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MOVE OVER LILY! The X Factor fans tip Emily Middlemas to record this year’s song for John Lewis’s Christmas ad

Fans took to Twitter to suggest the 17-year-old is snapped up by the retailer

X Factor hopeful Emily Middlemas has been tipped to sing this year's song for John Lewis's Christmas ad

THE X Factor contestant Emily Middlemas has been tipped to sing this year’s Christmas ad song for John Lewis.

The 17-year-old from Scotland wowed the judges tonight with her acoustic version of Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Want To Have Fun.

 X Factor hopeful Emily Middlemas has been tipped to sing this year's song for John Lewis's Christmas ad
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X Factor hopeful Emily Middlemas has been tipped to sing this year's song for John Lewis's Christmas adCredit: Syco / Thames / Dymond

And fans took to Twitter to suggest that she should be snapped up by the retail giant for their Christmas ad campaign.

One wrote: “Fiver on Emily Middlemass to sing the Christmas John Lewis advert,” while another added: "@johnlewisretail Emily x factor should be the singer in your next Xmas advert!”

And one other viewer wrote, “John Lewis Christmas number one” as one of their followers replied: “She so made that her own.”

John Lewis has been known for its iconic Christmas adverts in recent years, including last year’s Man on the Moon campaign which saw a little girl looking at a lonely man on the moon through her telescope, with Norwegian artist singing a cover of Oasis’s Half the World Away.

The year before, Tom Odell covered John Lennon's 'Real Love' as it told the tale of Monty the penguin who was looking for love.

And in 2013, Lily Allen covered Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know for The Bear and the Hare advert.

 Emily made it through the Six Chair Challenge with her version of Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want To Have Fun
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Emily made it through the Six Chair Challenge with her version of Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want To Have FunCredit: Syco / Thames / Dymond

Emily first auditioned for X Factor back in 2014 but didn’t get any further than the Judges’ Houses.

This year she gets to give it another shot after she made it through tonight’s Six Chair Challenge after impressing the judges with her version of the Eighties classic.

She also received a standing ovation from the audience at the SSE Arena, Wembley as her proud parents looked on.

Nicole Scherzinger told her she would buy it if it was a single and Simon Cowell, who is mentoring the girls this year, said it was the best performance he had heard that day.

He insisted on giving her one of the six seats but it meant that Jordina Miller had to give hers up and go home.

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