competition.

So who would have them spinnin’ around (sorry, Kylie’s not on the show anymore, is she) and bashing their buzzers?

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The judges were leaving it late to make their minds up this week (BBC Pictures/Wall To Wall)

Would the session musician who has played with Ella Henderson, Union J and The Saturdays be chosen over the caretaker from Crawley, and would the cousin of One Direction’s Liam Payne (OMG OMG OMG) trump the dog walker from Essex?

Tim Arnold, former frontman of 90s Britpop band Jocasta (seriously, do The Voice’s producers just scour for almost-made-its to throw back into the lion’s den? Bring back Subo, I say…) had the judges’ hands hovering over the red buttons with his version of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill.

Fans were also a-quiver:

Ricky Wilson left it almost too late before beating the buzzer to give the 39-year-old his approval.

Some felt they had seen Arnold elsewhere…

Up next was another act for fans of those already on the edge of the industry – Kim Alvord, who narrowly missed out on getting into The Saturdays and supported them in front of 20,000 people at a Manchester gig , sang Paolo Nutini’s Scream (Funk My Life Up).

Kim Alvord (BBC PIctures/Wall To Wall)
Kim Alvord has joined Sir Tom Jones’s merry band (BBC PIctures/Wall To Wall)

Sir Tom Jones mirrored Ricky by leaving it to the last second to claim her for his team.

Sir Tom thought she may have been older because of the “mature” sound of her voice, telling her she had a “rich tone”.

Twitter fans felt she might have betrayed a lack of enthusiasm for only having the silver-haired crooner in her corner.

Some fans started questioning the gulf between the end of the songs and the pressing of buzzers:

Then it was the turn of “Dawn the Horn”. The 48-year-old found fans in some with her singing and trumpeting of Angie Stone’s Wish I Didn’t Miss You:

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Talk about blowing your own trumpet to get on TV (BBC Pictures/Wall To Wall)

While others thought she could have done more:

And one man preferred a different moniker for her…

Sadly she didn’t blow the judges away with her multi-talents and failed to cause a spin.

Next up was a relation of One Direction. Needless to say, Ross Harris found plenty of fans on Twitter…

One girl summed it up nicely…

But his drumming to Usher’s Good Kisser didn’t drum up (sorry) much support from the judges, with Kaiser Chief Ricky Wilson telling him it “didn’t push my button”.

Ross (BBC Pictures/Wall To Wall)
Ross Harris is not yet following Liam’s path to global superstardom (BBC Pictures/Wall To Wall)

Meanwhile Twitter fans were asking a question that has never before been uttered in the history of Saturday night telly…

Back to the acts…

Rita Ora turned for the Mac Bros – not brothers – and their mash-up of Bohemian Rhapsody, Johnny B Goode and Oh My God, which won fans over.

And then there was the first four-for of the night, when every judge turned round for Hollie Barrie’s rendition of Timber by Pitbull, featuring Kesha.

The 30-year-old dog walker from Essex chose Will.i.am after he told her she was just what he was looking for: “I need something to set the standard. Fire. I need someone to bring the fire.” Or something like that.

One fan had concerns over Barrie’s priorities as a music career came a step closer…

Still, if she wins she might be able to get some to walk the dogs for her.

Ciaran O’Driscoll hit the high notes, the low notes and everything in between with his version of the Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams

“Shut the front door!!! You took us on a rollercoaster homie,” was Will.i.am’s reaction, but O’Driscoll was sent packing after failing to persuade the judges of his talent.

But Morven Brown had Rita turning within seconds with her haunting rendition of Wilkinson’s Afterglow.

And Rita seemed to agree, telling her: “I am so happy that nobody else turned because you have a really captivating energy about you, and I felt like there was no-one else in the room.”

Oli Bond couldn’t persuade the judges to spin for him with his rather growly version of Jim Hendrix’s All Along The Watchtower, and the fans seemed to agree

Some, however, loved it.

Really, Luke Haines? Are you absolutely sure?

Another teenager to win the judges’ hearts was 16-year-old Rosa Lamele, who picked Sir Tom after he turned right at the end of her version of Disclosure’s White Noise.

The Twitterati were cheering her on:

Ricky admitted he shot himself in the foot by not spinning, saying: “I think what was stopping me is that I have too many girls.”

Sir Tom, the voice of experience, had a different view.

Then it was time for something a little different. Diversity activist Sharon Murphy, a 52-year-old from Ireland who grew up in an orphanage, left Sir Tom with tears in his eyes, Rita mouthing the words and Ricky slipping into a blissful euphoria with her mesmerising version of Bob Dylan’s Forever Young.

Sir Tom told her the song “touched me”, adding: “You need to have lived a while – I think that’s what I’m getting from you. I don’t think a young girl could sing like you sing because they haven’t lived long enough. I feel it from you.” Poor Ricky threw his hands up in the air and left her to choose the Welsh legend. Twitter fans were digging the Tom Jones mystique:

Then it was the time for a quick double-act – identical twins Shereen and Sophia, called… DTwinz.

Still, they managed to persuade three judges to turn with Diana King’s Shy Guy, picking Rita.

Some fans were confused.

There was a Welsh love-in when Sir Tom picked Blaenavon model Cai Williams, whose tight T-shirt and crazy hair divided fans. Well, not that much.

Poor old Stephen Bloy had his wife to blame after she put him up to enter The Voice. Fans were impressed with the 44-year-old caretaker’s rendition of Bring Him Home from Les Miserables, but the judges couldn’t be turned.

Some fans perhaps pitched their expectations too high…

Finally, oh finally – we had to wait for the very last act to see someone blub when they got picked.

Olivia Lawson was snaffled up by Rita after she wooed her with Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Fans, as always, were divided:

And so there you go – more acts for the judges, more songs for us to love or tear our hair out over. Some, however, are still confused as to why they’re so addicted.

Isn’t it obvious?