You know that big warm thing in the sky that we've seen for, cor, at least a few days in a row now? Well, forget about it again because X Factor is back tonight and that basically means it's Christmas.

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You might as well start putting the tree up now.

X Factor - as well as doing all of that changing people's lives malarky - is, after all, about finding us a song that we can hear over and over and over again while we wander aimlessly from shop to shop trying to find something half decent for the mother-in-law.

The good news is it means this gem can be dug up again:

And you can just start saying Merry Christmas now

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You might as well get Home Alone ready to watch later today

The fact that X Factor is back tonight on TV makes me realise how close we are until the Christmas season. How exciting ???❤️☕️

— Molly (@mollytricker_) August 27, 2016

No one would judge if you ate a mince pie while watching X Factor

Essentially you'll blink and miss September, October and November

Well, cheers to that thought.

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The X Factor starts tonight at 8:00pm and continues Sunday at 8:00pm on ITV

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