X Factor girl group 4th Power are forced to change their name – despite ALREADY starting promo work

Every year this happens. Every ruddy year. A band on* The X Factor* goes all the way through to the Boot Camp stage and then suddenly gets slapped with a legal letter warning them to change their name or face a copyright infringement case.

That's exactly what's happened to girl group 4th Power, the sisters from the Philippines, who have now been forced to change their name to 4th Impact to avoid upsetting the original 4th Power. Who presumably are pretty big elsewhere in the world.

A source told the Sun: "It came as a bit of a shock. The homework should have been done."

It's a bit awkward though, as the official X Factor Twitter account was still using the band's old name as recently as two days ago.

No-one's told whoever runs their own Twitter account either – it's still @4thPowerUK and has more than 6,500 followers and counting.

It's thought the girls are going to feature heavily in this weekend's shows, so let's hope they get this sorted quickly.

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