Anyone who watched the X Factor launch on Saturday night (if you didn’t, sort yourself out and tow the line this week please), might remember three young ladies with blonde hair, American flag hotpants and a bit of vacant look on their faces.
You may also recall Mel B was pretty scathing about them, much like she was about the majority of other hopefuls stood on the stage with wobbling knees.
But girl band Tae Blondo have piped up and claimed that they were told by X Factor peeps what to sing – Guns n Roses’ Sweet Child O’ Mine – and to squeeze into the matching hotpants.
Beth Wilson from the group reckons this was done so they could be cruelly mocked by Mel B, who they’d also been told to talk about while they were filmed waiting to go into the audition.
“Mel told us ‘You look like you belong in a Playboy mansion’ and said the song was dated,” Beth told The Sun. “Yet they were the two things they knew we would do.
“The producers also asked us to talk about Mel B, then edited it to look as if we were scared.
“They’ve obviously done it to make Mel B live up to her reputation as Scary Spice. It was clearly a set up.”
Of course X Factor has insisted this is NOT true: “Contestants make their own decisions about what to wear and what to sing,” an official mouth commented.
This goes against what Pink impersonator and generally terrifying wannabe with deep rooted anger issues, Zoe Alexander, claimed too.
After her violent outburst, when she was smashed into cameras and bared her teeth like a dangerous dog with lipstick on, she insisted that she was told to sing the Pink song by the show’s producers.
So, there we have it, apparently two acts who didn’t make it through to the next round are bitter and X Factor is manipulated to make for a better show. Next you’ll be telling us Prince Harry’s been pictured naked in a room full of girls in Las Vegas!