Barlow picks his fights with Rylan, not Louis

X FACTOR judges Gary Barlow and Louis Walsh have seemingly put their feud behind them with a shake of hands on Saturday night’s live show.

At the start of the show presenter Dermot O’Leary asked Barlow if he had forgivenWalsh.

He replied: “It is a new day Louis, shake hands,” to cheers from the audience.

The pair had not spoken since Barlow’s act, Carolynne Poole, was booted off the show following a controversial “deadlock” situation last Sunday night which saw the Take That star storm off.

He was angered by Poole’s departure, which came as a result ofWalsh’s indecision, with the public vote saving Rylan Clark instead.

Barlow and Clark appeared to be at daggers drawn after the singer mocked the judge, launching into the start of a Take That song before performing 1990s dance classic Groove Is In The Heart, originally by Deee-Lite.

After the performance, Barlow hit back: “If this was a competition for how many songs you can kill in two minutes you would win.

“I’m never going to like this. I hear from everybody backstage you’re a lovely guy and I’m sure that if we sat and had a drink together I may well enjoy it for about 30 seconds.”

And last night Melanie Masson became the second contestant to leave the show after the judges’vote went to deadlock again.

Gary Barlow and Nicole Scherzinger voted to keep Masson but Tulisa Contostavlos and Louis Walsh saved boyband District 3.

Host Dermot O’Leary was forced to turn to the public vote again and Masson was sent home after performing Stay With Me by Lorraine Ellison. S T RO N G competition rewires the brain in ways which echo the words of A bba hit the Winner Takes It A ll, a study has found.

In mouse “turf wars”, repeated defeats reduced activity in the frontal cortex of the brain.

Boosted activity in the same region was seen in mice who continually emerged the winner in territorial disputes.

The frontal cor tex is the “higher” area of the brain controlling decision making and planning.

A connection breakdown between this region and the “lower” brainstem which co-ordinates motor and sensory signals also occurred in defeated mice.

A sa result, they were likely to be less defensive and more fearful and anxious.

The findings may explain why repeated knocks can lead both mice and humans to become passive and depressed.

Victorious mice – and perhaps humans too – tend to get increasingly aggressive and dominant.

The neural effects of winning and losing seem to be reflected in the lyrics of the A bba song, which include the line: “The winner takes it all, the loser’s standing small.”

Senior researcher Dr Tamara Franklin, from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Monterotondo, Italy, said: “Our findings explain how repeated winning and losing reprograms the brain to prepare for future encounters.

“By studying brain changes induced by repeated victory or defeat, we can learn about the brain circuits that control depression-like behaviour.”

The study involved territorial engagements between male laboratory mice.

Scientists measured electrical activity of the animal’s brains and looked at a molecular marker of neural rewiring.

Long- term changes in the brain’s functional connectivity were seen to result from winning or losing social encounters.