X Factor Slammed For 'Staged' Audition Gatecrash Scenes
The X Factor has come under fire for being “desperate” and “staged” after last night’s episode saw a hopeful gatecrash another act’s audition.
Kirsty Murphy barged into girl group Remention’s audition after apparently becoming concerned that she wouldn’t get a chance to sing in front of the judges.
The 21-year-old dance teacher was praised by Simon Cowell for having the “balls” to pull off the stunt, with the judges allowing her to perform Alicia Keys’ ‘If I Ain’t Got You’.
Kirsty got three ‘yeses’, with Sharon Osbourne being the only judge to say no ‘due to pitching issues’.
Afterwards, Shazza said: “When she first came in I was a bit frightened actually. She walked in and came right over to the desk and I was thinking, ‘Oh my god, alert, alert!’
“But she was ballsy! It takes a lot to do that.”
Kirsty said of her behaviour: “I was with my mum and we saw a door labelled ‘Judges Room’ in front of us. I said to my mum, ‘I’m just going to go in there’.
“Me and mum were like ninjas and I thought while the security were distracted, this was my chance. I ran round the back of the audition space, through the curtain to where the producers were sat.
“I could see the judges but I can’t remember properly what I said to them, I remember I just broke down crying and kept asking them ‘please can I sing?‘”
Kirsty’s antics may have impressed the judges but viewers were left fuming by the stunt, taking to Twitter to call the whole thing a “set-up”:
X Factor is so staged ????
— Ellis ++® (@EllisLawson) September 17, 2016
X factor is so fake I feel personally insulted by that rubbish ????
— KWSB (@kwsbpodcast) September 17, 2016
I smell another set up #XFactor
— Sam Reece (@SamReece) September 17, 2016
it would be so typical of x factor if kirsty won the show considering her break in was so staged ???? getting the attention in early ???? #XFactor
— lydia (@lydia_mangan) September 17, 2016
If that Kirsty Murphy thing wasn’t all set up why were they filming her before she 'gatecrashed’ ???? #xfactor
— ✨ (@_xrachelizabeth) September 18, 2016
That Kirsty 'storming’ in to audition was so staged… no one exactly tried to stop her getting in ???? #XFactor
— Tom Boorman (@tomboorman) September 17, 2016