Exclusive: The X Factor's squeaky clean new look might be proving a turn-off for viewers but behind the scenes it's a sex and booze fuelled party, says groups hopeful Mitsotu.
Mitsotu Picture Caption: The multi BAFTA-award winning entertainment show returns to our screens for an explosive ninth series. This year's exciting new judging panel will hit the road and travel the length and breadth of Britain for live auditions with potential singers. Dermot O'Leary returns to host the proceedings on ITV1 and will be on hand to celebrate with the successful acts and mop up the tears of those who aren't. And ITV2's Xtra Factor will be bringing viewers all the behind the scenes gossip, exclusive interviews with the judges and unforgettable auditions that will make you cry with laughter and cheer on the stars of tomorrow. Photographer: Ken McKay Copyright: THAMES TV/SYCO
Contestants were left to party hard during the bootcamp stages of the ITV show, Mitsotu singer James Collins told me in an exclusive interview.
'People were running down corridors naked,' he said. 'It was crazy. People were hooking up everywhere.
'Everyone was trying to show off their X Factor in all senses.'
James, from Harrow, north-west London, was shocked strict rules normally associated with Simon Cowell's show had gone out of the window. 'We set our own rules,' he said of the bootcamp orgies at Liverpool's Jury's Inn hotel.
Sharon Osbourne joined Louis Walsh in Las Vegas to decide which groups would go through to the live shows (Picture: ITV)
But he revealed the show's bosses ordered an end to the boozing and bonking when the contest moved to the judge's house phase in Las Vegas. Prince Harry's naked shenanigans in Sin City prompted judge Louis Walsh to order a curfew to rein in contestants' bad behaviour.
'There was a "Prince Harry warning",' said James, 22. 'Louis told us not to party.' As for his bandmates – Holly Cooper and Jimmy Essex, both, 23 – James said they went on the show because 'we needed a big break.'
'We've all had careers. I've danced on Janet Jackson's tour,' he said.
And the band's name? It's an acronym of the pals' tattoos, which read: 'Music is the soul of the universe,' he said.
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