All the acts which reach the live finals sign a contract which takes them on the live tour, so for the next 8 months they are all fully paid performers either way (or if your JLS and refuse to sign on to it/buy out of it).
Its only a guess but I recon, Simon knew Lucie was starting to get good, and as it stands his 3 boys are the 3 finalists. If Lucie continues to get more confident and even better then she puts his full house final chances at risk. He knew the twins wouldnt have the lowest votes, so got rid of Lucie and boom bye bye biggest threat.
Now Ollie, Danyl and Jamie can all out perform; Lloyd, J+E and Stacie so the final is pretty much Simons.
J+E I think will go next week, they need to leave the show before the teenybopper fans get board and so that a novelty single can be released. Then after that the twins will just be a male version of the cheeky girls. Switching on x-mas lights for years to come, but doing nothing much else.
Either way, Danyl to win.
