X Factor evictee Gifty Louise has accused Nicole Scherzinger of being two-faced
The singer was booted off the show last night and she's not happy
NICOLE SCHERZINGER is out of her seat more than she’s in it on X Factor.
But GIFTY LOUISE AGYEMAN feels betrayed by the former Pussycat Doll star after she gave her sing-off performance a standing ovation, only to vote to send her home moments later.
Both Nicole and SHARON OSBOURNE, who had also stood up to applaud Gifty, backed LOUIS WALSH’s girl band FOUR OF DIAMONDS — a result that even visibly shocked the group.
Gifty said: “I was a little bit surprised. On Xtra Factor Nicole kind of turned around and said Gifty shouldn’t have gone home, but you voted for me to go out..?”
The singer, the first of SIMON COWELL's Girls to leave, feels hard done by for getting the boot in her debut sing-off.
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Gifty admitted: “I was a bit confused by that. RYAN LAWRIE’s been in the bottom three three times, Four of Diamonds have been in it twice — I’ve been in it once and they all vote for me to go.”
Even her own mentor slipped up and accidentally voted to send her home before realising his error.
But Gifty has accused to the panel of being tactical with their votes, rather than basing their choice on the vocals.
She explained: “Maybe it was to get rid of the competition? That’s what the show is about. You want to protect your own people. I don’t know what’s going through their head, but that’s what I thought anyway.”
Gifty blamed Simon’s song choice for her exit, which she’d tried to get changed when she learned it would be her third time covering FIFTH HARMONY, a US band signed to Simon’s Syco label.
Of the unfamiliar I’m in Love With a Monster track she said: “I didn’t want to do the song from the get go. I didn’t want to come across as some kind of tribute act to Fifth Harmony.
“After Saturday’s performance I went to Simon and said I’m going home because that song was not the right one for me.”
Gifty’s obvious displeasure at being voted out led many viewers to dub her a sore loser.
But the youngster explained she was just trying to control her emotions.
She confessed: “If I’d opened my mouth to speak I would have just let it all out and cried.
“I think I do have a resting b*** face. I honestly just can’t help it.”
Diamonds are new little 'fix'
THE X Factor is at the centre of another “fix” row after girlband FOUR OF DIAMONDS were surprisingly saved on Sunday.
Its mechanical jukebox wheel “randomly” chose Boyband vs Girlband as this week’s theme just minutes after the girls, were spared at the expense of GIFTY LOUISE.
It followed Fright Night being conveniently selected as the theme for Halloween weekend.
Viewers took to Twitter to brand the ITV series “fake” and “fixed”. One wrote: “So the jukebox casually lands on fright night on Halloween and the weak girlband are saved in time for girlband week . . . hmm #XFactor”.
Another said: “They save the girlband then COINCIDENTALLY the jukebox lands on Boyband vs Girlband?! That’s it, I’m done #fix”.
Four Of Diamonds are 6/4 favourites for the axe this week, with SAARA AALTO at 5/2, according to SunBets. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Tom's up with the larks . . .
TOM RILEY’s gritty one-off ITV drama Dark Heart is full of murky moments, but filming wasn’t quite so gloomy thanks to his fun-loving co-star.
The show is based on author ADAM CREED’s DI Staffe books, which follow troubled detective inspector Will Wagstaffe, who is haunted by the unsolved murder of his parents.
Speaking ahead of the drama’s launch on ITV Encore on November 9, Tom told how he would feel the weight of heavy emotional storylines and was grateful for some on-set laughs with co-star CHARLOTTE RILEY.
He said: “Charlotte, who’s very funny and very silly, had the same mindset as I did between takes.
“She wanted to switch off and d*** about, dancing and joking, which is useful and helpful.”
Tom’s mood as the DI was also lifted because the stars kept getting interrupted by drunken passers-by and stag dos as they filmed in some of London’s busiest locations on a Saturday night.
The actor, above, said: “Trying to deal with people who are drunk and trying to leer into the camera as you go past, it gave the whole thing a sort of guerilla shoot feel.
“It was like, ‘We’ve got ten minutes to get this scene before that stag comes out of that pub’. ”
SOAPBOX
ZAK DINGLE lets his fists do the talking in tonight’s EMMERDALE when he confronts Jermaine after suspecting he’s been cheating on Belle with Megan.
His ex-wife Lisa is furious that Zak has resorted to violence – especially when Megan explains what has really been going on.
Zak tries to make amends with Lisa, and as old feelings come to the surface they end up kissing.
It’s not the only fight in the village tonight. Ross and Dan also come to blows, leaving Dan knocked out cold.
In HOLBY CITY, Guy is unpopular when he offers to help untrustworthy Tristan with a personal problem.
And Dominic tries his best to better his own reputation, but quickly comes unstuck.
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