X Factor star Lucy Spraggan has admitted X Factor bosses ordered her to remove her song Last Night from iTunes as it came close to humiliating last year's winners Little Mix in the charts.
Lucy Spraggan agreed to take down her song from iTunes (Picture: Xposurephotos.com)
Her admission came as the X Factor champions admitted they were now feeling 'more optimistic' about their debut single reaching No.1 this weekend following the move.
The girl's relief came as Spraggan, 20, exposed the behind the scenes wranglings after her original song threatened to stop Simon Cowell's girl band from the top spot when it zoomed up the chart to No.2 following her performance on Saturday night.
While the hopeful from Sheffield let slip she was following orders, show bosses said the move was all about a 'level playing field'.
'I was asked by the people behind The X Factor [to take it down],' said Spraggan.
'We discussed it and to make it fair to the other contestants. I took it down as soon as they asked.'
In the end she said she couldn't risk a gamble with her X Factor dream but admitted 'there's always going to be a part of me that's disappointed'.
She said: 'Obviously I was asked and I've obliged because you've got to do, what you've got to do, to get somewhere in life.'
Little Mix are now more confident of chart success (Picture: Xposurephotos.com)
For Little Mix they were breathing a sigh of relief that the path had been cleared.
Singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock, 19, told me: 'Yeah we're starting to get more optimistic now.'
'No obviously we don't want to jinx it. We were always sitting on the fence, right in the middle.'
Meanwhile, X Factor bosses maintained the unprecedented move was only to keep things fair for the other contestants and nothing to do with a chart race.
A spokesperson for the show said: 'All contestants have been asked to remove their recordings as it is essential that all the contestants are treated fairly during the competition and, where possible, receive the same exposure.'
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