X Factor favourite Joe McElderry revealed he was feeling "big time pressure", ahead of his duet with George Michael in this weekend's grand final.
Stacey Solomon, Joe McElderry and Olly Murs will battle it out to win the show after surviving two months of live performances every week.
Geordie McElderry, 18, told GMTV: "Practically everyone's going to be watching it. The hype of it is just massive this year."
He added he was "overwhelmed" when he returned home with his mentor Cheryl Cole on Monday.
"I couldn't believe how much support I had," he said.
Asked about his hordes of female fans outside the X Factor house, McElderry said: "It takes a bit of getting used to. It's strange, but in a good way."
Solomon, a 20-year-old single mother from Dagenham, will take to the stage for a duet with Michael Buble in Saturday's show.
She joked on GMTV that she was the "pig of Dagenham" after having a pizza "with everything on it" named after her.
But she said the show had been everything she had imagined and more.
"Everything you can think of ever having and imagining, I've done loads of stuff. I'm the luckiest girl ever.
"Everything I've done has been so cool.
"I look back and I think 'Oh no'. I write it all down, because I think 'What if I forget?'"
She added: "It's nice to see people who probably wouldn't really have an opportunity to do anything like this, getting to do stuff like this. That's so cool, I'd watch it."
Murs, who will be singing with Robbie Williams, said the Angels star left a message on his phone earlier this week suggesting they perform a dance together on the weekend's show.
The 25-year-old Essex native, who once came among the bottom two in the public vote, said: "I don't take the public vote for granted.
"I didn't think for the life of me that each week I was going to get through. I just thought at some point I was going to be in the bottom two.
"I just bounced back and did the best I could. I just knuckled down and worked hard."
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